Government regulators who killed net neutrality became top cable industry lobbyists

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3b617b1aa931331a428e597c78e43b9e.jpgThe LA Times points out something worth repeating: net neutrality was really killed back in 2002, when the FCC Chairman Michael Powell reclassified cable modem services as "information services" rather than "telecommunications services." This effectively moved Internet service providers beyond FCC regulation and led to Tuesday's controversial decision. It created a time bomb that was bound to explode sooner or later. And now it has. Net neutrality is dead and soon ISPs will start deciding what services they will allow to run fast and what they opt to slow down — and how much sites might have to pay to move from the latter category to the former.

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