FCC Says It Will Vote On Net Neutrality In February

schwit1 sends this report from the Washington Post: Federal regulators looking to place restrictions on Internet providers will introduce and vote on new proposed net neutrality rules in February, Federal Communications Commission officials said Friday. President Obama's top telecom regulator, Tom Wheeler, told fellow FCC commissioners before the Christmas holiday that he intends to circulate a draft proposal internally next month with an eye toward approving the measure weeks later, said one official who spoke on the condition of anonymity because the agency's deliberations are ongoing. The rules are meant to keep broadband providers such as Verizon and Comcast from speeding up or slowing down some Web sites compared to others.

Comments

Congressional Vote?

[Anonymous Coward]

Just curious when America's elected representatives will vote to make Net Neurtrality the law of the land, not that I think they should. Just wanted to draw attention to the fact we're now living in Bureacrastan.

Re:Congressional Vote?

[khallow]

What Congress doesn't get involved in, Congress can't damage.

Instead we have unelected bureaucrats doing the damaging. Such an improvement.

when-all-the-astroturfing-is-accounted-for dept

[Shuh]

It's interesting how this top-down regulatory move without the input of America's elected lawmakers is being characterized as the true Will Of The People. There's serious Newspeak going on here.

Fox/henhouse

[PopeRatzo]

The FCC is the last organization that should be "voting" on Net Neutrality.