David Ingram covers tech for NBC News.
The Federal Communications Commission voted Thursday to restore the policy of net neutrality, a set of rules that requires broadband internet providers to treat all internet traffic more or less equally. The move is a continuation of a battle that has raged for 20 years, with competing visions about what an open and efficient internet should look like. The vote was 3-2, with the FCC’s Democratic majority in favor and the Republican minority opposed.
The Internet & Television Association, a trade group that includes Comcast, said the FCC was trying to control the internet and said there was “no evidence of a problem to be solved.” “Public utilities are notorious for chronic underinvestment and glacial innovation. The FCC’s action uses our nation’s aging utilities and crumbling infrastructure as the model for today’s internet,” the group’s president and CEO, Michael Powell, said in a statement.
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