Current debates about twitter, Alex Jones, etc. help put in perspective a quite recent debate over "net neutrality." We are now facing "net neutrality 2.0" and we can achieve some clarity over what it does and what it doesn't mean. Last year the Federal Communications Commission, at the insistence of the man that President Trump has made its chair, Ajit Pai, repeals an Obama-era rule that prohibited Internet Service Providers (ISPs) from charging websites or apps for the ability to load ahead of potential competitors. Advocates of the rule said that it wasn't an Obama invention, but simply the codification of an older tradition and understanding, and that Pai -- and the huge ISPs including AT&T and Verizon, were breaking not only with the one but with the other, to the detriment of the public interest. Pai, on the other hand, portrayed the rule itself as fixing something that wasn't broken, and said the ISPs should be allowed to innovate i...