Comedian John Oliver of HBO's "Last Week Tonight with John Oliver" has done the unimaginable: He made the debate over the Federal Communications Commission's proposed net neutrality rules compelling. Now if only he'd gotten the facts right. Oliver, who honed his news-reading-as-comedy chops with Jon Stewart at Comedy Central's "The Daily Show," presented a segment on net neutrality Sunday that combined equal parts humor and outrage. The latter sprang from the notion that the FCC, led by a former cable industry lobbyist, wants to let cable companies set up fast lanes and slow lanes online. Or, as Oliver put it, "If we let cable companies offer two speeds of service,...
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