Critics attack FCC as it releases new rules to protect net neutrality

Last month FCC voted to approve new powers to oversee broadband internet after Obama called for regulators to maintain a free and open internet

After a year of acrimonious wrangling, threats and an unprecedented online campaign, the Federal Communications Commission on Thursday finally released its new rules on regulating the internet.

The 313-page document is now being scrutinised by an army of communications lawyers as the cable and telecoms industry considers whether - or more likely when - to sue the regulator in the hopes of overturning the new rules.