Sunday, 5 August 2018

Despite FCC repeal, Trump administration asks Supreme Court to vacate court decision that allowed net neutrality

On Friday, the Trump administration made a request to the Supreme Court, asking it to vacate a 2016 appeals court decision that upheld net neutrality rules. Net neutrality prevents ISPs and wireless carriers from differentiating certain content streams by blocking or throttling content that they don't like. It also prevents them from receiving money from a content provider in order to provide them with a "fast lane" to subscribers.

In June, the net neutrality rules, originally devised and passed by the Obama-era FCC, were removed from the books by the Trump FCC, ...

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