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New Federal Communications Commission chairman Tom Wheeler may have started his term off on a pro-consumer note, but his latest remarks could throw a wrench into that initial image. While taking questions at Ohio State University, Wheeler delivered a pair of seemingly opposing answers: he declared his support for net neutrality, but then endorsed a marketplace that seemingly doesnt follow those very rules. He then said that a two-sided market could develop, Netflix might say, Ill pay in order to make sure that my subscriber might receive the best possible transmission of this movie. Rather than explicitly suggesting that Netflix could pay an internet provider to give its customers better service — which would violate tenets of net neutrality by discriminating against certain companies or services — his remarks could be interpreted as simply suggesting that it build out a better content delivery infrastructure of its own.