David Nelson
Net neutrality is on death row — Why we should let it die
[Commentary] In 2015 the Federal Communications Commission under then-President Obama launched Network Neutrality putting broadband under the same Title II regulatory framework as telephone companies a century earlier. In an open letter that year President Obama wrote; “Today’s FCC decision will protect innovation and create a level playing field for the next generation of entrepreneurs…” The word innovation doesn’t often come to mind when you’re talking about a regulated utility which is just what the government wanted to achieve with the FCC decision.