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Can Democrats In Congress Restore America's Net Neutrality Rules?

Sunday December 9, 2018. 03:34 AM , from Slashdot
'Democrats are expected to use their upcoming control of the House to push for strong net neutrality rules,' reports NBC News:
'The FCC's repeal sparked an unprecedented political backlash, and we've channeled that internet outrage into real political power,' said Evan Greer, deputy director of Fight for the Future, a digital rights-focused non-profit organization. 'As we head into 2019, net neutrality supporters in the House of Representatives will be in a much stronger position to engage in FCC oversight....' Gigi Sohn, a former lawyer at the FCC who is now a fellow at the Georgetown Law Institute for Technology, Law and Policy, said she expects Democrats to use their new power to push for the restoration of strong net neutrality rules -- and for the topic to be on the lips of presidential hopefuls. 'I have no doubt that bills to restore the 2015 rules will be introduced in both the Senate and the House relatively early on,' Sohn said....
Jessica Rosenworcel, an FCC commissioner who has been a vocal supporter of net neutrality, noted that it has become a national issue -- and one that has broad approval from Americans. She pointed to a University of Maryland study that found 83 percent of people surveyed were against the FCC's move to undo the rules around net neutrality... Ernesto Falcon, legislative counsel at the Electronic Frontier Foundation...said he is 'extraordinarily confident' that proponents of net neutrality will win. 'It really just boils down to how one side of the polling is in this space,' Falcon said.

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