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FCC's plan to roll back net neutrality

Hosted by Warren Olney Sep. 13, 2017 National

The FCC's received 22 million comments on its proposal to eliminate "net neutrality" for Internet access. Now the public comment period's over, and a final decision is likely to come very soon. We hear why a regulatory issue has generated so much interest and what the potential consequences might be for Internet users every day.

Photo: Net Neutrality activists gather outside American Enterprise Institute to protest FCC Chairman Ajit Pai and the Trump administration's attacks on internet freedom. (Free Press)

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Credits

Host:

Warren Olney

Producers:

Sáša Woodruff, Luke Vander Ploeg, Katie Cooper, Devan Schwartz