The public has the same attention span of a goldfish. The rules were never going to work the way everyone assumed.

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2009/09/net-neutrality-fcc-per...

http://time.com/82409/wheeler-net-neutrality/

https://www.politico.com/story/2015/02/tom-wheeler-net-neutr... http://time.com/74703/net-neutrality-fcc-rules-plan-angers-a...

But then 2016 and suddenly we got hit with an MIB neurolizer and Wheeler was the hero we all wanted, not the shill the lobbyists bought.