I'm not very sympathetic to some who are hyperventilating over this.<p>Yes, Net Neutrality is important.<p>But if you're on Team Pepsi, you shouldn't be very happy when your captain makes things happen due to technicalities and the ability to skirt Congress; Team Coke is going to be in charge <i>at some point</i> and all of these easily-implemented changes are so easily undone.<p>So now Team Coke is going to be running things, and the very means by which Team Pepsi got what they wanted will quite possibly be the same means by which they are removed.<p>The hand-wringing is over the wrong thing, and years too late. The focus should have been in placing proper legislative protections in place when the political environment was favorable.<p>This possibility was predictable and, given enough time, inevitable.
Net-neutrality is already being skirted by zero-rating. Why do you think AT&T wanted to buy Time Warner? We should instead focus on ISP monopolies and trust in the free market to quell ISP throttling abuse.
I'm thinking of the day that I create a video to demonstrate the effects of this (eg. only getting faster access to YouTube because I paid some special fee to my ISP). Thanks Trump!!! I recall seeing some doomsday video about this. Will have to compare that to what transpires.