Once the government expands its power into a new area, it rarely recedes. One big reason why is that whenever efforts are made to roll back government authority, powerful interests scream bloody murder and fight against its repeal. This blowback was famously displayed in 2017 when the Trump administration repealed a set of Obama-era internet regulations known as “net neutrality.”

Net neutrality, simply put, restricted the ability of internet service providers to differentiate between different types of content and traffic. For example, an internet provider prioritizing emergency services transmissions over cat videos loading on YouTube would be a violation of net neutrality.