FCC Opens Internet Proceeding

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When it comes to regulating the Internet, Federal Communications Commission chair Julius Genachowski (pictured) is, if nothing else, relentless. In a vote along party lines — the two Republican members dissented — the FCC today opened a new proceeding to reclassifying the Internet as the regulatory equivalent of a phone service, despite a recent court decision that ruled the FCC lacked the authority to do so.

Since 2002, the FCC has classified the Internet as an information service.

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