Now that the Federal Communications Commission’s repeal of net neutrality is beginning to take effect, Washington has closed in on the rarest of all its feats: relinquishing power over a realm it once controlled. Just a few procedural hurdles away from victory, supporters of consumer choice and innovation should celebrate accordingly.

Net neutrality was always a good name for a bad policy. Advocates in the Obama administration promised an “open” and “equal” Internet in which Internet service providers would “treat you like everyone else.” Unfortunately, equality under net neutrality was a euphemism for conformity, imposed from above.