Tom Wheeler Saves Internet, Internet Rejoices

Good news for fans of the open Internet

Word came via an op-ed in Wired this morning from Federal Communications Commission Chairman Tom Wheeler. “After more than a decade of debate and a record-setting proceeding that attracted nearly 4 million public comments,” he wrote, “the time to settle the Net Neutrality question has arrived.”

Under the proposed rules, expected to pass a vote by the FCC that will likely take place on February 26, mobile companies will join broadband companies as designated utilities, and will be subject to, according to Wheeler, “the strongest open internet protections ever proposed by the FCC.”

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