Biden's call to restore net neutrality: What you should know

President Joe Biden wants net neutrality regulations back on the books. In his executive order on competition, Biden urged the Federal Communications Commission to restore Obama-era net neutrality rules and to take other measures to promote broadband competition, including asking the FCC to require broadband companies to provide transparency on pricing. Net neutrality supporters applauded the executive order and calls for the FCC to restore net neutrality protections. Yet if federal net neutrality rules are reinstated, they are likely to look different from the 2015 rules and face challenges in court. Unless Congress acts on the issue, net neutrality is destined to ping-pong back and forth depending on which party controls the White House. To help you better understand what net neutrality is and why it matters, CNET has put together this fact sheet on the history, opinions and future of net neutrality.