U.S. President Barack Obama on Monday said that the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) should set new rules protecting net neutrality and ensuring that neither a cable company nor a phone company will be able to act as a gatekeeper, restricting what you can do or see online. The FCC has received nearly 4 million comments after Chairman Tom Wheeler proposed new rules that prohibited Internet service providers from blocking any content, but allowed deals where content providers would pay ISPs to ensure smooth delivery of traffic.

Obama campaigned on the issue of net neutrality - internet providers should have treat Internet traffic equally. He believes that ensuring a free and open Internet is the only way we can preserve the Internet's power to connect our world and asked the FCC to implement the strongest possible rules to protect net neutrality rules.

Obama said no to internet access blocking, throttling and asked for transparency in the connection between consumers, ISPs and the rest of the Internet. He also asked for no paid prioritization -- no service should be stuck in a "slow lane" because it does not pay a fee. The U.S. President added that the FCC should make these rules fully applicable to mobile broadband as well.