“Network Neutrality: A History of Common Carrier Laws 1884–2018” by Tyler Elliot Bettilyon, Medium (2017).

Regulations governing carriers’ ability to handle network transactions in a data-neutral way are nothing new. This overview indexes many such regulations stretching back to the 19th century. How might the internet service providers of today differ from these carriers of yesteryear? What commonalities do they maintain?

This book, and all H2O books, are Creative Commons licensed for sharing and re-use with the exception of certain excerpts. Any excerpts from the Restatements of the Law, Principles of the Law, and the Model Penal Code are copyright by The American Law Institute. Excerpts are reproduced with permission, not as part of a Creative Commons license.