The Internet Is Faster Without Net Neutrality

12/18/18
 
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from Rush Limbaugh,
12/18/18:

RUSH: There’s this glorious story. Washington Examiner: “A Year After Net Neutrality’s Demise, the Internet Is Faster.” The “internet apocalypse” these young tech blogger Millennials feared “has not happened. It’s really been “unremarkable,” this year without net neutrality. Yet Bernie Sanders “warned that losing net neutrality would threaten representative government. GLAAD feared gays and lesbians would be targeted” without net neutrality. “Planned Parenthood weighed in” and said they were threatened if net neutrality went away.

But “[a] new report by Ookla, a sister company to PC Magazine,” they do speed tests and so forth, “shows that download speeds” of the internet, on average nationwide “have increased 35.8% across the country” since net neutrality bit the dust. “The fastest Internet is actually in Kansas City,” and the reason is that’s where they’ve installed more Google Fiber than anywhere else. Google Fiber’s gigabit internet, and it’s wicked fast

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