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No, Netflix doesn't have any control over the path the data takes.
Netflix begs to differ.
http://blog.streamingmedia.com/2014/02/netflix-video-presentation-details-open-connect-cdn-strategy.html
I listened to the video in that article and, while it does say Netflix gets routing information, all it says about Netflix routing traffic is that Netflix will select the server (or "cached server", which in context of the speech is a server with the subset of streams that are more popular) to serve a given client for a given stream, there was nothing about Netflix picking the routing from the end-user to the selected server.
So, again, it is Netflix selecting the particular server (point A) to serve the stream to the client (point B), but Netflix does not pick the route between point A and Point B. However, Netflix is strategically deploying servers (more point A's at strategic locations. either in the ISP's own network for "Open Connection" or connected to the ISP as in the Comcast/Netflix agreement) so that the ISPs should have more rational ("shorter", so to speak) paths between point A and point B.
But again, Netflix picks an endpoint and the customer is the other endpoint, and it is up to the ISP to route the traffic, so the Netflix traffic is still subject to the routing that the ISP uses for that particular stream of packets, the equipment of the ISP, the capacity along the particular route, and that is beyond Netflix control.
However, I would think that if Netflix is getting routing information, Netflix could go back to that ISP if the routing appears to be irrational.