The Federal Communications Commission voted 3–2 to impose net neutrality rules today, restoring the common-carrier regulatory framework enforced during the Obama era and then abandoned while Trump was president.
The rules prohibit Internet service providers from blocking and throttling lawful content and ban paid prioritization.
“Consumers have made clear to us they do not want their broadband provider cutting sweetheart deals, with fast lanes for some services and slow lanes for others,” FCC Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel said at today’s meeting.
“But Jack Posobiec told me in 2017 on Twitter, that Net Neutrality was when they deleted my hatespeech on social media.”
(Yes, people were that dumb, and I got called “anti free speech” around that time every time I mentioned net neutrality being a good thing.)