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What happened is that the ISPs and Big Tech played the corpo war game, using their various pawns, and that the ISPs trounced Silicon Valley by making it assault their own well defended positions.
Google and their ilk got routed because they couldn't bear the infrastructure costs of replacing them or had the savvy to play the regulatory game against world class professionals (at least at the time). Google Fiber was therefore a nonstarter.
And the other avenue of attack, the political one, though it generated a lot of noise (on Big Tech's platforms mind you), didn't really manage to dislodge the strong grip of the ISPs on their regulatory apparatus, fruit of decades of revolving door and cosy deep state relationships.
Ultimately Big Tech doesn't care anymore, they can just pay the tribute with their ginormous profits and not play a losing battle. Perhaps this will eventually be revisited, but I doubt you will see as much effusion now that the public isn't as friendly to them as they have become The Man as well.
There are some interesting footnotes to this if you're are the sort of person who was interested in network neutrality before it was SV agitprop, and therefore most likely still are (people like France's own Benjamin Bayard) but as said by others the interesting parts of the debate have moved on from the network peering into the politics of centralized platforms as the Internet has been consolidated into Big Tech's walled gardens.
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