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EPISODE · Sep 27, 2017 · 32 MIN

171 Neutering Net Neutrality

from PolicyCast · host Harvard Kennedy School

As Chairman of the FCC, Tom Wheeler reclassified broadband as a public utility, to ensure that internet service providers would continue to treat all data equally. Now, his successor is trying to undo those efforts, and he’s not happy about it. Wheeler is currently a Walter Shorenstein Media and Democracy Fellow at the Kennedy School’s Shorenstein Center, as well as a visiting professor at Harvard Law School.

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As Chairman of the FCC, Tom Wheeler reclassified broadband as a public utility to ensure that internet service providers would continue to treat all data equally. Now, his successor is trying to undo those efforts, and he’s not happy about it.

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