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SALT LAKE CITY — Sen. Mike Lee introduced a bill Monday to nullify the Federal Communications Commission's 2015 open internet order and stop the FCC from issuing a similar rule in the future.

Lee argues that the rule threatens business growth because it puts federal bureaucrats in charge of engineering the internet's infrastructure.

"Few areas of our economy have been as dynamic and innovative as the internet,” he said. "This is largely because the federal government has taken a hands-off approach that has allowed permissionless innovation to deliver unthinkable technological advances in such a short amount of time."

The legislation, called the Restoring Internet Freedom Act, has eight Republican co-sponsors.

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