A lot of people and a lot of businesses were cheering the FCC’s predictable 3-to-2 vote to classify the internet as a utility, and thus apply Title II regulations which govern traditional telecommunications services. The dawn of net neutrality is at hand, or so say the proponents.
I can forgive a lot of the younger folks not understanding what Title II enables the FCC to do. These regulations were written and implemented in the 1930s, signed into law as the Communications Act of 1934 when telephones were the leading edge of consumer technology. That was only 81 years ago, surely those ...