Yes, because business weren’t trying to actively bend the entire net to their will before. That’s like saying you didn’t need a Kevlar vest before you were being shot at, so you don’t need one now.

The internet as we know and love evolved in the complete absence of the *need* of those protections.

It takes additional engineering effort to violate net neutrality principles, and in the early days of the internet, there was no incentive to put forth this effort. This is because ISPs just provided the “on-ramp” to…

Huh. I thought JLaw was out? Too much time in makeup, or something?