Editing Net neutrality (section)

===Peering discrimination===
There is disagreement about whether [[peering]] is a net neutrality issue.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2014-02-24/netflixs-deal-with-comcast-isnt-about-net-neutrality-except-that-it-is|title=Netflix's Deal With Comcast Isn't About Net Neutrality—Except That It Is|publisher=[[Bloomberg News|Bloomberg]]|author=Joshua Brustein|date=24 February 2014|access-date=18 November 2014|work=BusinessWeek|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140915030202/http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2014-02-24/netflixs-deal-with-comcast-isnt-about-net-neutrality-except-that-it-is|archive-date=15 September 2014}}</ref> In the first quarter of 2014, streaming website Netflix reached an arrangement with ISP Comcast to improve the quality of its service to Netflix clients with a peering agreement whereby Netflix delivered data directly to the Comcast network.<ref>{{cite news|author=Waniata, Ryan|url=https://www.digitaltrends.com/home-theater/comcast-jumps-netflix-speed-rankings-payola-style-agreement|title=Comcast Jumps up in Netflix Speed Rankings after Payola-style Agreement|work=Digital Trends|date=14 April 2014|access-date=1 February 2023|archive-date=1 February 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230201031744/https://www.digitaltrends.com/home-theater/comcast-jumps-netflix-speed-rankings-payola-style-agreement/|url-status=live}}</ref> This arrangement was made in response to increasingly slow connection speeds through Comcast over the course of 2013, where average speeds dropped by over 25% of their values a year before to an all-time low. After the deal was struck in January 2014, the Netflix speed index recorded a 66% increase. Netflix agreed to a similar deal with [[Verizon]] in 2014, after Verizon [[DSL]] customers' connection speed dropped to less than 1&nbsp;Mbit/s early in the year. Netflix spoke out against this deal with a controversial statement delivered to all Verizon customers experiencing low connection speeds, using the Netflix client.<ref>{{cite news|author=Waniata, Ryan|url=https://www.digitaltrends.com/home-theater/netflix-calls-verizon-right-big-red-screen|title=Netflix Calls Verizon out on the Big Red Screen [Update: Netflix Backs Off]|work=Digital Trends|date=9 June 2014|access-date=1 February 2023|archive-date=1 February 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230201031743/https://www.digitaltrends.com/home-theater/netflix-calls-verizon-right-big-red-screen/|url-status=live}}</ref> This sparked an internal debate between the two companies that led to Verizon's obtaining a [[cease and desist]] order on 5 June 2014, that forced Netflix to stop displaying this message.<!--[[User:Kvng/RTH]]-->