12/18/2017

Legal Fight Expected After Net Neutrality Repeal

The controversial rollback of the FCC's existing open internet rules is likely to end up in court

It may be one of the most controversial decisions yet made during the Trump presidency, and one that could seriously shake up the future of the internet.

The Federal Communications Commission’s repeal of its 2015 Open Internet Order, which went through on Thursday in a 3-2 vote, was so tense that the commission’s meeting had to be briefly evacuated due to a security threat.

The measure, which rolls back strict rules that treated the internet like a communications utility, won’t immediately go into effect, but it will take the conflict over how the internet is regulated out of the hands of the commission and into the hands of the legal system, to state governments, and even in the halls of Congress.

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