FCC May Tweak Broadband Plan

adeelarshad82 writes "Despite a recent ruling that said the FCC did not have the right to interfere in Comcast's network management issues, the agency is pushing ahead with its national broadband plan, though there might be some tweaks. Since the case was won on the fact that the FCC based its decision on its Internet Policy Principles, a set of guidelines the agency developed internally several years ago regarding broadband Internet service and not actual rules that went through a formal, open rulemaking process, they are invalid, as is the enforcement action. FCC general counsel Austin Schlick acknowledged that the court's decision may affect a significant number of important plan recommendations. The commission is assessing the implications of the decision for each recommendation to ensure that it has adequate authority to execute the mission laid out in the plan."

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Sad to see that

[Compaqt]

Verizon's trolling may have had an effect on the FCC.

Without high-speed broadband, the US won't remain *first* in the technology race.

In a *post*-industrial economy, digital infrastructure is the most important thing the government can invest in.

Too bad the Feds decided putting hundreds of billions of dollars into Wall Street was a bigger priority.

Re:Add an amendment to the constitution...

[commodore64_love]

>>>[granting power to Congress to regulate commerce INSIDE the states] would be against the very foundation of our country and the concept of state sovereignty

- It would make us look like the European Union.
Which is why any such amendment to the US would
likely fail to pass, and we can stop this nonsense
of Congress regulating inside our bedrooms, bathrooms, et cetera.