Exactly one year ago I was at walking out of the room at the FCC (~1:12 of this video) because some maniac called in a bomb threat to delay the vote repealing Obama's order regulating the Internet like a public utility.
The Dems/media told us without Obama's regulations -- which were adopted in 2015 -- the evil phone and cable companies would ruin the Internet. It was totally false.
What was true? The Obama rules had a significant negative impact on investment that has since returned to trend, which is great news for deployment and closing the broadband gap.
The Obama rules also imposed totally different and far more stringent privacy rules on ISPs than on Google and Facebook, effectively protecting the tech giants from competition in the advertising space. That was simply corrupt.
But the Dems/media are shameless. They said putting the ISPs back under the same rules as the edge giants would mean your browser history would be for sale. They even did crowdfunding campaigns to buy browser histories of members of Congress. Who got that money, anyway?
BTW the post-merger AT&T could become a real advertising competitor to Google and Facebook. Obama's rules would have prevented that.
