FCC to Vote on ‘Net Neutrality’
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Fuse/Thinkstock(WASHINGTON) — The Federal Communications Commission is expected to meet on Thursday morning to vote on the principle of “net neutrality.”
The FCC uses the term “Open Internet,” which it explains uses “free, publicly available standards that anyone can access and build to, and it treats all traffic that flows across the network in roughly the same way.”
At Thursday’s meeting, which begins at 10:30 a.m., the commission is scheduled to vote on a proposal aimed at preventing Internet providers from pushing some content through the web faster in return for additional fees.
The FCC says that favoring “net neutrality,” or the largely equal treatment of all content by Internet providers, would “ensure that Americans reap the economic, social, and civic benefits of an open Internet today and into the future.”
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