Is There Life After Net Neutrality? Republicans Want to Find Out
- Path sketched by Republican advisers sure to find opposition
- Debate in Washington still to unfold following election win
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Republicans fighting to undo net-neutrality rules have a lot of options now that Donald Trump is in the White House and their party controls Congress.
They can use the Federal Communications Commission, freshly under Republican control, to void the regulations on internet service providers and hope to be upheld by the courts. They can try to pass a law that supersedes the FCC rules. And once done, they can let the broadband industry police itself.