The Biden administration plans to bring back open internet rules that were enacted during the Obama administration and then repealed by the Trump administration.
In a speech on Tuesday, Jessica Rosenworcel, chairwoman of the Federal Communications Commission, declared that the repeal in 2017 put the F.C.C.
“on the wrong side of history, the wrong side of the law, and the wrong side of the public.”The earlier open internet rules, known as net neutrality, prohibited broadband internet suppliers — telecommunications and cable companies — from blocking or slowing online services.
It also banned the broadband companies from charging some content providers higher prices for priority treatment, or “fast lanes” on the internet.
“This afternoon,” Ms. Rosenworcel said in her speech at the National Press Club in Washington, “I am sharing with my colleagues a rule making that proposes to restore net neutrality.”
Persons:
Obama, Trump, Jessica Rosenworcel, “, ” Ms, Rosenworcel, ”
Organizations:
Biden, Federal Communications Commission, National Press Club
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Washington