Towards the end of 2009, the FCC began drafting new rules that would include a series of proposals that would prevent telecommunications, cable and wireless companies from blocking certain information on the Internet. FCC Chair Julius Genachowski proposed to add two rules to the current FCC policy statement in 2005, viz., the nondiscrimination principle that ISPs must not discriminate against any content or applications, and the transparency principle, requiring that ISPs disclose all their policies to customers.
Towards the end of 2009, the FCC initiated a process of creating new regulations with the aim of preventing Internet Service Providers from restricting access to specific online information. In 2005, FCC Chair Julius Genachowski suggested two amendments to the existing policy: one requiring ISPs not to discriminate against any content or applications and another necessitating that ISPs provide customers with clear information about their policies.