The Republican-controlled FCC voted along party lines to repeal Net Neutrality, but open-internet defenders are urging the public to recognize that the fight is not over.
Federal Communications Commission Chairman Ajit Pai led the other Republican commissioners in repealing Net Neutrality rules that required internet service providers to treat all online content equally.
More than 100 Republican members of Congress voiced their support for repealing the Net Neutrality rules in a letter circulated a day before the vote, giving their constituents — who are overwhelmingly opposed to this decision — little or no time to respond.
Over the objections of the commission's two Democrats, the three Republican members, including Chairman Ajit Pai, voted to overturn protections put in place in 2015 — but not before fudging a few facts.
The Federal Communications Commission voted to roll back key Net Neutrality protections, but that doesn't mean Net Neutrality is going away completely. At least, not yet.
Timothy Karr discusses the implications of the Trump's FCC vote to kill Net Neutrality. He also explains how people can fight to nullify today's undemocratic vote.
The FCC passed a motion, as expected, to repeal Net Neutrality rules — ignoring the millions of people and the hundreds of online companies that have objected to the repeal.