In recent weeks, top officials from the Federal Communications Commission have held closed-door meetings to negotiate with the country’s biggest communications companies and online service providers on how the Internet should be regulated [1]. In a statement today, the FCC said it had called off those talks [2], saying the effort "has been productive on several fronts, but has not generated a robust framework to preserve the openness and freedom of the Internet."
At stake is the principle of net neutrality — the idea that Internet service providers must treat all traffic equally, and not privilege certain content by giving it more, or less, bandwidth — a principle that the FCC has been more aggressive about implementing under the Obama administration [3].
Here’s how Eric Schmidt, Google’s CEO, has explained net neutrality, as reported in the Guardian [4]:
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