US regulators voted Thursday to roll back so-called “net neutrality” rules which required internet providers to treat all traffic equally, in the latest twist to an acrimonious debate over online freedom. Net neutrality activists have staged a series of protests in cities around the US and online, amid fears that dominant broadband providers could change how the internet works. “Entrepreneurs and innovators guided the internet far better than the heavy hand of government.”Pai said removing neutrality rules is key to investment to develop newer “next generation” services such as telemedicine or autonomous driving. “And that means more Americans are left on the wrong side of the digital divide.”But dissenting FCC commissioner Jessica Rosenworcel said: “Net neutrality is internet freedom. “The internet has functioned without net neutrality rules far longer than with them,” he said.

Source: Punch December 14, 2017 20:37 UTC