How the Supreme Court’s Chevron ruling could doom net neutrality
On today’s episode of Decoder, we’re talking about the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Chevron deference and what it means for the future of the internet.
I’ve been covering the fight over net neutrality for almost my entire career as a tech reporter — over 15 years now. The idea is that internet service providers shouldn’t be able to discriminate between what services you access on the internet: AT&T shouldn’t be able to slow down X and speed up Threads, and Verizon shouldn’t be able to block Zoom because it owns BlueJeans.
It’s pretty basic stuff, and after all this time, the Biden administration’s Federal Communications Commission once again made it the law. But big telecom companies truly hate the idea that anyone would...