What Comes Next in the Fight for Net Neutrality

Since the Federal Communications Commission voted to repeal the Obama-era regulations on net neutrality, officials from New York have been at the forefront of the fight over the Internet's future. State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman has joined with other state attorneys general to sue the agency to block the repeal, while Democratic Sen. Chuck Schumer has pledged to force his colleagues to vote to preserve the 2015 rules, which guarantee that broadband providers cannot charge customers more to access certain websites at higher speed.

The controversy over the regulations brings new questions about the roles of states and municipalities in regulating the internet service providers that dominate the business, like Verizon and AT&T. Columbia Law professor Tim Wu (who coined the term "net neutrality) told WNYC's Jami Floyd that the current clash between federal and state officials could eventually end up in the Supreme Court.

"It's starting to become one of these issues that everyone's talking about," Wu said. "Things like federal-state supremacy, agencies changing their mind, these are classic Supreme Court issues."

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