The ranking member of the House Energy and Commerce Committee today urged the Federal Communications Commission to reclassify broadband service as a utility and to promulgate rules that would prohibit providers from creating paid fast lanes.

Faced with continuing criticism over a recent psychological experiment on users, Facebook said today that it will impose some new limits on its researchers. "We're committed to doing research to make Facebook better, but we want to do it in the most responsible way," Chief Technology Officer Mike Schroepfer said today in a blog post.

Federal Communications Commission Chairman Tom Wheeler strongly hinted today that the agency plans to invalidate state laws that prevent municipalities from building their own broadband networks.