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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Here's what happened after that brief experiment was repealed under the Trump Administration and Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman Ajit Pai - internet speeds skyrocketed despite late-night comedians' and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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Wednesday, June 02 2010

A Los Angeles County resident is suing Google Inc. claiming it supplied unsafe directions that caused her to be injured by a motorist.
 
Lauren Rosenberg is seeking more than $100,000 in U.S. District Court in Utah after she used her phone to download walking directions from one end of Park City to the other.  According to the lawsuit, Google Maps led her to walk on a busy road without sidewalks that was "not reasonably safe for pedestrians."  Rosenberg is seeking compensation for unspecified "severe" injuries and lost wages, in addition to punitive damages.
 
Rosenberg also is suing the motorist she says hit her.
 
—Source:  The Wall Street Journal

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"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
 
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