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Image of the Day: U.S. Internet Speeds Skyrocketed After Ending Failed Title II "Net Neutrality" Experiment

CFIF often highlights how the Biden Administration's bizarre decision to resurrect failed Title II "Net Neutrality" internet regulation, which caused private broadband investment to decline for the first time ever outside of a recession during its brief experiment at the end of the Obama Administration, is a terrible idea that will only punish consumers if allowed to take effect.

Here's what happened after that brief experiment was repealed under the Trump Administration and Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman Ajit Pai - internet speeds skyrocketed despite late-night comedians' and left-wing activists' warnings that the internet was doomed:

[caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="515"] Internet Speeds Post-"Net Neutrality"[/caption]

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April 19, 2024 • 09:51 AM

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Fishy Is As Fishy Does, Mr. President Print
By CFIF Staff
Thursday, August 06 2009
Citizen Alert! President Obama needs your help, and we want to help you help him.

Citizen Alert! President Obama needs your help, and we want to help you help him.

Although we do not usually involve ourselves in causes that may require stooling on neighbors and relatives, this is a special White House request, and we are thus sure that all civil liberty and privacy concerns have been adequately vetted by Justice Department counsel.

This nation faces an August crisis, you see. Unruly mobs are being bused around the country by villainous insurance companies to spread “fishy disinformation” about the President’s health care reform plan and disrupt the town hall meetings of hapless Congresspeeps who had to attend a seminar to find out what is in the legislation before they went home, but really don’t care since all they want is a ride on the new Gulfstream G5s that Speaker Pelosi has ordered up for congressional travel.

Even though it is never explained how Big Insurance gets such unruly mobs on the bus, HHS Secretary Sibelius has admonished us not to sweat the details, so we won’t. These are really, really insidious unruly mobs, because as Senator Barbara Boxer has observed, they are way too well dressed to be legitimate citizens peaceably assembling to seek a redress of grievances.

At any rate, the President requests that “if you get an email or see something on the web about health insurance reform that seems fishy, send it to

Notable Quote   
 
"Remember when progressives said the Trump Administration's rollback of net neutrality would break the internet? Federal Communications Commission Chair Jessica Rosenworcel now concedes this was wrong, yet she plans to reclaim political control over the internet anyway to stop a parade of new and highly doubtful horribles.The FCC on Thursday is expected to vote to reclassify broadband providers as…[more]
 
 
— Wall Street Journal Editorial Board
 
Liberty Poll   

If TikTok's data collection or manipulation under Chinese ownership is the grave danger that our government says it is (and it may well be), then wouldn't the prudent action be to ban it immediately rather than some time down the road?