See A monkey hanger’s guide to Net Neutrality:
During the Napoleonic Wars, 1805, legend has it that citizens of Hartlepool tried and hung a monkey … believing it to be a French spy.
Last year, the US Congress almost “hung the monkey”, too.
The piece is both entertaining and informative. Britain’s take on net neutrality: “an answer to problems we don’t have, using a philosophy we don’t share”