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Donald Trump's FCC makes the internet free again.

We will explain so-called net neutrality since apparently nobody has any idea what it is.

Then, Cabot Phillips and Paul Bogew in the panel of deplorables to discuss deregulation, sex and the deregulation of sex.

Finally, the mailbag. I'm Michael Knowles and this is the Michael Knowles Show.

Trump just deregulated the internet. This vote just came out. Good stuff. Very, very coffefe.

Now, I realize nobody knows anything about net neutrality. And, well, actually, that isn't true.

It's that nobody who supports net neutrality knows anything about it. So, very quickly, here's what you need to know.

Today, there was an FCC vote to repeal Obama-era regulations on the internet that the judiciary has consistently struck down.

The vote, led by FCC Chairman Ajit Pye, who himself actually was appointed to the FCC by Barack Obama, means that broadband providers will now be able to offer people a wider variety of service options and price points and have more incentive to build networks, especially in rural areas and underserved areas.

How awful, I know it's so terrifying. Net neutrality, that phrase, is an orwellian named regulation that empowers the government to force broadband networks to treat all data traveling over their networks in the same way.

Downloading high-speed porn, uploading your child's book report. Internet providers can't offer different plans for different purposes under net neutrality, which is now struck down. How did all of this begin?

In 2005, the FCC declared that broadcast internet, the internet that we all use, broadband internet rather, is specifically not a telecommunication service, and therefore it is not subject to common carrier rules and rates and services and regulations.

This made total sense. The freewheeling, unregulated nature of the internet is why it evolved so rapidly, so efficiently to serve customer demands ever since Al Gore invented it, it's really blown up.

The line in the internet between successful investment and failure is very thin, so it makes a lot of sense not to regulate this thing to death.

Things got a little murky in 2008, so even though the FCC explicitly acknowledged three years earlier that broadband is not a telecommunication service, it issued guidelines which in 2008 it bizarrely started to enforce.

So there are just guidelines, you don't have to follow them. In 2008 for some reason they changed their mind and started forcing these companies to follow guidelines that it itself said they don't have to.

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