The U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) voted on April 25 to reinstate net neutrality regulations, which block service providers such as Comcast, AT&T, Verizon from stratifying the internet with preferred traffic.
The FCC then voted in 2015 to change ISPs from Title I information services to Title II common carriers, thus subjecting ISPs to net neutrality protocols.
Standing U.S. President Joe Biden enacted an executive order in 2021 to encourage the FCC to reinstate net neutrality.
The FCC guidelines previously disallowed such tactics under rules that dictated “net neutrality,” and did not allow ISPs to charge consumers extra for faster access to some Internet content compared to others.