Democratic-Led States Go to Court to Restore Net Neutrality
- FCC, bowing to industry pressures, repealed rules last month
- Coalition of attorneys general call regulator’s move arbitrary
Photographer: Chris Ratcliffe/Bloomberg
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A coalition of 22 Democratic attorneys general is asking a U.S. court to reinstate the so-called net neutrality rules repealed by the Federal Communications Commission last month.
The FCC move to rescind the Obama era rules, which barred Internet service providers from giving preferential treatment to some web traffic, while slowing the delivery of other content, was dubbed "restoring internet freedom."