A year after net neutrality’s demise, the Internet is faster

By Philip Wegmann

Published December 14, 2018 5:53pm ET

A year after net neutrality’s demise, the Internet is faster — A demonstrator opposed to the roll back of net neutrality rules holds a sign outside the Federal Communications Commission headquarters ahead of an open commission meeting in Washington, D.C., on Thursday, Dec. 14, 2017. | (Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg)

They said we would be neanderthals by now, savages scraping ourselves with pieces of broken pottery every time our cat videos wouldn’t buffer. But the Internet apocalypse hasn’t happened.

It has been remarkably unremarkable without net neutrality, one year after Federal Communications Commission Chairman Ajit Pai killed the Obama-era Internet rule that required service providers to treat each piece of content identically.