It shouldn’t come as much of a surprise, really. We’ve been expecting this for quite some time now. On December 14, 2017, the Federal Communications Commission led by Chairman Ajit Pai voted 3-2 to repeal a bunch of regulations put in place to prevent internet service providers from discriminating against different kinds of traffic on the internet. This decision represents the end of net neutrality as we know it, at least for the time being. But the internet is a highly sophisticated democratic instrument, not to mention an industry that transacts in the billions every year. It doesn’t just come to an end simply because a bunch of bureaucrats behind government desks conspired with a few companies with deep pockets to help each other make some money. No, the internet lives on. Here’s how the concept of a free and open internet will continue to exist despite the repelation of these net neutrality regulations.

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