Net Neutrality Returns to America. What’s the Big Deal?

Well, just listen to John Oliver

Photo owned by Author, from the satire book “ABCs for MAGA Kids”

“ISPs should not be able to engage in any sort of f*ckery that limits or manipulates the choices you make online.” — John Oliver

On Thursday, the FCC voted 3–2 to treat broadband as a public utility, much like water and electricity, aiming to regulate internet access more stringently.

This move reinstates the net neutrality rules first set under Obama in 2015 and repealed in 2017 during Trump’s presidency, by this, well, vacuous sell-out:

Ajit Pai, screengrab on Youtube DailyCaller

That’s former FCC Chairman Ajit Pai, who shortly before repealing net neutrality, decided to post this “satirical” video through the conservative news site, the Daily Caller.

It raised a few questions:

1. Why would a government employee advocate for a position exclusively through a biased media outlet?
2. Why would he dress up as Santa and propagate numerous near-lies in a video titled “7 things you can still do on the internet after net neutrality”?
3. Why would such a humorless greasy representative of big business have the…