Sen Rubio Says Court Should Overturn Network Neutrality Rules

In a speech outlining his communications priorities, Sen Marco Rubio (R-FL) told a Free State Foundation forum audience that he hopes the Federal Communications Commission's network neutrality rules are overturned and warned against classifying Internet access under Title II as a backstop.

He said they were chiefly keeping the Internet free of regulation foreign and domestic, making sure enough spectrum was being freed up, and FCC process reform. All that came under a philosophical umbrella of light-touch regulation that spurs investment in the economy. He criticized legacy regulations unsuited to a digital world, saying the market had moved past brick-sized phones and giant desk-top computers and that it was time Congress moved past the 1996 Telecommunications Act.