Image: Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images Shortly after coming into office, President Joe Biden moved to restore net neutrality. He signed a sweeping executive order to promote competition, calling on the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to bring back the Obama-era internet rules rolled back by the Trump administration. But close to two years later, the FCC remains deadlocked with only four of its five commissioner slots filled — and Biden may be running out of time. Biden’s pick for a new FCC commissioner was Gigi Sohn, a former…
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