The FCC, as expected, voted 3-2 along party lines (with Democrats in the majority) to restore network neutrality rules that were eliminated under Republican control and to regulate internet providers under Title II of the Telecommunications Act.
The vote sets up a likely battle in the courts and Congress over what the cable industry’s biggest trade group called “unnecessary and unlawful broadband regulation.” Advocates, including Federal Communications Commission chair Jessica Rosenworcel, favor the return of Title II common-carrier regulation of broadband to guard against “blocking traffic, slowing down content or creating pay-to-play internet fast lanes” as she put it in a “fact sheet” on the agency’s website.
