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FCC Prepares To Restore Net Neutrality, But The New Rules Might Be Weaker Than The Ones Discarded By Trump
The FCC has announced that it will vote to restore the net neutrality rules stripped away by the Trump administration during an agency meeting on April 25. A reminder: net neutrality rules prevent …
With the vote, the FCC also intends to restore its Title II authority over broadband providers stripped away by Trump Incorporated (an effort you might recall involved no shortage of bullshit and fraud by telecoms and the GOP). At which point you’ll never see the agency so much as mention (much less enforce) the rules, unless an ISP engages in the kind of ham-fisted, ridiculous behavior they’d probably have avoided in the first place (like, say, just overtly blocking a direct competitor’s service). The Biden FCC puts on a good show about caring about these issues, but can’t even candidly acknowledge that telecom monopolization is a real problem in public facing statements, much less propose meaningful solutions (like strong, vocal support for community broadband networks).
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