How Net Neutrality Actually Ended Long Before This Week -- NYT

Tangentially, see Facebook’s New Political Algorithms Increase Tension With Publishers (NYT) and Scoop: Facebook to meet GOP leaders to hash out censorship complaints (Axios)

"“History shows us that companies that have the technical capacity to do things, the business incentive to do them and the legal right — they will take advantage of what is made available to them,” said Jessica Rosenworcel, an F.C.C. commissioner and a Democrat, who voted against the repeal of net neutrality last year.

By repealing neutrality rules, the government has just given our online overlords that legal right, she cautioned.

“Now they can block websites and censor online content,” Ms. Rosenworcel said. “That doesn’t make me feel good — and if you rely on the internet to consume or create, it shouldn’t make you feel good, either.”"

How Net Neutrality Actually Ended Long Before This Week -- NYT