https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/fcc-votes-bring-back-obama-era-net-neutrality-rules-repealed-trump-rcna149415
FCC votes to bring back Obama-era 'net neutrality' rules that were repealed under Trump
The rules aim to ensure that websites and apps have equal access to the global internet regardless of their size or ability to pay the companies that own the web’s infrastructure, such as network cables and cell towers.
April 25, 2024, 3:31 PM CDT
By David Ingram
The Federal Communications Commission voted Thursday to restore the policy of net neutrality, a set of rules that requires broadband internet providers to treat all internet traffic more or less equally.
The move is a continuation of a battle that has raged for 20 years, with competing visions about what an open and efficient internet should look like.
The vote was 3-2, with the FCC’s Democratic majority in favor and the Republican minority opposed. The vote largely restores a policy that was put in place in 2015 during the Obama administration and then repealed during the Trump administration in 2017.
The net neutrality rules are designed to ensure that websites and apps have equal access to the global internet regardless of their size or ability to pay the companies that own the web’s infrastructure, such as network cables and cell towers. They block broadband internet providers from manipulating speeds or creating internet “fast lanes” where a company might pay extra for faster uploads and downloads of its content.
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