Throttled by Thuggee

 I blinked as it started to dawn on me, just what Barry was saying...

“It’s their little game,” he said. “Suddenly, your internet’s not going so fast, but you can’t actually prove that it’s slower. Since the numbers look okay, you probably just have to ‘upgrade’ to the next package. Which is more expensive, of course.”

He took a swig of his beer.

“How can they do that?” I asked.

He shrugged, as if to say, Corporations, man.