The battle for the future of the Internet heated up Monday as tech giants including Google, Facebook, and Amazon joined forces to issue a full-throated defense of net neutrality, the long-standing principle by which Internet data is treated equally. The Internet Association, which represents more than 35 major high-tech Internet firms, Monday for the robust reinstatement of the principle, weighing in once again as the Federal Communications Commission begins to rewrite the rules governing the Internet’s hardwire pipelines after a federal court this year threw out the agency’s Open Internet Order, which required companies to adhere to net neutrality. “Preserving the Internet’s neutrality...
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