The FCC has approved President Obama’s net neutrality plan by a 3-2 vote:
Federal regulators moved forward on Thursday with a Net neutrality plan to protect openness on the Internet by treating the online world more like heavily regulated telecommunications markets.
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Courts have struck down earlier Net neutrality efforts, saying the FCC lacked authority to impose such rules. So this time around, the FCC chose to categorize high-speed Internet service as a telecommunications service.
The “plan” and the process for its approval was anything but transparent.
FCC Approves "Open" Internet Rules in Secret
— Razor (@hale_razor) February 26, 2015
Author Brad Thor summed up the story this way:
https://twitter.com/BradThor/status/571026916142161920
Comforting!
@BradThor if you like your internet, you can keep your internet……..probably not
— Erin Wilkinson (@E_Wilkinson) February 26, 2015
https://twitter.com/GRRRR8est/status/571027779388448768
@BradThor What could go wro5798…45..t)+==_.e.3…75@$>> http://t.co/VVFKfhbaQq
— Beaksley (@U_Quack_Addict) February 26, 2015
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