By Gordon Hull
As part of its war on all things done during the Obama administration, the Trump administration is planning to do away with Net Neutrality rules. Those rules, announced in early 2015, established that Internet Service Providers must treat all traffic across their networks equally. Absent such rules, they could favor their own content over that of their competitors, favor content providers who are willing and able to pay extra for faster service, disfavor content that they don’t like (in the only bit of possible karmic justice here, many of them could make it much harder for radical white terrorists to organize online), and so forth. The “FCCorporate” in my title is deliberate, and it’s of course designed to indicate regulatory capture. But it also indicates something particularly insidious: regulatory capture by way of gaslighting. First, a review of net neutrality.
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