To be fair this is mostly a problem between ISPs, or with ISPs fleecing their (business) customers. A restrictive peering policy for a CDN is just batshit stupid, and the CDNs know this and will peer with anything that doesn't run away fast enough. You do have to meet the CDNs at some PoP though, and that getting-there part is generally the real issue. Anything last mile is just… ugh.

Many ISPs have been lobbying for a tax on "content generators" which they say they would use to pay for infrastructure upgrades (or line the pockets of their shareholders who knows).

The EU has a consultation on it, although I think it'll fail to get traction.

> The EU has a consultation on it, although I think it'll fail to get traction.

Thank god it'll fail to get traction.

Many ISPs have been receiving boatloads of government subsidies to build out infrastructure, and they have very little to show for it. There is no reason to believe this would be any different.