President Obama waded into the controversial issue known as net neutrality today, expressing his opposition against proposed measures he said would "end the Internet as we know it," by allowing service providers to create fast and slow lanes. Some parts of the industry are asking the Federal Communications Commission for more leeway for how they package and sell various Internet plans. Under net neutrality rules adopted by the FCC in 2010, broadband providers, including Time Warner Cable and Verizon, were prohibited from prioritizing certain Internet traffic. But a three-judge appeals court ruled in January that the FCC's anti-discrimination rules, which require broadband providers to...
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