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title: "A Super-Wrong Way To Understand Net Neutrality"
summary: |-
  Comparisons to electricity and cable TV are off base.
date: "2014-11-18"
issues: ["Broadband Access and Regulation"]
authors: ["Robert D. Atkinson"]
content_type: "Op-Eds & Contributed Articles"
canonical_url: "https://itif.org/publications/2014/11/18/super-wrong-way-understand-net-neutrality/"
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# A Super-Wrong Way To Understand Net Neutrality

Net neutrality is a complicated issue, but is it too much to expect journalists to get it at least mostly right when they write about it? Apparently so. Case in point is Neil Irwin's *New York Times* article “A Super-Simple Way to Understand the Net Neutrality Debate.” Simple, and simply wrong.

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*Source: Information Technology & Innovation Foundation (ITIF)*
*URL: https://itif.org/publications/2014/11/18/super-wrong-way-understand-net-neutrality/*