Imposing Net-Neutrality Regulations Would Be a Step Backward

Net neutrality is a sometimes well-intentioned, but always misguided attempt to regulate the internet under the guise of fairness and equality. Except for a brief moment during the Obama administration, the U.S. has always embraced light-handed regulation for the internet. This approach has served us well. Today 95% of American adults use the internet and U.S. broadband providers outperformed their more-regulated European peers during the pandemic.

But now Joe Biden’s Federal Communications Commission is poised to abandon this approach and impose its vision of how the internet should work. Given the importance of the internet to American businesses and citizens’ everyday lives, it’s crucial to assess the implications of reversing the tried and true light-handed approach.

Read the full article at the Orlando Sentinel.