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The U.S. will reinstate Obama-era regulations for internet service providers that promise fast, reliable and fair internet speeds for all consumers. What happened when those rules were taken away?
In a 3 – 2 vote taken Thursday, the nation’s top communications regulators ruled that broadband internet is a communications tool of the same species as the service delivered by old-fashioned copper telephone lines and therefore a 'common carrier' subject to Title II of the Communications Act of 1934.
The US government on Thursday banned internet service providers (ISPs) from meddling in the speeds their customers receive when browsing the web and downloading files, restoring tough rules rescinded during the Trump administration and setting the stage for a major legal battle with the broadband industry.
Broadband lobby groups prepare lawsuit, calling rules a "net fatality."
The open internet is, once again, protected from corporations.