I'm urging the Federal Communications Commission to do everything they can to protect net neutrality for everyone.

But even with the president behind it, net neutrality is still clinging for life. From WNYC in New York,

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You will find yourself and in all your dirt, filth, evil, and moronic talk exposed on the record for all time.

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From WNYC in New York, this is on the media.

I'm Brooke Gladstone.

And I'm Bob Garfield.

We thought it was dead.

Network neutrality, the principle that all internet traffic should be treated equally by broadband providers.

Net neutrality has wide support, but also rabid opponents in telecoms and other ISPs

who have the money and influence to kill policies dead, dead.

But then, on Monday, net neutrality was resuscitated by an unlikely paramedic.

That's why I'm laying out a plan to keep the internet free and open.

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