o net neutrality but prohibits the FCC from accomplishing the goal or
enacting any further regulation affecting Internet service providers.[13][14]
On 31 January 2015, AP News reported that the The Intertnet was developed as a
network between government research laboratories and participating departments
of universities. By the late 1980s, a process was set in place towards public,
commercial use of the Internet. The remaining restrictions were removed by
1995, 4 years after the introduction of the World Wide Web.[1]
In 1989, the first ISPs were established in Australia[2] and the United
States. In Brookline, Massachusetts, The World became the first commercial ISP
in the US. Its first customer was served in November 1989.[3]
On 23 April 2014, the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) was
reported to be considering a new rule that will permit ISPs to offer content
providers a faster track to send content, thus reversing their earlier net
neutrality position.[4][5][6] A possible solution to net neutrality concerns
may be municipal broadband, according to Professor Susan Crawford, a legal and
technology expert at Harvard Law School.[7] On 15 May 2014, the FCC decided to
consider two options regarding Internet services: first, permit fast and slow
broadband lanes, thereby compromising net neutrality; and second, reclassify
broadband as a telecommunication service, thereby preserving net
neutrality.[8][9] On 10 November 2014, President Barack Obama recommended that
the FCC reclassify broadband Internet service as a telecommunications service
in order to preserve net neutrality.[10][11][12] On 16 January 2015,
Republicans presented legislation, in the form of a U.S. Congress H.R.
discussion draft bill, that makes concessions FCC will present the notion of applying
("with some caveats") Title II (common carrier) of the Communications
Act of 1934 to the internet in a vote expected on 26 February
2015.[15][16][17][18][19] Adoption of this notion would reclassify internet
service from one of information to one of the telecommunications[20] and,
according to Tom Wheeler, chairman of the FCC, ensure net neutrality.[21][22]
The FCC is expected to enforce net neutrality in its vote, according to the New
York Times.[23][24]
On 26 February 2015, the FCC ruled in favor of net neutrality by adopting
Title II (common carrier) of the Communications Act of 1934 and Section 706 in
the Telecommunications act of 1996 to the Internet.[25][26][27] The FCC
Chairman, Tom Wheeler, commented, "This is no more a plan to regulate the
Internet than the First Amendment is a plan to regulate free speech. They both
stand for the same concept."[28]
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