content: If net neutrality rules were only adopted by the FCC in 2010 how were they able to stop ISPs prior to then?   Many times it was the threat of implementing net neutrality that stopped them.  Previously the FCC had open internet rules but they were more a voluntary agreement between ISPs and the FCC then binding laws.   Basically the ISPs agreed to follow the rules and the FCC agreed to not move ISPs into the title II catagory.   It worked for a while then Comcast decided they were going to block bit torrent.. The FCC said that violated the rules and tried to force Comcast to lift the ban at which point the courts said they didn't have the authority to do so without title II classification.  In other words,  ISPs violated the agreement so the FCC moved ISPs to title II (which they should have been from day one, since the ISPs claim to be common carriers which means they are under title II) to enforce the rules. Now the FCC has given up so they have no power at all over the ISPs.  It's going to turn into a shit storm.