The Federal Communications Commission is set to vote Thursday to reinstate landmark net neutrality rules and assume new regulatory oversight of broadband intern
FILE- In this June 19, 2018, file photo a router and internet switch are displayed in East Derry, N.H. The House has passed a bill to restore Obama-era “ net neutrality ” rules, but the legislation may die in the Republican-controlled Senate.
The Save the Internet Act passed the Democrat-controlled House 232-190, largely on party lines. But top Senate Republican Mitch McConnell said Tuesday, April 10, 2019, that net neutrality is “dead on arrival in the Senate.” The Federal Communications Commission is set to vote Thursday to reinstate landmark net neutrality rules and assume new regulatory oversight of broadband internet that was rescinded under former President Donald Trump. Federal Communications Commission Commissioner Brendan Carr joined The National Desk’s Jan Jeffcoat to discuss the issue. “What’s so interesting is there’s two very different things happening here. On the one hand, you have net neutrality which is a very popular idea that website by ISP broadband providers shouldn’t be unduly blocking which websites you go to or throttling which application you use without disclosing it.” The utility regulations work by giving the government sweeping controls over all the features of the internet. “The reality is what the FCC is doing, taking the internet and placing it under Title II of the Communications Act, which is a different thing that comes with a lot of heavy-handed government control,” Carr said. “So we actually could have bipartisan agreement pretty quickly net neutrality but what the FCC is doing is something different having to doo with these Title II utility regulations for the internet.”
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