How to Use net neutrality in a Sentence

net neutrality

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  • Washington’s new net neutrality law is the first of its kind to both pass and take effect.
    — Fortune, 11 June 2018
  • The mixed decision is the latest twist in the long battle over net neutrality.
    — Wired, 1 Oct. 2019
  • An effort to reinstate net neutrality passed the House in April, but was not picked up by the Senate.
    — Washington Post, 6 Feb. 2020
  • Even with net neutrality, these groups were all over the place — even though Facebook and Google supported it.
    — Allan Smith, NBC News, 3 July 2019
  • For years, consumer groups have pushed for tough net neutrality rules.
    — Brian Fung, CNN, 1 Oct. 2019
  • Another pair of bills would have required providers that contract with the state to abide by net neutrality rules.
    — Annie Zak, Anchorage Daily News, 26 June 2018
  • The fight over net neutrality has prompted strong responses on both sides of the issue.
    — Jon Porter, The Verge, 1 Oct. 2018
  • Let the free market, secured by net neutrality, do its work.
    — Mark Weinstein, WSJ, 27 June 2019
  • But net neutrality activists don't want to take the companies at their word.
    — Klint Finley, WIRED, 11 June 2018
  • And by the way, this is all happening while net neutrality is now officially off the books.
    — Recode Staff, Recode, 28 June 2018
  • Heavy-handed tactics like throttling and usage caps would have been blocked by the 2015 net neutrality rules.
    — Karl Bode, The Verge, 18 Dec. 2018
  • Williams and her Illinois net neutrality bill are not an anomaly.
    — Cathy Cunningham, chicagotribune.com, 5 July 2018
  • Among Pai’s first acts as agency chief was to propose a rollback of the earlier net neutrality rules.
    — Brian Fung, CNN, 26 Sep. 2023
  • After the removal of the net neutrality rule in 2017, there haven’t been reports of an internet provider choking a website to death.
    — Eva Dou, Washington Post, 28 Sep. 2023
  • Any changes now, while the spotlight is on net neutrality, could lead to a public relations backlash.
    — Fox News, 12 June 2018
  • It's brought to you by the same agency that gave broadband providers the right to censor your online activity by rolling back net neutrality.
    — Jon Brodkin, Ars Technica, 12 Dec. 2018
  • At that point, it was amended to add exceptions to the net neutrality protections.
    — Aaron Pressman, Fortune, 20 June 2018
  • In total, about 18 million of the 22 million comments sent to the F.C.C. during the debate over the net neutrality rules were fake, the investigation found.
    — New York Times, 6 May 2021
  • The issue was mentioned in a net neutrality lawsuit brought by several states in 2018.
    — Ahiza Garcia, CNN, 5 Nov. 2019
  • The site has been a hotbed of protests in favor of net neutrality, the idea that internet service providers should not charge extra to handle certain types of traffic.
    — David Ingram, NBC News, 12 June 2023
  • The primary concern of net neutrality should be maintaining the flow of diverse ideas.
    — Letters To The Editor, The Mercury News, 14 May 2024
  • The carrier also frames the new offering as in compliance with the FCC’s net neutrality rules.
    — Michael Kan, PCMAG, 1 May 2024
  • What happens to net neutrality at the FCC also bears on bridging the digital divide.
    — Christopher Mims, WSJ, 19 Dec. 2020
  • Over a span of years, as Saint-Gobain marches towards carbon net neutrality, the choices will get harder.
    — Steve Banker, Forbes, 19 Jan. 2022
  • The big ISPs would have geared up to take advantage of the new regime, had not California and other states stepped into the void by enacting their own net neutrality laws.
    — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 26 Apr. 2024
  • Also, the Senate voted to save net neutrality, though that effort isn't likely to become law.
    — Fox News, 12 June 2018
  • Also, the Senate voted to save net neutrality, though that effort isn’t likely to become law.
    — Washington Post, 11 June 2018
  • The group has also condemned the U.S. decision against net neutrality.
    — Daniel Wilson, sacbee, 21 June 2018
  • The 3-2 vote along political party lines restores something called net neutrality – a policy that ensures your internet service provider doesn’t block or slow legal traffic, or charge more to deliver some content more quickly.
    — Betty Lin-Fisher, USA TODAY, 26 Apr. 2024
  • Advocates and experts also say net neutrality is positive for consumers.
    — Betty Lin-Fisher and Amritpal Kaur Sandhu-Longoria, USA TODAY, 25 Apr. 2024

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