FCC regulators overturn controversial net neutrality rules | Daily Mail Online: Net neutrality is the principle that internet providers treat all web traffic equally
Obama-era 2015 rules prohibited telecom companies from blocking or slowing down apps that rival their own services
Now the FCC's Trump-appointed majority has repealed the rule along party lines, and protesters descended on Washington to oppose the plan
One Democratic commissioner said Republicans were 'handing the keys to the Internet' to a 'handful of multi-billion dollar corporations'
The Republican chairman said of the time before the rule was adopted, 'The Internet wasn't broken in 2015. We weren't living in a digital dystopia'
The hearing room was cleared briefly following a phoned-in bomb threat so explosive-sniffing dogs could be brought in
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