Timeline of Net Neutrality

It took me a while to understand the cartoon illustrating the article. I now see that it’s saying that net neutrality will free the Internet from control by the ISPs.
But at first I thought the cartoon was aimed at making net neutrality look bad, since (counterintuitively) net neutrality (so I first thought) was being shown as severing the connections between ISPs and accessing the Internet… Whereas it’s actuality laws and agreements which block net neutrality which keep the user from accessing the Internet… Finally I figured out what the cartoon was saying (namely, that net neutrality is good, because it frees the Internet), but it took a while.