Donald Trump's Transition Team Wants to End Net Neutrality [View all]

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Andrea Chalupa ‎@AndreaChalupa
Putin put barbed wire on Russia's internet, to quote a Pussy Riot member. Expect Trump to prioritize this:
6:03 PM - 29 Nov 2016
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The principle that internet service providers should treat data equally was championed by the Obama administration, but corporate lackeys are set to overturn that on the FCC.

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Donald Trump has tapped two telecommunications lobbyists to head his FCC transition team. That’s bad news for net neutrality, the policy that says internet service providers must treat all data equally.

Last Monday, Trump named Jeffrey Eisenach and Mark Jamison to oversee the transition of Federal Communications Commission. Eisenach and Jamison, both are on staff at the conservative at the American Enterprise Institute, and both former lobbyists for major telecommunications companies. Both are vocal opponents of net neutrality.

Neither is a lock for the next FCC chair. But Trump, whose only public stance on net neutrality came in a confused 2014 tweet, is unlikely to champion equal internet access in his administration.

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Hillary, of course, would have made sure we kept Net Neutrality.