Dead and gone

 Net Neutality was dead, and soon it will be gone.

The FCC under then-Chair Rosenworcel had changed the rules to make ISPs regulated as "telecommunications services" instead of "information services," so that the FCC could regulate ISPs more thoroughly.

But the courts had paused the ruling, and in January overruled the Commission, thanks to the Supreme Court's Loper decision tossing the "Chevron deference" precedent, which said that the courts should generally defer to agencies' interpretation of ambiguous laws.

 Now Chairperson Carr has promised to remove the rule, so it will be not only dead but also gone.

Those who've been following along may remember that this is not the first time that a Democratic-led Commission has classified ISPs as a telecommunications service, only to have the subsequent Republican-led Commission undo the classification. The Commission made the change in 2015, and reversed it in 2017.