It is no longer true that net neutrality regulations do not exist in the United States. Thanks to a 100% party line vote in the United States Senate on November 10th, a resolution of disapproval stemming from the House of Representatives did not advance, preventing a White House rumored veto. The result of the Senate vote is that watered-down and strangely segregated net neutrality regulations passed by the Federal Communications Commission on a 3-2 vote at the end of last year became the law of the land earlier this month. The practical implications of the current state of affairs is an Internet with different rules of the road depending on the device and the mode of connection used to access the Internet. Wired connections are now subject to basic neutrality requirements: wireless ones are not. One single user may cross regulatory realities as many as five times in a day when switching from a LAN desktop computer at work, to a smartphone or tablet and then perhaps to a laptop computer on cafe wifi late at night. This schizophrenic approach to one of the major civil liberty issues of our time is hopefully just a temporary stop along what it is turning out to be a long road to an open and unfettered Internet. The Internet You Need: An original animated short on net neutrality by Bad Monkey Studios in collaboration with Media Alliance.