Explaining Net Neutrality

There's a great deal of nonsense being spouted lately about New Neutrality and the coming horror of it's undoing.  Net Neutrality sounds like some bit of equality on the internet.  The left picked a good name when they came up with Net Neutrality, but the reality is that the concept has little to do with equality.  The issue really is Net Control.  From the creation of the internet until 2015, the internet was unregulated.  People, companies and ideas competed on the net with no overarching body or law telling them what they could or could not do.  Since the left hates anything that is not regulated by the government, they found a problem where there was none.  As a result, they demanded internet regulation which they named Net Neutrality.  Net Neutrality has the government pick winners and losers on the net.  Internet providers like cable companies or others that sell high speed internet service were pushed into the government's regulatory net.  The government tells those companies under Net Neutrality how they are to charge for their services.  This bars innovation and slows growth.  Remember dial-up internet connections?  Somehow that slow service was replaced by faster and faster service across America without Net Neutrality.  Today, however, the Democrats and the others on the left who want the government to regulate everything are telling us that unless the regulations continue, the entire internet will fall apart.  Washington has decided that the content providers should hold an advantage over those who provide the actual internet connection, but that will be lost if Net Neutrality goes.

It's worth keeping in mind the history of the internet and how well it has developed and functioned the next time someone tells you about how horrible life on Earth will be without Net neutrality.