Dozens of House Dems Back Title II

Three dozen Democratic members of Congress have asked Federal Communications Commission Chairman Tom Wheeler to use Title II authority to protect Internet openness.

That letter was part of a flood of advice from the Hill and elsewhere in advance of the FCC's scheduled open Internet rule vote May 15.

"We urge the FCC to use its clear authority under Title II of the Communications Act to reclassify the transmission component of broadband Internet access as a telecommunications service," they wrote. Without such strong protections, they say, the Internet "could devolve into a closed platform in which those who pay the most can overwhelm other views and ideas."