At its most basic level, members of both major parties support the concept of net neutrality.
A free and open internet is not only a staple of the modern economy and marketplace of ideas, but it is also increasingly used for educational and health purposes as well. There is bipartisan support for the idea that internet service providers shouldn’t prioritize or block certain internet traffic at the expense of others. In fact, I’ve called for bipartisan net neutrality legislation for years and believe there would be strong support in Congress to pass legislation that fits this conventional definition.
But as is true with many other typically non-controversial issues, Democrats have taken the idea of net neutrality and morphed it into a partisan excuse to increase the government’s control of the internet. The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) did this in 2015 under President Obama when it passed its Open Internet Order to assert broad new government powers over the........