Following
the vote last week by the Federal Communication Commission to unwind
the net neutrality rules enacted during the Obama administration,
House Republican lawmakers received an email from GOP leadership on
how to defend the decision. The email was shared with The Intercept
and the Center for Media and Democracy.
Net
neutrality is the principle that internet service providers must
treat all web traffic in the same way. If the FCC eventually undoes
the Obama-era regulations in their entirety, an ISP like Comcast
could demand that websites pay it fees in order not to slow or block
them. Large companies like Facebook would easily be able to afford
such charges, but smaller companies might not, creating an uneven
playing field.
“Want
more information on the net neutrality discussion?” wrote
Washington state Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers, chair of the House
Republican Conference. “Here is a nifty toolkit with news
resources, myth vs reality information, what others are saying, and
free market comments.”
The
attached packet of talking points came directly from the cable
industry.
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