Still Waiting for Net Neutrality Repeal to Destroy Internet, as Liberals Insisted

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Ever notice how the lying, fear-mongering demagogues of the left always end up being proven wrong by facts, science, and reality? Ever notice how they never want to follow up on their past propaganda?



So why did everything liberals told us turn out to be dead wrong this time? Could it be that letting the government illegally hijack the Internet under Obama was the only real threat to high-quality Internet that ever actually existed, and that repealing it was the restoration of sanity, the free markets that made the Internet great in the first place, and the rule of law, as conservatives said from the beginning?

THE INTERNET AS WE KNOW IT SUPPOSEDLY ENDED A YEAR AGO, ACCORDING TO CNN AND OTHER OUTLETS

You might not have noticed it, but the internet as we knew it ended a year ago today, at least according to the predictive powers-that-be at CNN and other media organizations.

That’s because on Dec. 14, 2017, the Federal Communications Commission ended the 2015 Open Internet Order, aka the net neutrality regulations implemented by the Obama administration.

Despite assurances from FCC Chairman Ajit Pai that the changes weren’t ever “going to destroy the internet,” hysterical heads prevailed — leading CNN to blast the front page headline “End of the internet as we know it.”

Net Neutrality was an attempt to do to the Internet what government did to the telephone industry for so many decades...stagnate and cripple all innovation, quality, and advancement (what government always does) to push a phony crusade for "equality."

OBAMA’S NET-NEUTRALITY NOSTALGIA FOR WHEN THINGS WERE ROTTEN

From the time my father was born in the 1920s to the time I went to college in the 1970s, the consumer experience of telephone service barely changed. You could have plugged a 1920s telephone into the 1970s telephone network and it would have worked just fine.

Sure, there were a few changes. Long distance operators were replaced by direct dialing. Push-buttons supplanted the old rotary dial. Other than that, the experience of making a telephone call barely changed for 50 years. Fifty years! New features? Hey, the Princess Phone has a lighted dial! As for consumers enjoying a Moore’s Law decline in prices? Fuggedaboudit.

I ask, “How many of you think the smartphone you are carrying is still going to be supported 50 years from now?” They laugh. “How would you like it you weren’t allowed to have new features until everyone on the planet gets a phone?” Eyes roll.

I tell them about a paper that was published in the late 1970s — when I had my first job as an engineer at Bell Laboratories — that explained why you could never send data down a telephone line at a rate faster than 9,600 bits per second. More quizzical looks from generation broadband. You’re putting us on, right?

This is where connecting the past to different possible futures gets interesting.

An entire generation has grown up with no knowledge of what it was like to live under the government sanctioned telecom monopoly known as the Bell System. Today, we have choices unimaginable during that 50-year era. So why did stasis last so long?

The answer is the number one killer of innovation — government-enforced “fairness.”

 

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I suspect that all most DEMOCRATS know about so-called "Net Neutrality" is that Obama wanted it.

 

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This is a serious question. Well, questions I suppose.

How old are you and what do you use the internet for?