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He grew up in Rosemead in the era of dial-up internet and AOL and was drawn to how engineers solved problems.

"I am old enough that I remember when we had dial-up internet, and AOL gave you 10 hours a month or five hours a month or whatever your package was," Altman said.

Justice Clarence Thomas added that “we’re in an entirely different world” from Ashcroft, which “was a world of dial-up internet.”

“It’s just a dial-up of our quality, to differentiate,” she said.

Net neutrality has been a partisan football for more than two decades, or ever since high-speed broadband connections began to supplant dial-up modems.