Cenk Uygur
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This Is Wonderful News If You Use The Internet
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9:16Now Playing"Over the last few months, things have been looking good for keeping the Internet open to everyone. A little too good, as far as Congress is concerned, which is why members and the corporate lobbyists who write them hefty checks have launched a last-ditch legislative effort to scuttle net neutrality.
Both President Obama and Federal Communications Commission Chair Tom Wheeler have stopped tiptoeing around net neutrality and seem to finally embrace the idea of using Title II of the Telecommunications Act to reclassify Internet Service Providers (ISPs) and regulate them as common carriers, like the phone companies and other public utilities. No preferential treatment to those willing to shell out big corporate bucks for a fast lane.
In early January, Wheeler told a crowd at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, "There's a way to do Title II right." And in his State of the Union address, Barack Obama announced, "I intend to protect a free and open Internet, extend its reach to every classroom, and every community, and help folks build the fastest networks so that the next generation of digital innovators and entrepreneurs have the platform to keep reshaping our world."
No doubt those more than four million public comments filed with the Federal Communications Commission in support of net neutrality went a long way toward convincing Obama and Wheeler that the American people have made up their minds. "* The Young Turks host Cenk Uygur breaks it down.
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