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Biden to target Big Tech and internet service providers with new executive order
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President Joe Biden will sign a wide-ranging executive order on Friday aimed squarely at some of the most concentrated industries in America, including Internet service providers and Silicon Valley.
The order seeks to juice competition in broadband by encouraging the Federal Communications Commission to reintroduce a so-called "nutrition label" for internet service providers that would give consumers more clear information about a provider's services. It calls for the FCC to restrict early termination fees and to ban exclusivity deals that currently limit apartment buildings and other rental units to only one Internet provider. It also calls on the FCC to restore the agency's net neutrality rules for broadband companies that would prohibit them from selectively blocking, slowing or speeding up websites. Those rules, approved during the Obama administration, were pared back under the Trump FCC. Reinstating the rules would likely provoke yet another court fight on the matter.More Related News

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