{"id":26407,"date":"2024-04-18T11:47:42","date_gmt":"2024-04-18T15:47:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=26407"},"modified":"2024-04-19T09:51:19","modified_gmt":"2024-04-19T13:51:19","slug":"image-of-the-day-u-s-internet-speeds-skyrocketed-after-ending-failed-net-neutrality-experiment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/26407\/image-of-the-day-u-s-internet-speeds-skyrocketed-after-ending-failed-net-neutrality-experiment\/","title":{"rendered":"Image of the Day:  U.S. Internet Speeds Skyrocketed After Ending Failed Title II &#8220;Net Neutrality&#8221; Experiment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CFIF often <a href=\"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/index.php\/press-room\/6758-cfif-statement-opposing-fcc-plan-to-resurrect-failed-title-ii-regulation-of-internet\">highlights<\/a> how the Biden Administration&#8217;s bizarre decision to resurrect failed Title II &#8220;Net Neutrality&#8221; 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.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s what happened after that brief experiment was repealed under the Trump Administration and Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman Ajit Pai &#8211; internet speeds skyrocketed despite late-night comedians&#8217; and left-wing activists&#8217; <a href=\"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/index.php\/commentary\/62-technology-and-telecom\/4978-net-neutrality-pandemic-vindicates-fcc-chairman-ajit-pai\">warnings<\/a> that the internet was doomed:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/mcusercontent.com\/dc8d30edd7976d2ddf9c2bf96\/images\/8d0c6771-47b1-f003-b585-afd47f416738.png\" alt=\"Internet Speeds Post-\" width=\"515\" height=\"365\" \/> Internet Speeds Post-&#8220;Net Neutrality&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CFIF often highlights how the Biden Administration&#8217;s bizarre decision to resurrect failed Title II &#8220;Net Neutrality&#8221; 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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1388,188,308,148,1229],"class_list":["post-26407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-broadband","tag-fcc","tag-internet","tag-net-neutrality","tag-title-ii"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26407","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26407"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26407\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26413,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26407\/revisions\/26413"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}