Leave The Never-Was-Neutral Net Alone

By Doug Hass (December 5, 2017, 12:37 PM EST) -- Internet service providers and their customers have debated the concepts of network neutrality, tiered access, data prioritization and limited "unlimited" services since the era of dial-up bulletin board systems decades ago. Although technologies have changed considerably over the years and content has proven to be the driver of the increasingly competitive internet access market (and not vice versa), the dream of creating a free and unfettered internet utopia through "net neutrality" regulation has persisted anyway. But net neutrality is less a definable term than one view of how things ought to be on the internet — though not how they are or ever were. Federal Communications Commission Chairman Ajit Pai bills his recent proposal to turn back the clock to 2010 as a "repeal" of 2015 net neutrality rules. It really just imposes his own version of net neutrality through impenetrable and ultimately ineffectual disclosures that both harm providers and confuse users. If the FCC wants to turn back the clock, it should repeal the disclosure requirements in December, too....

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