Net Neutrality

On December 14, 2017, the FCC Comissoners lead by Trump appointee Ajit Pai, will be considering a previous FCC decision that the Internet is a telecommunications service essential to the public need and should be regulated using Title 2 of the 1996 Communications Act. Such a reversal would allow the Internet to function as private information system in which wealthy corporations could pay for increased speed and visibility. Individual voices and small nonprofits such as ART FM would be lost in a deep and distant cyber vortex.


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