Report: FCC Chairman Said to be Planning Rollback of Net-Neutrality Regulations
From Marketwatch.com/WSJ:
Federal Communications Commission Chairman Ajit Pai laid out preliminary plans to roll back the agency’s net neutrality rules in a meeting this week with trade associations, according to several people familiar with the matter.
The conversation shows that the FCC chairman is inching closer to making his plans public, possibly as soon as this month. The plans appear aimed at preserving the basic principles of net neutrality but shifting enforcement to the Federal Trade Commission, while undoing what Republican critics regard as the regulatory overreach of the FCC’s rules.
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