Fight to Save Net Neutrality Rules Faces Long Odds in Courtrooms
- Opponents of FCC vote to roll back the rules vow legal action
- Republican FCC chairman says he’s confident act will stand up
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Within minutes of the U.S. Federal Communications Commission vote to roll back Obama-era net neutrality regulations, threats of lawsuits to block the move rolled in.
"Allowing internet service providers to discriminate based on content undermines a free and open Internet," Washington State Attorney General Bob Ferguson said in a statement announcing the intention to file challenges along with colleagues from other states.