The FCC and its ‘net neutrality’ debacle

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An Encounter Broadsides excerpt “There is little dispute . . . that the Internet should continue as an open platform,” notes the Federal Communications Commission. Yet curiously, they moved to discontinue the legal regime yielding openness.

In late 2010, exercising gusto rejected for over a decade by both Republican and Democratic commissions, it imposed “network neutrality” regulations on wired and wireless broadband-access providers.

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