Politics / Corporate-friendly judges have overturned net neutrality, and Trump’s FCC will only make things worse. John Nichols The ability of the Federal Communications Commission to establish and maintain net neutrality rules was overturned on the second day of 2025 by a trio of Republican judicial appointees on the US Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit.

A federal appeals court has ruled that the FCC overstepped its authority by reinstating "net neutrality" rules governing internet service providers.

Appeals-court decision ends effort to regulate internet providers like utilities, citing Supreme Court decision restraining federal agencies’ powers.

The FCC's net neutrality rules prevented internet service providers from throttling or blocking some content or charging more to deliver it.

In a blow to the free and open internet, a federal appeals court ruled that the FCC does not have the authority to impose net neutrality rules.

The 6th Circuit Court of Appeals blasted the FCC's attempts to regulate broadband internet, but state laws in California and New York remain intact.

Despite a federal ruling, state law protects net neutrality in California. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit Thursday struck down the Federal Communications Commission’s net neutrality rules that prevented internet service providers from blocking content or charging more to deliver it,