Anyone who followed the 2017 debate over so-called “net neutrality” regulations, the rules that bind internet service providers, will remember countless dire warnings about how the Trump administration’s rollback of the rules supposedly endangered the internet as we know it…
Meanwhile, elected officials such as Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) said that rolling back net neutrality would mean that “the internet and its free exchange of information as we have come to know it will cease to exist.” Legacy media “news” articles, not opinion pieces, breathlessly repeated these warnings, with CNN even making such hysteria its homepage banner.
None of this has aged particularly well.