How Net Neutrality Protects Consumers & Speech

A fact sheet on how net neutrality protects consumers and online freedom of speech. Open internet protections have long had widespread – upwards of 80 percent – support from the American people who have come to expect that they will be able to access all lawful content on the internet uninhibited by their broadband service provider’s business decisions. Across administrations from 2005 to 2018, it was the clear policy of the FCC to enforce open internet standards. Chairwoman Rosenworcel’s proposal would reinstate that longstanding policy by restoring net neutrality rules and classifying broadband service as a telecommunications service under Title II of the Communications Act. The proposed no blocking, no throttling, and no unreasonable discrimination protections will prevent broadband service providers from deliberately interfering with consumers’ access to lawful content, applications, and services. Read the full fact sheet here.