Net neutrality represents an important win for democracy

By The Sunlight Foundation Tom Wheeler, chairman of the FCC. (Photo credit: ALA Washington Office/Flickr) Today, over one year after the Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia struck down the Federal Communications Commission's rules — and after one of the most ferocious advocacy battles in American history — the FCC has formally sided in favor of a neutral Internet. Net neutrality has proven itself to be a defining point for advocacy in America. Participation in the political process, especially in the more obscure field of administrative procedure, will for generations be defined in the context of the public outcry we've all seen on this issue. That engagement, led by many groups that Sunlight works with – on both sides of the aisle and on both sides of the net neutrality issue – was stunning. Millions submitted comments into a system utterly foreign to them in an effort to make their voices heard.



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