Net neutrality hurts health care and helps porn, Republican senator claims

“Chairman Pai, I would encourage you and the commission to revisit that order and to rescind it in its entirety,” Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) said during an FCC oversight hearing held by the Senate Commerce Committee yesterday. “I believe you would have the support of a majority of this committee and substantial support in Congress.”

Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wisc.) agreed that net neutrality rules harm ISP investment and offered a lengthy analogy to explain why.

Johnson said he wants to cut through the “rhetoric, slogans, and buzzwords,” before saying that enforcing net neutrality rules is like letting too many people use a bridge and ruin people’s lawns. Net neutrality rules, he said, also give pornography the same level of network access as remote medical services.

If you’re not sure what Net Neutrality is or why it’s important, this will help.

Spoiler: it’s not hurting health care or helping porn.

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