Netflix Urges Federal Communications Commission To Pass Open Internet Rules

Netflix argued that the future of streaming video will turn on whether the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) bans broadband providers from tampering with online traffic. “Today’s online entertainment marketplace is intensely competitive, which benefits consumers,” the streaming video company wrote in comments filed with the FCC. “Fostering that competition, however, depends on protecting the open Internet.” The company's filing comes in response to the FCC's recent proposal to reinstate the Obama-era net neutrality rules -- including ones that would prohibit broadband providers from blocking or throttling content, and charging higher fees for prioritized delivery. Those rules, passed in 2015, were repealed during the Trump administration.