Noah Feldman, Columnist

Net Neutrality Upheld as the Law of the Web

After two previous rejections, an appeals court affirms the Obama administration's hard-fought regulation.

June 15, 2016 at 3:30 PM UTC

Noah Feldman is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist. A professor of law at Harvard University, he is author, most recently, of “To Be a Jew Today: A New Guide to God, Israel, and the Jewish People."

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For net neutrality, the third time turned out to be the charm. An appeals court upheld a Federal Communications Commission order requiring broadband companies to treat all internet-based content providers the same -- after rejecting FCC efforts to achieve roughly the same result twice before in the last seven years.

The Obama administration has wanted to implement net neutrality since the beginning of its term, when the president appointed a Democratic majority to the commission.