Liberal credibility in tatters as predicted Apocalypse fails to materialize upon the demise of net neutrality

Washington Examiner:
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.

“No big changes,” reads a Wired headline atop an article explaining that “broadband providers didn't make any drastic new moves to block or cripple the delivery of content after the FCC's order revoking its Obama-era net neutrality protections took effect.”

Everything has been fine, in other words. Someone should check on the folks below, though. They didn’t just think that the Internet would go dark. They thought that corporations would conspire to create a digital fiefdom where access to information was throttled and people couldn’t communicate freely except by carrier pigeon.

Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., warned that losing net neutrality would threaten representative government.
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Those who predicted catrosphy will be shocked to learn that the internet is actually faster without net neutrality.

As a conservative, I am not surprised.  Providing internet service is a competitive business and download speeds were already increasing before net neutrality and they are doing more than fine without it.  When it comes to economics and business the geeks appear uneducated on the benefits of a free market.

That is something to remember when Democrats fret over the demise of Obamacare.

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