How 'net neutrality' became a hot-button issue

Though network neutrality started off more than a decade ago as an insight into how to make networks work most efficiently, it has taken on much larger social and political dimensions lately. The issue has emerged as an anti-monopoly rallying point and even a focus for "resistance" to the Trump Administration. "Any time the cable companies and the Trump administration are on one side, it looks good for companies to be on the other side," Boston Law School professor Daniel Lyons said. Once President Donald Trump took office, net neutrality became one of his first targets as part of broader government deregulation. The Federal Communications Commission Chairman he appointed, Ajit Pai, made rollback a top priority. And thus net neutrality became increasingly political.