18 Groups Want 2020 Candidates to Pledge Net Neutrality 'Restoration'
Eighteen groups launched a petition asking all 2020 presidential candidates to pledge to support restoring 2015 net neutrality rules and reject contributions from phone and cable company executives, lobbyists and political action committees. “It’s imperative all presidential candidates make restoring…
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net neutrality a top priority” because Senate GOP leaders are blocking passage the Save the Internet Act (see 1906110038), the Monday petition said. HR-1644/S-682, which the House passed in April, would reverse the FCC rescinding the rules and restore reclassification of broadband as a Communications Act Title II service (see 1904100062). Seventeen of the 21 current Democratic hopefuls declared support for restoring in some form the rules, most providing little detail. Ex-Vice President Joe Biden, former Housing and Urban Development Secretary Julian Castro, Miramar, Florida, Mayor Wayne Messam and businessman Tom Steyer haven't taken a position. Their campaigns didn't comment. Color of Change, Common Cause, Demand Progress, Fight for the Future and Free Press Action Fund were among petitioners.