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Free Press urges FCC action on net neutrality

FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler "needs to tell the American public when the FCC’s going to implement real net neutrality safeguards and how they're going to get it done," Free Press President Craig Aaron said in a statement Thursday after a…

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tentative agenda released by the agency for December's commission meeting did not, as expected, include action on net neutrality. The FCC had no immediate comment. "The FCC should have all of the information and motivation it needs to make the right decision and protect Internet users by reclassifying broadband providers as common carriers under Title II of the Communications Act," Aaron said. “President Obama has joined nearly 4 million Americans in calling on the agency to protect real Net Neutrality. Now it’s time for the FCC to take action."