Net Neutrality Returns to FCC Agenda Under Democrat Majority, and Immediately Draws Criticism
variety.comTodd Spangler NY Digital Editor Net neutrality — the concept that internet service providers should be prohibited from blocking or degrading access to users — is back in political play.
And not everyone’s happy about the reprise. On Tuesday, FCC Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel proposed restoring the agency’s net neutrality rules under its authority to reclassify broadband as a telecommunications service (rather than an information service).
The proposal seeks to “largely” return to the Open Internet Order rules the FCC adopted in 2015, before they were overturned in 2018 by the Trump administration. “In the wake of the pandemic and the generational investment in internet access, we have a window to update our policies to make sure that the internet is not only open, but fast and fair, safe and secure,” Rosenworcel said in remarks at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. “I am committed to seizing this opportunity.
Now is the time for our rules of the road for internet service providers to reflect the reality that internet access is a necessity for daily life.
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