FCC Chairman Calls Net Neutrality a 'Mistake' (theverge.com)

FCC chairman Ajit Pai said today that net neutrality was "a mistake" and that the commission is now "on track" to return to a much lighter style of regulation. The Verge adds: "Our new approach injected tremendous uncertainty into the broadband market," Pai said during a speech at Mobile World Congress this afternoon. "And uncertainty is the enemy of growth." Pai has long been opposed to net neutrality and voted against the proposal when it came up in 2015. While he hasn't specifically stated that he plans to reverse the order now that he's chairman, today's speech suggests pretty clearly that he's aiming to. [...] Pai's argument is that internet providers were doing just fine under the old rules and that the new ones have hurt investment.

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#MAGA

[mythosaz]

Clearly we're going to Make America Great Again by getting rid of net neutrality.

"I don't know what Net Neutrality is..."

[hymie!]

"...but Obama was for it, so I know I'm against it."

How were consumers not dong fine???

[SuperKendall]

You cannot come up with a single example of how consumers were hurt before net neutrality regulations went into effect. Why? Because there is no example. Indeed the examples that most NN advocates hate the most, like Binge-On, came into being AFTER net neutrality regulations went into effect.

The only example I can think of was some Comcast thing that happened a whole ago - but that Comcase backed out of quickly.

So again, you claim consumers were harmed. Who and when?