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FCC brings down the gavel on Net Neutrality

FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler just brought down the gavel on the latest moment in the Net Neutrality saga. Commissioners voted 3-2 to allow his “Notice of Proposed Rulemaking” to go ahead, meaning we have 120 days to submit comments on his terrible proposal to allow for “Internet fast-lanes” that will be available to the online services that offer ISPs the biggest bribes. The outcome that I — and Net Neutrality advocates — had been hoping for was that for the Commission to reject his proposal outright and tell him to come up with a better one for comment. A reminder: Wheeler is a former cable lobbyist, and the cable companies stand to make billions, forever, from his proposal.

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