Opinion | Evan Greer: Here's how Congressional Democrats are trying to make the internet great again. - NBCNewsTHINK
Demonstrators rally outside the Federal Communication Commission building to protest against the end of net neutrality rules in Washington, DC on Dec. 14, 2017.Evan GreerWhile we learn more every day about its downsides — social media addiction, disinformation, invasion of privacy — the fact is that the internet is still freaking awesome. It connects us instantly to a seemingly infinite library of human knowledge and creativity.
But there’s a battle happening right now in the United States over the basic principle that makes the internet so transformative: Net neutrality, or the idea that the company from whom you purchase internet access doesn't have the right to control or manipulate what you use it for. For example, Comcast shouldn't be able to force Xfinity users to read NBC News over CNN, and Verizon shouldn't be able to manipulate Fios customers into reading Yahoo News instead of the New York Times.
A little over a year ago, Ajit Pai, the former Verizon lawyer that President Trump put in charge of the Federal Communications Commission,gutted open internet protections. He handed companies like Comcast, T-Mobile, AT&T and, yes, his former employer Verizon the power to manipulate what we see and do online by blocking apps, throttling websites, offering freebie scams and charging expensive new fees.
The bill’s passage can't come soon enough. It’s been less than a year since the FCC repeal went into effect, and the telecom providers who “pinky-sweared” that they would behave have been quietly testing the limits of what they can get away with.
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