Progressive groups urged Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid,...
Progressive groups urged Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., to ask FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler to reclassify broadband as a Title II telecom service in order to craft what they estimate will be stronger net neutrality rules. These “strong” net…
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neutrality rules should “ban all unreasonable technical discrimination (and define pay-to-play arrangements as inherently unreasonable), forbid blocking, and ban other undue interference with the open architecture of the Internet,” said the Wednesday letter (http://bit.ly/1x8jfIm), signed by Credo, Daily Kos, Democracy for America, Demand Progress, MoveOn, Free Press and others. Reclassification is “the only path forward,” they said, releasing several statements from the group’s leaders backing the letter. “What’s missing is the political will in Washington to challenge AT&T, Comcast and Verizon,” Free Press President Craig Aaron said.