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ELI5: Why do ISPs want to throttle Netflix?

I know coporations are greedy and will milk you for every penny they can but this type of blatant disregard for their customers can't be good for them.  

What would happen if we all canceled our service for a month?
gpt
Flawed analogy time!

Imagine the internet is a bunch of roads, built and maintained by ISPs.  Also imagine Netflix is a company that sells awesome noodles.

A bunch of people want noodles, which they buy from Netflix.  Netflix noodle trucks are chugging up and down the roads, business is booming, Netflix profits soaring.

But there are so many Netflix noodle trucks on the roads that the ISPs need to resurface some, and widen others, just to keep all the other traffic flowing.  This costs them a lot of cash, which impacts *their* profits.

So they say to Netflix: "Give us some money for each of your trucks, 'cos we're spending a bunch on maintaining these roads, plus also your profits = huge! xxx"

Netflix replies: "Get fucked, lol"

More and more people want some of those sweet Netflix noodles.  So Netflix is out buying more trucks, while doing that thing everyone who gets a bunch of cash in films does, where they throw it up in the air while lying on the bed laughing.

So the ISPs say: "Well if you won't give us some of your noodle profit moneys, we'll put a bunch of guys out, one on every road, who'll pull your trucks over and delay them, so your noodles are always cold and shitty by the time they get to your customers.  Yeah.  How do you like us now?"

And Netflix are all: "Road neutrality!  There must be laws to say that no traffic gets pulled over and griefed, because reasons (and profit, shhhhh)."

And all the noodle customers are all: "Bad ISPs want us to eat cold noodles!  Road neutrality!"

And  Netflix are all like: "We're not corporate bad guys, looking to make so much money we ge to do that thing everyone who gets a bunch of cash in films does, where they throw it up in the air while lying on the bed laughing, honest.  We're all about the principle!"

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Basically the whole thing is about who pays for the infrastructure of the internet, and who profits from the benefits of that infrastructure being improved.

Netflix has a great service, but streaming is only possible if the network infrastructure has the bandwidth to carry all that data without constant pausing and buffering.

Netflix happens to be lucky that the principle of net neutrality is one that most internet users are behind.  But don't think that Netflix are the heroes here, and the ISPs the baddies.  It's all about the $$$ for both.