The internet, gps, cell phones, drones...coupled with the forced elimination of landlines, the USPS, and cash, bares everyone's every action, interaction, word, movement, sale, purchase, negotiation, relationship, and viewpoint, every second of every day, to the MIC/1%ers/rulingclass. The NSA has videos of you having sex, taking a dump, disciplining your children, surfing porn...maybe they'll never use it or even review it, but they have already admitted that they have it "just in case". Only the limping, bleeding 2nd Amendment stands in the way (and only in 48 states now) of their quest for complete control and domination of the entire populace.
There has always been peering. There have been CDNs for a long time. With a CDN, the WWW site puts servers directly on the network of the ISPs. This saves internet bandwidth and makes access to the content fast. Yahoo! was doing this years ago, and had this "premium" bandwidth all along. Comcast offers colocation services. If I want to, I could put a server on their network, too. Or there are companies that specialize in providing CDN servers for an array of customers. Amazon does this for cheap. Peering is GREAT for the Internet. It's far cheaper than Transit type connections and provides a better quality of service than relying on the random-ish topology of the Internet.
Here's a pretty good explanation of peering and transit as they relate to netflix and ISPs. http://qz.com/176522/netflix-house-of-cards-premiere-is-a-big-test-of-how-video-gets-to-you/
