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WASHINGTON — The Federal Communications Commission voted on Thursday to dismantle rules regulating the businesses that connect consumers to the internet, granting broadband companies the power to potentially reshape Americans’ online experiences. . . . 


“We are helping consumers and promoting competition,” [FCC chairman Ajit] Pai said. “Broadband providers will have more incentive to build networks, especially to underserved areas.” . . .

“There is a lot of misinformation that this is the ‘end of the world as we know it’ for the internet,” Comcast’s senior executive vice president, David Cohen, wrote in a blog post this week. “Our internet service is not going to change.”

—Cecilia Kang, reporter, “F.C.C. Repeals Net Neutrality Rules,” The New York Times, Dec. 14, 2017. 

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