From WNYC in New York, this is On the Media.

Brooke Gladstone is off this week, preparing a show about video games for next week, which will blow your mind.

I'm Bob Garfield, and all I've got is net neutrality.

The federal communications approved the first regulations covering high-speed internet access in a vote today.

The Federal Communications Commission today approved a controversial new policy it says will provide all users equal access to the Internet.

Republican lawmakers vowing to fight what they are calling a job killer today.

In an effort to keep access to the Internet equally open to all comers without stifling economic

opportunity and innovation, the Federal Communications Commission issued a rule this week

mandating more transparency from internet service providers and limiting their ability to give

preferential treatment to the biggest players, at least on wired connections.

But the rule was immediately lambasted by critics on the left, who say the regulation is too weak,

and also by critics on the right, who believe that government's intervention is heavy-handed and burdensome to the private sector.

Reporter Amy Schott, who covers the FCC for the Wall Street Journal,

has broken down the stakes of the debate,

which she believes is far from over.

The idea of net neutrality is that all legal internet traffic

should be able to be accessed by consumers

without anybody getting in the way of blocking or slowing what you look at.

So give me an example of what Internet service providers could do that would be deemed not neutral.

A couple years ago, Comcast Corp actually was deliberately slowing some of its subscribers

traffic because there were some subscribers who were downloading a lot of

video files off these file sharing networks. And Comcast found that it was slowing down other

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