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Democratic principles, from the freedom of speech, to fair business practices, rely on Net neutrality, i.e. equal access to communication infrastructure and services. While a number of national and international regulations stipulate Net neutrality, the actual enforcement is challenging as regulators have to collect and analyze a large amount of network measurements, and pinpoint cases of neutrality violations. Through a large-scale distributed crowdsourced measurements campaign, the Agency for Communication Networks and Services of the Republic of Slovenia (AKOS) has acquired a massive dataset of Internet performance measurements in Slovenia. In this work we analyze about one million multi-dimensional data records gathered by the AKOS Test Net measurement system and identify the practices, such as port blocking, that might violate Net neutrality principles. We then chart the limitations of the employed measurement approach and propose a holistic multi-stakeholder approach ensuring high quality measurement data upon which reliable Net neutrality violation inferences should be based.