In a legal win for the Trump administration, a federal appeals court upheld the Federal Communications Commission’s repeal of Obama-era so-called net neutrality protections in a ruling that seemed to encourage states to impose their own regulatory schemes on the internet.
The Obama administration had pushed for net neutrality rules that would have established regulations about how internet service providers, or ISPs, manage their networks. Such rules have been invalidated by courts, which have found that the FCC was without statutory authorization to impose them. However, treating the internet like a public utility, as the Obama administration favored, would have put net neutrality rules on a more solid legal footing.
