Net neutrality ends — so click your mouse, don’t push the panic button

Published December 18, 2017 5:01am ET



Do you remember way back in spring 2015, when several Internet providers prevented people from streaming Netflix? No, neither do we. That’s because it didn’t happen, and nothing like it has ever happened.

Nor will it happen in 2018, despite that dreary, histrionic wailing you’ve heard this week about the Federal Communications Commission’s decision to roll back so-called “net neutrality,” an onerous and intrusive, but thankfully short-lived Obama-era regulation. You cannot, or at least should not, believe about 90 percent of what is being sloppily reported about net neutrality by journalists and then spread widely by ignorant entertainers such as Jimmy Kimmel.

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