In advance of a full repeal, Trump's FCC is undermining net neutrality.
The FCC will have to vote, but with the board's two top Democrats gone, it's almost a foregone conclusion that net neutrality's days are numbered. They've already dropped inquiries into the practice of zero-rating, looked at askance by proponents of net neutrality who see the practice—in which a provider doesn't count content from favored sites against a consumer's data cap—as a prelude to the total teardown of net neutrality, T minus three months.
Toppling net neutrality is just part of the pro-corporate agenda Trump's web regulators have in mind. They're also likely to oppose efforts by municipalities to develop high-speed public networks and support consolidation by mega-merger.
Corporations will flourish while venture capitalists "freak out" that start-ups won't be treated fairly.
