When a federal appeals court in 2010 gutted a series of regulations related to what we now call "net neutrality," Gigi Sohn predicted a bleak future for web users in which most of us would be relegated to a slower experience while a few powerful online firms had access to the speediest connections.
"You can't have innovation if all the big companies get the fast lane," Sohn, then-president of Public Knowledge, a progressive consumer rights group, told The New York Times. "Look at Google, eBay, Yahoo—none of those companies would have survived if 15 years ago we had a fast lane and a slow lane on the Internet."
