Biden-Sanders 'Unity' Task Force Calls for FCC Restoration of Net Neutrality
A “unity” task force set up by former Vice President Joe Biden and former 2020 Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., recommended Wednesday the Democrats’ policy platform call for the FCC to “restore” its “clear authority to take strong…
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enforcement action against broadband providers who violate net neutrality principles.” Biden, the Democrats’ presumptive 2020 presidential nominee, has been criticized for being among the few candidates for the party’s nomination who didn’t take a clear position on whether the FCC should restore its rescinded 2015 net neutrality rules (see 1908260053). The Biden-Sanders task force wants the FCC to enforce net neutrality violations involving “blocking, throttling, paid prioritization, or other measures that create artificial scarcity and raise consumer prices,” citing the need for all Americans to have “access to high-speed affordable broadband service.” The group backed barring states “from blocking municipalities and rural co-ops from building publicly-owned broadband networks, and increasing federal support for municipal broadband.” The task force also recommended Democrats “increase public investment in rural broadband infrastructure and offer low-income Americans subsidies for accessing high-speed internet through the Lifeline program.”