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U.S. Appeals Court Upholds FCC’s Net Neutrality Rules

By CircleID Reporter

The US broadband industry has lost its lawsuit attempting to overturn the Federal Communications Commission’s net neutrality rules and the related reclassification of Internet service providers as common carriers. ISPs’ First Amendment claims (among others) were rejected. “Because a broadband provider does not—and is not understood by users to—‘speak’ when providing neutral access to Internet content as common carriage, the First Amendment poses no bar to the open Internet rules,” judges wrote in a decision released today by the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.

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