First Lawsuits Challenging FCC's New Net Neutrality Rules Arrive

Posted by Soulskill on Monday March 23, 2015 @12:04PM from the early-bird-gets-to-throttle-the-worm's-bandwidth dept.

An anonymous reader writes: A small ISP based in Texas and an industry trade group have become the first to file lawsuits challenging the FCC's recent net neutrality rules. The trade group, USTelecom, argues that the regulations are not "legally sustainable." Alamo Broadband claims it is facing "onerous requirements" by operating under Title II of the Communications Act. Such legal challenges were expected, and are doubtless the first of many — but few expected them to arrive so soon. While some of the new rules were considered "final" once the FCC released them on March 12, others don't go into effect until they're officially published in the Federal Register, which hasn't happened yet.

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Re:actually, NSFNET came after that by MasseKid · 2015-03-23 14:58 · Score: 4, Funny

I think you meant NSFWnet, because after all, porn drives everything....
Re:May you choke on your own words by PopeRatzo · 2015-03-23 15:36 · Score: 4, Funny

Government will fuck this up - it always does.
Right. If private enterprise had been in charge of the space program, we might have sent a man to the moon by now.

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