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Can we finally move on from net neutrality?

By Casey Given
Published June 12, 2018 7:19pm ET
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Can we finally move on from net neutrality?
FILE - In this Dec. 14, 2017 file photo, Lindsay Chestnut of Baltimore holds a sign that reads "I like My Internet Like I Like my Country: Free & Open" as she protests near the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), in Washington where the FCC was scheduled to meet and vote on net neutrality. On Tuesday, March 13, 2018, a California lawmaker introduced legislation that looks to maintain net-neutrality rules recently scuttled by the Federal Communications Commission, setting up a likely showdown with influential internet companies and, if his bill passes, with the Trump administration in court. | (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File)

On Monday, the Federal Communication Commission’s Restoring Internet Freedom Order went into effect reversing Obama-era net neutrality rules. For months, pundits and politicians on the left have tried to whip the public into a frenzy over this highly technical matter, portraying the reversal as hailing a new Wild West era for the World Wide Web. This could not be any further from the truth.

[Also read: ‘Net neutrality’ is dead; long live the Internet]

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