Under FCC chair Tom Wheeler, the FCC voted in the 2015 FCC open order to categorize ISPs as Title II common carriers and thus subject to net neutrality principles, which was upheld after a legal challenge raised by the ISP industry in United States Telecom Ass'n v. FCC in 2016.
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Net neutrality in the United States
In the United States, net neutrality—the principle that Internet service providers should make no distinctions between different kinds of content on the Internet, and to not discriminate based on such distinctions—has been an issue of contention... Wikipedia
2003: Introduction of net neutrality concept
2010: Comcast v. FCC
2015: FCC Open Internet Order 2015
2024: Net neutrality officially restored by FCC
This page summarizes the 2022 state legislation regarding net neutrality and internet service providers' network management practices.
Oct 30, 2023 · On October 19, the FCC voted to begin reinstating net neutrality rules, reigniting a longstanding controversy about how the internet should be ...
Apr 25, 2024 · The US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has announced plans to reinstate landmark net neutrality rules meant to guarantee fair access ...
Net Neutrality policies are a national standard by which we ensure that broadband internet service is treated as an essential service. It prohibits internet ...
The FCC just voted in favor of a strong Net Neutrality rule to keep the Internet open and free. That happened because millions of Americans across the ...
Apr 26, 2024 · The Federal Communications Commission has restored net neutrality rules that ban content providers from restricting bandwidth to customers.
Already, six states have signed executive orders to protect Net Neutrality: Hawaii, Montana, New Jersey, New York, Rhode Island and Vermont. Seven have passed ...
Dec 21, 2023 · In 2015, the FCC did exactly that: it reclassified ISPs as common carriers, and instituted rules which we now know as net neutrality protections ...
Sep 26, 2023 · The US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has announced plans to reinstate landmark net neutrality rules meant to guarantee fair access ...