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Historic Court Ruling for Net Neutrality

by R. Robertson
It’s being called one of the most important moments in the history of the internet. A federal appeals court, in a 2-1 decision, ruled this week that internet service providers must offer essentially the same protections to users that are required of phone companies. Digital activists are especially celebrating the part of the ruling that says that the FCC can apply its rules to cellphone data as well as home broadband.
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It’s being called one of the most important moments in the history of the internet, a game-changing passage of net neutrality rules, and a First Amendment for the internet. A federal appeals court, in a 2-1 decision, ruled this week that internet service providers must offer essentially the same protections to users that are required of phone companies. Digital activists are especially celebrating the part of the ruling that says that the FCC can apply its rules to cellphone data as well as home broadband.

Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has been at the forefront of the battle for net neutrality, sometimes called internet freedom. Along with EFF other digital privacy non-profits including freepress.net and the newer Fight for the Future galvanized internet users to press the FCC to do its job and protect the internet from corporate domination. “This is the largest victory against monopolies this decade. Big telecom lost the number one handout they have spent hundreds of millions of dollars lobbying for over the last ten years,” said Tiffiniy Cheng, Co-Director of Fight for the Future.

A provision in the ruling allows the FCC to investigate suspicious ISP activity, and call out telecom behavior that it deems unfair.
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