For years, net neutrality advocates warned that without government intervention, Internet-service providers would rig traffic flow for their own services or sell traffic priority to the highest bidder.

But they’ve had few examples of such abuse to point to, forced to settle on trying to whip up opposition with drab cases including a Canadian firm blocking access to a labor-union website during a strike and a North Carolina internet provider blocking a popular voice-over IP phone service.

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