Exclusive: U.S. agency to vote to repeal 'net neutrality' rules - FCC chief

Exclusive: U.S. agency to vote to repeal 'net neutrality' rules - FCC chief

7 years ago
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https://finance.yahoo.com/news/exclusive-u-agency-vote-repeal-161842612.html

With three Republican and two Democratic commissioners, the move is all but certain to be approved. Trump, a Republican, expressed his opposition to net neutrality in 2014 before the regulations were even implemented, calling it a "power grab" by Obama.

"The FCC will no longer be in the business of micromanaging business models and preemptively prohibiting services and applications and products that could be pro-competitive," Pai said in an interview, adding that the Obama administration had sought to pick winners and losers and exercised "heavy-handed" regulation of the internet.