Obama wants to regulate the internet like a utility. His FCC chair disagrees.
Posted on AllSides November 12th, 2014
From The Left
FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler is not on board with President Obama's call for the commission to reclassify internet service providers as telecommunications services, Brian Fung and Nancy Scola report.
Instead, Wheeler told industry figures in a Monday meeting that he wants to figure out a way to "split the baby" and deliver some form of network neutrality in another way.
Wheeler's predecessor at the FCC, Julius Genachowski, sought net neutrality without reclassification but was rebuffed by the courts.