From smart wearables like the Apple Watch or Garmin trackers to the celebrity-sported Oura ring and trendy WHOOP strap, health tech has come a long way from just tracking your steps.

“There’s lots of different metrics now that we can begin to look at,” says Dr. Davin Lundquist, family physician and chief medical officer at Augmedix. “Anytime that we can have a greater awareness of our health and paying attention to it, it tends to influence behavior in a positive way.”

Here are four that doctors say can be useful to monitor:

Sleep

Most healthy adults can benefit from sleep tracking to some level, says Dr. Carlos M. Nunez, chief medical officer at medical device company ResMed.

“Many users aren’t tracking the right information and can end up fixating or misinterpreting the data rather than observing the larger trends that the trackers can help to indicate,” Nunez says. “Users should start by tracking their sleep-wake cycle to establish a consistent routine of quality sleep, which research has shown can lead to improved concentration, increased productivity and feeling overall more positive.”

Heart rate

Tracking your heart rate can give you a picture into your heart health. The lower your resting heart rate, within reason, the healthier your heart is, explains Lundquist.

“If you’re doing more aerobic exercise, over time, your resting heart rate should decline. And that would be an indication that your heart is getting healthier,” he says.

Respiratory rate

“Certain devices can also provide insight into potential key health indicators – such as your respiratory rates, activity level and more,” Nunez says. “For some users, the data can also indicate how your body is responding to stress.”

Respiratory rate is a metric that may alert someone to other health issues, too. That’s something Michael Snyder, a Stanford School of Medicine professor who has studied smartwatches, experienced firsthand after coming down with COVID-19. Though he took a COVID test that came back negative, his own research app alerted him to sudden changes in his breathing and heart rates.

“I listened to my COVID test, and I should have listened my smartwatch,” he told CBS Newsin a 2022 interview.

Cardiac rhythm

Tracking metrics like cardiac rhythm may help alert patients to a bigger problems.

“I had a patient whose Apple Watch told them that they had a run of atrial fibrillation,” Lundquist said. “We got this person into a cardiologist — sure enough, it was confirmed and the patient was adequately treated.”

“Afib (atrial fibrillation) is a big deal,” cardiologist Dr. Tara Narula told “CBS Mornings” in 2018 as Apple rolled out electrocardiogram technology in its smartwatches to help detect the heart issue. “It affects millions of Americans, increases hospitalization rates (and) increases death and heart failure.”

It also increases risk for potentially debilitating strokes by five times, she added.

“The problem with afib is that it can be asymptomatic, so you can be walking around and not know you have it while you’re at increased risk of stroke,” she explained, noting that a tracking device could help empower patients, but could also lead to false alarm: “Anxiety, false positives, flooding doctors’ offices with calls. There are definitely downsides, but I think this has the potential to really be very helpful down the road,”

How accurate is the data?

Health trackers have come a long way, doctors says, but you shouldn’t rely on these devices for 100% accuracy or diagnosis. The FDA has specifically warned against any device that claims to measure blood sugar without needles, since inaccuracies could lead to serious health consequences.

For other types of tracking, “The accuracy of some of the smartwatches is still a little bit in question, although with each generation they’re getting better. So I think overall, physicians are getting more confident in trusting these devices,” Lundquist says. Plus, as he points out, users also have to take off the device to charge, meaning data won’t be recorded 24/7.

While trackers can be a “valuable tool for many,” Nunez says the data shouldn’t be used to diagnose serious sleep or health issues.

“Ultimately, sleep tracking devices can help to empower users to set and achieve health goals but are not a substitute for formal diagnosis or professional medical care,” he says.

They can also help physicians partner with their patients, Lundquist says.

“As these applications become more mainstream, the ability to show up in your with your doctor’s appointment, pull up your phone and show them your metrics would be a great way for us to partner with our patients and help them see where there’s potential opportunities or problems,” he says.

A man imprisoned since last year has been indicted on murder and other charges in the 2012 slaying of a retired farmer found shot to death in his western Indiana home, police said Wednesday.

A Sullivan County grand jury indicted William Ray Grimes on charges of murder, burglary and conspiracy to commit burglary in the December 2012 slaying of Lowell Badger, state police said.

Badger, 85, died during a burglary at his rural Sullivan County home about 30 miles south of Terre Haute. Badger was found dead on the bedroom floor, and a 46-inch TV and safe were taken from his home, Indiana State Policepreviously said.

Grimes, 38, is currently incarcerated at the Wabash Valley Correctional Facility in nearby Carlisle serving a 2023 sentence for battery, theft and unlawful possession of a firearm. The Indiana Department of Correction databaseshows Grimes’ earliest release date is Jan. 2, 2053.

A phone message seeking comment was left for an attorney who represented him in that case.

“This is the beginning of the criminal process,” special prosecutor Rob Roberts said in a news release. “Once again, we encourage anyone that has information related to the murder of Mr. Badger to contact the Indiana State Police.”

A phone message was left for Roberts requesting details on what led investigators to Grimes and other information.

Police investigators in December 2021 renewed their plea for information about Badger’s killing. It came a year after police released photos showing vehicles that may have been in the area around the time Badger was killed. Those photos were taken from a gas station’s security video in nearby Graysville, a few miles east of the Illinois state line.

Detectives as of December 2021 had investigated more than 275 tips, conducted nearly 170 interviews and searched many areas of land and water in the Sullivan County area as part of the investigation. The Sullivan County Seriff’s Office previously said law enforcement had used aircraft all-terrain vehicles, boats, and SCUBA divers to search the area.

A reward of about $30,000 was offered for information leading to the arrest and conviction of those responsible for Badger’s death.

London — “And so, I watch as you walk into some bar called The Black Dog and pierce new holes in my heart.”

As Taylor Swift’s “The Tortured Poets Department” album continues breaking records, that ambiguous reference in the song “The Black Dog” has elevated a small London pub of the same name to new heights.

The moody lyrics from the 34-year-old superstar allude to watching an ex-partner who had forgotten to turn off his location setting on his phone going to the bar.

As soon as the album — which by Thursday had broken Spotify’s streaming record with more than 1 billion streams — dropped last week, devoted fans of the American songstress nailed down the whereabouts of the unassuming British watering hole, and they descended upon it.

It didn’t take self-proclaimed Swifties long to establish that her British ex-boyfriend, actor Joe Alwyn, lives near Vauxhall, not far from the local pub.

“We have had to turn customers away every single day since the release of the album. It’s been a fantastic experience for the pub and our team to be a part of,” Amy Crowley, a marketing manager for The Black Dog, told CBS News on Wednesday.

The pub has taken full advantage of its newfound fame, adding Taylor Swift-themed drinks and food to its menu. The business has even started selling merchandise, Crowley said.

CBS News met some of Swift’s superfans who made the pilgrimage to The Black Dog, and who were very happy to sample an “Aperol Spritz (Taylor’s Version)” cocktail.

Gracie and Ethan, siblings from Texas who were on their first and only day vacationing in the U.K., said they just had to visit the site, given its connection to their cultural hero.

“We went to the Crown Jewels, [we have] Les Mis tonight, and then The Black Dog — which is all on the same level of importance,” they said with a laugh.

London-born artist and fellow Swiftie Chris Lloyd was positioned outside the pub, drawing its exterior, when we arrived.

“I feel like it’s so cool that she’s knitted a bit of London into her tracks and into her history,” he said. “So, it’s cool because you can see the Swifties from London around here just feeling a little bit closer to her, a little bit more connected.”

New York-born sisters Jaquelyn and Daniella even got marked for life to express their passion for Swift while vacationing in London.

“We actually got matching tattoos inspired by Taylor here – I love you to moon and to Saturn, which is from the song ‘Seven,'” explained Daniella. “So my sister got the moon, and I got Saturn, for Taylor.”

Paris— A famous landmark in the French capital looked very different Thursday morning. The sails of the iconic Moulin Rouge fell to the ground overnight – leaving the red windmill looking unusually bare.

The entertainment venue’s owners said it was unclear how the sails fell — taking the first three letters of the Moulin Rouge sign with them – but they vowed to repair the structure and said there was no further damage to it.

The bar on the roof behind the windmill closed at midnight and the last cabaret show ended an hour later — and the structure was still intact at that point.

“It’s sad, just sad,” said Danish tourist Lars Thygesen as he looked at the building on Thursday.

“I hope they will build it up again, so it will be as it always has been, the old Moulin Rouge,” added his partner Lise.

Moulin Rouge’s director, Jean-Victor Clerico, said there was no sign of intentional damage, saying the collapse was “obviously a technical problem.”

“We’ll rise to the challenge,” Clerico said, according to French news agency AFP. “The Moulin Rouge is 135 years old, so it’s seen all kinds of things.”

American carpenter helping rebuild Paris’ fire-ravaged Notre Dame cathedral

The incident comes only about three months before the opening ceremony of the 2024 Paris Summer Olympics, which are expected to draw millions of visitors to the city.

The Moulin Rouge’s famous daily cabaret shows draw hundreds of thousands of visitors every year and, as AFP notes, thousands more stop to admire and snap pictures of the quirky building at the foot of Paris’ Montmartre hill from the outside.

Italy’s Culture Ministry has banned loans of works to the Minneapolis Institute of Art, following a dispute with the U.S. museum over an ancient marble statue believed to have been looted from Italy almost a half-century ago.

The dispute began in March 2022 when an Italian court ruled that the Minneapolis museum was irregularly in possession of the Stabiae Doriforo, a Roman-era copy of The Doryphoros of Polykleitos, an ancient Greek sculpture.

Rome claims that the sculpture was looted in the 1970s from an archaeological site at Stabiae, an ancient city close to Pompeii that was also covered by lava and ashes when Mount Vesuvius erupted in A.D. 79.

Massimo Osanna, director general of national museums for Italy’s Ministry of Culture, confirmed the ban in a statement given to WCCO on Thursday.

“The situation for us is very clear: the statue was excavated illegally in Italy and illegally left our territory,” Osanna said. “Until the Doryphoros will be returned, there will be no further cooperation from our entire national museum system with the museum in Minneapolis.”

In February 2022, Italian prosecutors issued an international warrant for the artwork to be impounded and returned. At a news conference earlier this year, Nunzio Fragliasso, chief prosecutor at the Torre Annunziata court, said they were “still awaiting a response.”

In 1984, while the work was on display in a German museum, Italy initiated a legal proceeding to claim it. The claim was denied in 1986. The U.S. museum, which bought the statue in 1986 for $2.5 million, said it was purchased from art dealer Elie Borowski and imported into the United States.

“Since that time, the work has been publicly displayed and extensively published,” the Minneapolis museum said in a statement. “While it takes issue with recent press reports regarding the Doryphoros, Mia (the museum) believes that the media is not an appropriate forum to address unproven allegations.”

The museum asserted that it has always acted “responsibly and proactively” with respect to claims related to its collection. However, it added, “where proof has not been provided, as well as where Mia has evidence reasonably demonstrating that a claim is not supported, Mia has declined to transfer the work.”

The museum called Italy’s new ban on loans “contrary to decades of exchanges between museums.”

The Minnesota Institute of Art originally opened its doors in 1915. The museum expanded in 1974 and 2006.

There are more than 89,000 objects held in the museum.

Finding a place to live in New York City isn’t always easy, but for those who can afford it, the city is filled with hidden and iconic gems — including one that’s about as “New York, New York” as they come. Frank Sinatra and Mia Farrow’s former home, a 19th century townhouse on the Upper East Side, is now up for grabs.

The home on East 61st Street is “a piece of history,” according to its Zillow listing.

“Once owned by the legendary Frank Sinatra himself during his marriage to actress Mia Farrow,” the listing says. “…Held within the family since Sinatra’s tenure, this distinguished townhouse presents a rare opportunity for restoration and renewal in the Treadwell Farm Historic District.”

But wait, the “best is yet to come.” As every New Yorker knows, space is a luxury, and this place has plenty of it.

The listing says the Upper East Side home is four stories and has more than 10 rooms, including four bedrooms, four-and-a-half bathrooms and garden space, all spanning over 3,700 feet. A lower level of the home boasts another 933 feet.

According to the listing, the townhouse was originally built in 1872. Architect Frederick Sterner, who according to The New York Timeswas known for giving entire blocks makeovers in the early 1900s, later modified the home in 1919. This townhouse, the listing says, “epitomizes timeless elegance and architectural distinction.”

That elegance and distinction, of course, comes at a cost. The townhouse is listed for just under $4.5 million.

As recounted byPeople magazine, the couple met in 1964 when Farrow was 19 and Sinatra was nearly 50. They got married in Las Vegas in 1966, but the marriage only lasted two years. While Farrow was filming “Rosemary’s Baby,” she was served divorce papers. However, the two remained close until his death in 1998.

Speaking to Vanity Fair in 2013, Farrow said Sinatra could “possibly” be the father of her son, Ronan Farrow. And when she was asked if Sinatra had been the “great love” of her life, she had a short and simple answer: “Yes.”

The pace of babies born each year in the U.S. has slowed to a new record low, according to an analysis of 2023 birth certificate data published Thursday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Last year’s slowdown marks an official end to the uptick in new babies that began during the COVID-19pandemic. At least 3,591,328 babies were born in the U.S. in 2023, down 2% from the 3,667,758 born in 2022.

This is on par with annual declines seen before the pandemic, the report said, which averaged around 2% fewer babies each year.

There were already signs in the year before that a pandemic surge in births was coming to an end. There were slightly fewer babies born in 2022 compared to 2021, though agency officials said at the time that this drop was not large enough to be considered a statistically significant decline.

“Last year, the difference was very small. This year, it’s something on the order of 74,000 or thereabouts. So it’s fairly large,” the CDC’s Brady Hamilton, one of the report’s authors, told CBS News.

While records for nearly 100% of registered births have already been reported to the agency, the report’s estimates remain “provisional estimates” until the last remaining data is reported in.

Thursday’s new report by CDC’s National Center for Health Statistics comes from closely watched data on birth certificates that the agency collects from state and local authorities throughout the year. The report was released earlier this year. Last year’s provisional report did not come out until June.

“We got started early and kept up the momentum, and this is how we managed to get this early release,” said Hamilton.

Total fertility rate falls

Last year’s total of new births adds up to a rate of 1,616.5 births per 1,000 women in the U.S. This figure, called the total fertility rate, calculates the average number of births that women will have over their lifetimes if current rates stay the same.

Unless the U.S. reaches 2,100 births per 1,000 — which works out to an average of 2.1 children per woman — the total population could shrink without other influxes of people. U.S. Census Bureau estimates have chalked up recent population growth to rebounding immigration and a drop in deaths.

The U.S. total fertility rate has been below what is needed to replace deaths of previous generations since 1971.

“Think about that in terms of the woman and her partner. So if you have a total fertility rate of two, you’re replacing him and you’re replacing her in the population. It has to be 2.1 to compensate for mortality,” said Hamilton.

The number of new births in 2023 was flat or declined from 2022 for most groups except Hispanic women, who saw an increase of 1%.

Teen birth rates plateau

Birth rates by age group were also down or unchanged from 2022 to 2023 for virtually all women, young and old. This includes women ages 40 to 44 years old, who had previously seen the pace of new babies born rise for almost every year since 1985.

However, aonce plummeting rate of teen births has gradually flattened in recent years, falling 3% from 2022 to 2023. For every 1,000 female teens ages 15 to 19 years old, 13.2 births were reported.

“It’s important to remember that if you look at the years prior to that, 2007 to 2022, the rate for teen births 15 to 19 was declining by 7% on average. And now it’s declining by 2 and 3%. So the question is why,” said Hamilton.

“We need to look into finding out why it’s only declining half of what it has been doing, and it could be a number of factors. There’s a lot to be investigated and pieced out.”

The decline was smallest among younger teens, ages 15 to 17 years old, whose birth rate was virtually unchanged from 2022.

Cesarean deliveries increase again

According to the CDC’s new report, 32.4% of new births were cesarean deliveries in 2023, up from 32.1% in 2022’s figures.

This marks the fourth increase in a row in the rate of C-sections in the wake of the pandemic, after rates had slowed from 2009 through 2019.

Cesarean delivery rates are highest among Black moms, climbing to 37% last year. Rates also inched up for Asian, White and Hispanic women.

Among low-risk births, cesarean deliveries have climbed to 26.6%. Low-risk deliveries are defined as head-first births of single babies at full term, at least 37 weeks in, to moms who have never had children before.

This is the highest rate since 2013, the report says.

Washington — Coal-fired power plants would be forced to capture smokestack emissions or shut down under a rule issued Thursday by the Environmental Protection Agency.

New limits on greenhouse gas emissions from fossil fuel-fired electric plants are the Biden administration’s most ambitious effort yet to roll back planet-warming pollution from the power sector, the nation’s second-largest contributor to climate change. The rules are a key part of President Biden’s pledge to eliminate carbon pollution from the electricity sector by 2035 and economy-wide by 2050.

The rule was among four separate measures targeting coal and natural gas plants that the EPA said would provide “regular certainty” to the power industry and encourage it to make investments to transition “to a clean energy economy.” They also include requirements to reduce toxic wastewater pollutants from coal-fired plants and to safely manage so-called coal ash in unlined storage ponds.

The new rules “reduce pollution from fossil fuel-fired power plants, protect communities from pollution and improve public health – all while supporting the long-term, reliable supply of the electricity needed to power America forward,″ EPA Administrator Michael Regan told reporters at a White House briefing.

The plan is likely to be challenged by industry groups and Republican-leaning states. They have repeatedly accused the Democratic administration of overreach on environmental regulations and have warned of a looming reliability crisis for the electric grid. The rules issued Thursday are among at least a half-dozen EPA rules limiting power plant emissions and wastewater pollution.

Environmental groups hailed the EPA’s latest action as urgently needed to protect against the devastating harms of climate change.

The power plant rule marks the first time the federal government has restricted carbon dioxide emissions from existing coal-fired power plants. The rule also would force future electric plants fueled by coal or gas to control up to 90% of their carbon pollution. The new standards will avoid 1.38 billion metric tons of carbon pollution through 2047, equivalent to the annual emissions of 328 million gas cars, the EPA said, and will provide hundreds of billions of dollars in climate and health benefits, measured in fewer premature deaths, asthma cases and lost work or school days.

Coal plants that plan to stay open beyond 2039 would have to cut or capture 90% of their carbon dioxide emissions by 2032, the EPA said. Plants that expect to retire by 2039 would face a less stringent standard but still would have to capture some emissions. Coal plants that are set to retire by 2032 would not be subject to the new rules.

Rich Nolan, president and CEO of the National Mining Association, said that through the latest rules, “the EPA is systematically dismantling the reliability of the U.S. electric grid.”

He accused Mr. Biden, Regan and other officials of “ignoring our energy reality and forcing the closure of well-operating coal plants that repeatedly come to the rescue during times of peak demand. The repercussions of this reckless plan will be felt across the country by all Americans.”

Regan denied that the rules were aimed at shutting down the coal sector, but acknowledged in proposing the power plant rule last year that, “We will see some coal retirements.”

The proposal relies on technologies to limit carbon pollution that the industry itself has said are viable and available, Regan said. “Multiple power companies have indicated that (carbon capture and storage) is a viable technology for the power sector today, and they are currently pursuing those CCS projects,” he told reporters Wednesday.

Coal provided about 16% of U.S. electricity last year, down from about 45% in 2010. Natural gas provides about 43% of U.S. electricity, with the remainder from nuclear energy and renewables such as wind, solar and hydropower.

Environmentalists laud EPA moves

The power plant rule “completes a historic grand slam” of major actions by the Biden administration to reduce carbon pollution, said David Doniger, a climate and clean energy expert at the Natural Resources Defense Council. The first and most important action was passage of the 2022 climate law, officially known as the Inflation Reduction Act, he said, followed by separate EPA rules targeting tailpipe emissions from cars and trucks and methane emissions from oil and gas drilling.

Together, the climate law and the suite of EPA rules “are the biggest reductions in carbon pollution we’ve ever made and will put the country on the pathway to zero out carbon emissions,” Doniger said in an interview.

The nation still faces challenges in eliminating carbon from transportation, heavy industry and more, said Abigail Dillen, president of the environmental group Earthjustice, “but we can’t make progress on any of it without cleaning up the power plants.”

Industry blasts them

Jim Matheson, CEO of the National Rural Electric Cooperative Association, called the EPA rule “unlawful, unrealistic and unachievable,” adding that it faced a certain court challenge. The rule disregards the Supreme Court’s 2022 decision that limited the agency’s ability to regulate carbon pollution under the Clean Air Act, Matheson said. It also relies on technologies “that are promising, but not ready for prime time,″ he said.

“This barrage of new EPA rules ignores our nation’s ongoing electric reliability challenges and is the wrong approach at a critical time for our nation’s energy future,” said Matheson, whose association represents 900 local electric cooperatives across the country.

The EPA rule wouldn’t mandate use of equipment to capture and store carbon emissions – a technology that’s expensive and still being developed. Instead, the agency would set caps on carbon dioxide pollution that plant operators would have to meet. Some natural gas plants could start blending gas with other fuel sources that don’t emit carbon, although specific actions would be left to industry.

Still, the regulation is expected to lead to greater use of carbon capture equipment. Only a handful of projects are operating in the country despite years of research.

Other new EPA steps

The EPA also tightened rules aimed at reducing wastewater pollution from coal-fired power plants and preventing harm from toxic pits of coal ash, a waste byproduct of burning coal.

Coal ash contains cancer-causing substances like arsenic and mercury that can leach into the ground, drinking water and nearby rivers and streams, harming people and killing fish. The waste is commonly stored in ponds near power plants. The EPA issued rules in 2015 to regulate active and new ponds at operating facilities, seven years after a disaster in Kingston, Tennessee that flooded two rivers with toxic waste and destroyed property.

Environmental groups challenged that rule, arguing it left a large amount of coal ash waste unregulated by the federal government. The rule issued Thursday forces owners to safely close inactive coal ash ponds and clean up contamination.

A separate rule would reduce toxic wastewater pollution by 660 million pounds annually, according to federal officials. It’s a reversal of the Trump administration’s push to loosen coal plant wastewater standards.

“For the first time, we have seen a comprehensive set of standards that protects the surrounding waterways from the extremely nasty water pollution that comes off these coal-fired sites,” said Frank Holleman, attorney with the Southern Environmental Law Center.

The Federal Trade Commission is sending more than $5.6 million in refunds to people who purchased Amazon’s Ring camera during a time when the devices were potentially being used to violate their privacy.

Payments are coming to 117,044 consumers who had certain types of Ring devices, the result of a settlement of allegations Amazon let employees and contractors access people’s videos, the FTC said in a statement earlier this week.

Recipients will receive a PayPal payment of $150.00 or $47.70, the agency told CBS MoneyWatch. The refund amountdepended on several factors, including the type of Ring device owned and when the consumer had the account.

People should redeem their PayPal payment within 30 days, the FTC said.

The refunds come nearly a year after the regulator and Amazon settled claims the company failed to protect customer security, leading in some cases to hackers threatening or sexually propositioning Ring owners.

In a statement to CBS News at the time, Amazon said its Ring division “promptly addressed these issues on its own years ago, well before the FTC began its inquiry.”

“While we disagree with the FTC’s allegations and deny violating the law, this settlement resolves this matter so we can focus on innovating on behalf of our customers,” the e-commerce company said.

Some of the allegations outlined by the lawsuit occurred prior to Amazon’s acquisition of Ring in 2018. For instance, an alleged incident with an employee who viewed videos belonging to 81 women occurred in 2017.

Internet service providers can no longer fiddle with how quickly — or not — customers are able to browse the web or download files, the Federal Communications Commission ruled Thursday.

The 3-2 vote to adopt net neutrality regulations, which block wireless companies from selectively speeding up, slowing down or blocking users’ internet traffic, restores a policy that was discarded during the Trump administration.

The reversal also paves the way for a legal fight with the broadband industry. The development is the latest in a years-long feud between regulators and ISPs, with the former arguing that protections are necessary to ensure all websites are treated the same, and the latter rejecting the rules as government overstep.

In first proposing the revived rule in September, FCC Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel said the agency wanted to expand high-speed internet access and protect personal data. Net neutrality was first passed by the agency in 2015, but was later rescinded in 2017 under then-FCC Chair Ajit Pai.

Consumer advocates cheered the reversal, with advocacy group Fight for the Future calling it a win for activists and civil rights groups who have argued that the regulation is needed to ensure telecom companies treat customers equally.

For instance, companies won’t be able to impose additional fees for some sites to load faster than others, akin to toll lanes on the internet, under net neutrality.

“People from across the political spectrum overwhelmingly agree they don’t want their phone company to dictate how they use the Internet,” said Fight for the Future director Evan Greer in a statement. “We are thrilled that the FCC is finally reclaiming its responsibility to protect consumers from the worst harms of big telecom.”

USTelecom, however, blasted the FCC vote, with the trade group’s president and CEO, Jonathan Spalter, calling net neutrality a “nonissue for broadband customers, who have enjoyed an open internet for decades.”

Republican commissioners at the FCC also derided the new rules, with one, Brendan Carr, declaring “the internet in America has thrived in the absence of 1930s command-and-control regulation by the government.”