{"id":305847,"date":"2017-04-29T14:14:38","date_gmt":"2017-04-29T13:14:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/trumps-fcc-chairman-issues-plan-to-overturn-2015-net-neutrality-rules\/"},"modified":"2017-04-29T14:14:38","modified_gmt":"2017-04-29T13:14:38","slug":"trumps-fcc-chairman-issues-plan-to-overturn-2015-net-neutrality-rules","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/trumps-fcc-chairman-issues-plan-to-overturn-2015-net-neutrality-rules\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump\u2019s FCC chairman issues plan to overturn 2015 \u201cnet neutrality\u201d rules"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content\">\n<h3 class=\"nomargin\">\u00a0<\/h3>\n<h2>Trump\u2019s FCC chairman issues plan to overturn 2015 \u201cnet neutrality\u201d rules<\/h2>\n<h5>\n<p>    By<br \/>\n    Kevin Reed<br \/>\n    <br \/>29 April 2017<\/p>\n<\/h5>\n<p>The Trump administration\u2019s Federal Communication Commission (FCC) chairman, Ajit Pai, released a draft proposal on Thursday for overturning net neutrality regulations that the agency adopted in 2015. Net neutrality is the principle that the transmission of data over the Internet must be treated equally, without regard to content, purpose or originating source.<\/p>\n<p>Under the terms of the 2015 Obama-era FCC \u201cOpen Internet Order,\u201d companies that own the infrastructure and provide broadband Internet cable and wireless services cannot slow, block or prioritize online content. Additionally, they cannot provide faster delivery of content from companies that are willing to pay more for it.<\/p>\n<p>In its notice of rule changes entitled \u201cRestoring Internet Freedom,\u201d the FCC draft proposal calls for an end to the 2015 \u201cregulatory approach that gives government control of the Internet and to restore the market-based policies necessary to preserve the future of Internet Freedom \u2026\u201d In other words, for the Trump administration a \u201cfree and open Internet\u201d is synonymous with removing any restrictions on corporations and has nothing to do with the access and privacy issues confronting the public.<\/p>\n<p>At the heart of the draft proposal is elimination of what is known as Title II public utility-style regulation of broadband Internet Service Providers (IPSs). Under Title II rules, telecommunications giants like Verizon, AT&amp;T, Time Warner, Charter\/Spectrum and Comcast are regulated as \u201ccommon carrier services.\u201d This means that their policies and practices are subject to FCC review based on \u201cjust and reasonable\u201d and \u201cpublic good\u201d considerations.<\/p>\n<p>The FCC\u2019s new draft&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wsws.org\/en\/articles\/2017\/04\/29\/fcct-a29.html\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 Trump\u2019s FCC chairman issues plan to overturn 2015 \u201cnet neutrality\u201d rules By Kevin Reed 29 April 2017 The Trump administration\u2019s Federal Communication Commission (FCC) chairman, Ajit Pai, released a draft proposal on Thursday for overturning net neutrality regulations that the agency adopted in 2015. Net neutrality is the principle that the transmission of data [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2526,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-305847","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305847","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2526"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=305847"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305847\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=305847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=305847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=305847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}