It's not the U.S. government. It's one agency of the U.S. government with a chair who is a former employee of the phone companies, who has long agreed with them that they should get rid of net neutrality. I don't think it's government as a whole. I don't think even the White House necessarily bought into this. It's not very popular in Congress either, which is why it might get reversed. It's a narrow part of the government that's doing this. I can give you the argument why they're doing it, but it's not representative of the entire government. It's also very unpopular publicly; I think there are polls showing over 70%. Even republicans are opposed to it. It's a good example of what we call industry capture.
On February 15th, 2018. See this statement in context.