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Appeals court shoots down FCC's request to postpone start of legal battle over net neutrality

On February 1st, oral arguments are scheduled to begin in a suit filed in the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals by 22 state attorneys general and the AG of Washington D.C. With the FCC as the defendant, the aim of the legal action is to force the government agency to reinstate the Obama-era rules known as net neutrality. Under net neutrality, ISPs and wireless carriers must treat all streaming content the same, cannot offer "fast lanes" to content providers in exchange for cash, and are prohibited from blocking content that they don't philosophically agree with.

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