Biden admin­is­tra­tion FCC aims to rein­state open inter­net reg­u­la­tions undone in Trump era

Open inter­net reg­u­la­tions whose repeal became a cause cele­bre of sorts among “Resis­tance” types dur­ing the Trump pres­i­den­cy are going back on the books.
With back­ing from the Biden admin­is­tra­tion, the Fed­er­al Com­mu­ni­ca­tions Com­mis­sion vot­ed 3–2 on April 25 to rein­sti­tute updat­ed net neu­tral­i­ty reg­u­la­tions. The rules pro­hib­it broad­band providers from block­ing or slow­ing down ser­vices like Google and Net­flix on their net­works. Crit­ics say the rules will be too much of a bur­den on broad­band providers and any­way are unnec­es­sary since there’s no record of telecom­mu­ni­ca­tions com­pa­nies slow­ing down, or “throt­tling,” spe­cif­ic sites.
It’s the lat­est par­ti­san turn in a back-and-forth fed­er­al rule­mak­ing process stretch­ing back a decade. Dur­ing the Oba­ma admin­is­tra­tion, the FCC put in place a set of net neu­tral­i­ty rules. After Don­ald Trump became pres­i­dent, his cho­sen FCC chair­man, Ajit Pai, suc­cess­ful­ly led the process of undo­ing net neu­tral­i­ty rules.

But not before becom­ing the comedic tar­get of MAX host John Oliv­er, who urged view­ers of his week­ly show to go to the FCC’s web­site to voice their sup­port for the net neu­tral­i­ty reg­u­la­tions then in plac …