Anyone who thought Thanksgiving would include several days of comity and goodwill toward fellow countrymen has been disabused, and one holiday brawl has been about “net neutrality” rules that the Federal Communications Commission plans to repeal. The political outrage doesn’t match the underlying merits, which is a return to the free internet that reigned for 20 years.

FCC Chairman Ajit Pai this week announced a plan to unwind the Obama Administration’s 2015 “open internet” order that classified the web as a public utility...