FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler Accommodates Title II Protestors

Federal Communications Commission Chairman Tom Wheeler accommodated protesters who initially interrupted the FCC's December public meeting to call for Title II reclassification of Internet access.

At the beginning of the meeting, the proceedings were briefly interrupted as protesters called for Title II to be on the agenda (it was not), talked about the plethora of comments in the docket, and even briefly unfurled a sign behind Chairman Wheeler. The chairman asked one speaker to hold off for a minute as a protester was shouting, but he did not upbraid the protesters. In fact, he pointed out that there were a lot of students in the audience and said they had just seen "the First Amendment at work," adding: "This is what the country is all about."