FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler. (credit: FCC)
In his final speech before leaving the Federal Communications Commission, Chairman Tom Wheeler today made the case for why net neutrality rules are working and said that Republican commissioners won’t necessarily have an easy time overturning the rules.
“Contrary to what you might have heard, reversing the Open Internet rules is not a slam dunk,” Wheeler said at the Aspen Institute in Washington, DC. “The effort to undo an open Internet will face the high hurdle, imposed by the Administrative Procedure Act, of a fact-based showing that so much has changed in just two short years that a reversal is justified.”
The speech’s full text is available here.
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