The Federal Communications Commission has voted in favor of historic rules to preserve a free and open Internet. After a record four million public comments, the FCC approved rules to prevent corporate Internet service providers from blocking access to websites, slowing down content or providing paid fast lanes for Internet service. This is FCC Chair Tom Wheeler.

Tom Wheeler: “This is no more a plan to regulate the Internet than the First Amendment is a plan to regulate free speech. They both stand for the same concept: openness, expression and an absence of gatekeepers telling people what they can do, where they can go and what they can think. The action that we take today is about the protection of Internet openness.”

We will have more on net neutrality after headlines.