The freak-out over net neutrality falls somewhere between the Y2K paranoia and the Mayan Calendar on the Chicken Little scale. CNN declared the passage of the 2017 Restoring Internet Freedom Order the “End of the internet as we know it.” The official Twitter account of Senate Democrats Tweeted, “If we don’t save net neutrality, you’ll get the internet one word at a time,” with large spaces between each word. The rhetoric was so overheated a bomb threat was called in to the FCC meeting where the rollback of net neutrality rules was passed.
Of course, the catastrophe never came to pass. Today, more Americans are connected to faster internet than ever before. In the wake of surging traffic caused by the Covid-19 pandemic, U.S. networks shined against global counterparts, many of which are regulated as utilities.
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