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Digital freedom activists are guardedly calling the just announced Federal Communications Commission rules for the internet use a victory in the battle for a free internet. “The framework described by FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler, if enacted, would ban throttling, blocking, and paid prioritization by Internet service providers; reclassify broadband as a telecommunications utility, and bring mobile networks into the same rules,” writes Joshua Brustein, Bloomberg News, February 4, 2015. Brustein also writes that the rules would still

Congressional Republicans released its draft net neutrality legislation that would block the Federal Communications Commission from regulating the broadband industry. The legislation bans the FCC from reclassifying broadband as a common carrier service rendering them powerless in regulating broadband. (Ars Technica, January 16, 2015, by Jon Brodkin) Sprint surprised the world of Internet providers by announcing it was breaking ranks and supporting reclassification of broadband as a common carrier service. Verizon, AT&T and Comcast are

President Barack Obama made a forceful statement for making the internet free and open, urging the Federal Communications Commission to make rules to prevent broadband companies from blocking or slowing content and to prevent  providers from buying fast lanes to access consumers. Obama favors regulating broadband service like a utility. The comments may influence the FCC chairman, Tom Wheeler, who will soon announce his plan to protect net neutrality. (The New York Times, November 10,

With Federal Communications Commission Chair Tom Wheeler floating a new plan on regulation of broadband internet service, there is much speculation about the political fallout from the plan and the chances of getting a plan that gives the FCC more power past the commission and through a Republican-controlled Congress. (The Wall Street Journal, November 13, 2014, by Guatham Nagesh) Republican South Dakota Senator John Thune, primed to assume the chairmanship of the Commerce Committee, favors

President Barack Obama again expressed his opposition to preferential treatment for certain websites who could pay providers for faster lanes. He wants the Federal Communications Commission to treat broadband as  a public utility. (GigaOm, October 10, 2014, by Jeff John Roberts) Obama was careful to say that the FCC was an independent agency not subject to presidential orders. Consumer groups want to preserve net neutrality by granting the FCC more power but broadband providers and