Ron Arnold: Who created the phony mass movement for net neutrality?

Last month, when Federal Communications Commission Chairman Julius Genachowski won approval of his “net neutrality” rules on a party-line 3-2 vote — supposedly to protect the freewheeling Internet from corporate predators intent on running it their way — they got slammed from all sides. Republicans, including FCC Commissioner Robert McDowell, blasted the rules as Democrat over-reach.

Democrats, including Sen. Al Franken of Minnesota, called the rules woefully inadequate to protect the public from Internet service providers giving stripped-down performance to the masses and premium broadband to the wealthy, according to Wired magazine coverage.