Michael Hiltzik: The FCC's move to restore net neutrality is overdue, and possibly too late
If you're unhappy with the high cost and low quality of your internet service — and who isn't? — the reason is easy to pinpoint.
It can be found in an ill-considered, cynical and overtly pro-business decision in 2018 by the Trump-controlled Federal Communications Commission to abdicate its authority over broadband internet service and repeal rules guaranteeing network neutrality, a core principle of the open internet.
As I wrote when the change was first proposed by the FCC's Republican chair, the former telecommunications company lawyer Ajit Pai, consumers would inevitably feel the pain.
Internet service would become more expensive, and users would have less choice. Internet service would be dominated by a few big content providers, with smaller and potentially more innovative providers shouldered out of the way.
Every one of those predictions came true,
