Net neutrality is back, kinda Where the modern internet begins and ends is a key issue in deciding what exemptions should exist for next-generation applications made possible by 5G But there’s a key detail that remains to be worked out: how to define the internet in 2024. As a growing proportion of the modern physical world is intertwined with the internet, the question of precisely where it begins and ends has become murkier. FCC officials stopped short of defining the boundaries at a news conf