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Thursday, December 14, 2017

It's Official -- the Sky Has Fallen -- Net Neutrality Ends

If you listen to political shows or read the news, you surely know by now that the FCC voted to end the Obama era regulations that put the internet under government control  Those regulations, which the left branded as "Net Neutrality" were rescinded on a vote of 3 to 2.  So what does it mean?

According to the Democrats and the mainstream media, the world is coming to an end with the demise of Net Neutrality.  That's way too dramatic and also quite false.

Actually what has happened is that the internet today is just the same as it was in 2015 before the bureaucrats from Obama pushed through the Net Neutrality regulations.  You remember 2015, don't you.  At that point, people were unable to use the internet and there were a myriad of problems for the few who actually got internet access.  No, seriously, in 2015 both the functioning of the internet and the methods of access to the internet were fine.  There were no problems that were solved by Net Neutrality.  The only problems were imaginary.

Moving forward, the marketplace will control the internet rather than a few government bureaucrats in DC.  This should encourage faster development of the internet.  It should mean more productive changes.  Rather than slow and stodgy, the interest should be sleek and agile.

Don't expect to hear this reality from the media.  They love bureaucracies.  They're not that big on freedom.

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