President Joe Biden will sign an executive order this weekend calling for the Federal Communications Commission to restore net neutrality while targeting Big Tech, internet service providers, and Silicon Valley.
According to CNN, the wide-sweeping executive order will do a number of things. This includes encouraging the use of a " broadband nutrition label" for ISPs to clarify the provider's services (like how much subscription rates are and sharing those findings with the FCC) and scrutinizing mergers more heavily to prevent "killer acquisitions" (such as Facebook's buyout of Instagram and WhatsApp). Among the policy's changes is the restoration of various net neutrality rules for ISPs.
The executive order also encourages the FCC to prohibit internet companies from blocking, slowing, or speeding up certain websites, rules that were set in place during the Obama administration but reversed under Trump's presidency (Former FCC chairman Ajit Pai, who led the agency during the period, resigned before Joe Biden took office earlier this year.) An attempt to restore net neutrality would likely lead to a legal fight, so it's unclear if or when these changes would be made.
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