Obama calls on FCC to keep Internet 'free and open'

President Barack Obama has issued his strongest message yet that the Internet should be kept "free and open."

In a statement released Monday, Obama called on the Federal Communications Commission to maintain Net neutrality and ensure that Internet service providers (ISPs) are not allowed "to restrict the best access or to pick winners and losers in the online marketplace for services and ideas."

"That is why today, I am asking the Federal Communications Commission to answer the call of almost 4 million public comments, and implement the strongest possible rules to protect net neutrality," President Obama said in the statement.

The FCC is working on a new set of rules for Internet oversight in the US. Those rules were expected to be made available later this year, though reports now claim they may be delayed until early 2015. More

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