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Appeals Court Rejects ISP Stay of Neutrality Rules

Posted by samzenpus on from the go-ahead-and-do-it dept.

An anonymous reader writes: The Federal Communications Commission's net neutrality rules will go into effect Friday after a court decided not to block them. The ruling is an early win for the FCC, whose assertion of enforcement authority over ISP's is being challenged in court by cable and wireless industry groups. Techdirt reports: "According to the court order (pdf), broadband providers failed to provide 'the stringent requirements for a stay pending court review,' meaning that the FCC's new net neutrality rules will remain in place for the duration of the ISPs assault on the FCC. While the courts have promised to expedite it, a resolution to the case could still take more than a year. FCC boss Tom Wheeler was quick to take to the FCC website to applaud the ruling."

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  1. Sometimes the good guys win by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The first of many wins hopefully

  2. My Usenet has always been throttled by Trax3001BBS · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Wonder how that's going to work out tomorrow.

  3. Good and Bad by TechyImmigrant · · Score: 2

    Net neutrality is good. It is good that big ISPs are subject to it.

    However a world in which ISPs are placed within the legal framework of phone companies is bad.

    A well written net neutrality law would have been better than the FCC bringing ISPs under their wing.

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    1. Re: Good and Bad by t1oracle · · Score: 4, Informative

      Most of those pages are comments and supporting information, not regulations.

    2. Re:Good and Bad by Trax3001BBS · · Score: 3

      Thousands of pages? Have you skimmed it? http://transition.fcc.gov/Dail...

      "A person engaged in the provision of broadband Internet access service, insofar as such person is so engaged, shall not impair or degrade lawful Internet traffic on the basis of Internet content, application, or service, or use of a non-harmful device, subject to reasonable network management."

      Subject to reasonable network management - Not that that will ever be an abused argument.

    3. Re:Good and Bad by riverat1 · · Score: 3, Informative

      I think that it's actually better that the regulation started at the FCC level. The massive list of comments in favor of net neutrality is a warning to any member of Congress who would dare stand against net neutrality when the time to make legislation comes: if you stand against net neutrality, there are thousands of people who are going to do anything in their power to ensure you do not get re-elected, and no amount of corporate money is going to save you.

      That hasn't stopped the Republicans from introducing several bills to undo the rules.

    4. Re:Good and Bad by SpankiMonki · · Score: 4, Funny

      A well written net neutrality law would have been better than the FCC bringing ISPs under their wing.

      Yeah, that's one thing the US Congress excels at - enacting well written laws.

    5. Re:Good and Bad by Ryanrule · · Score: 2

      isp's were ALREADY under the domain of the fcc. dont deflect, obvious repub.

    6. Re:Good and Bad by diamondmagic · · Score: 2

      excessive internet consolidation

      Which events specifically?

      How does the FCC's rules stop this?

      What were ISPs doing before the FCC that they're not doing now?

      I know it's all popular to hate on the ISPs, but that doesn't mean we go to the government to pile on MORE layers of nastiness. I mean, the FCC can't identify any prior particular application of their own rules! The tl;dr summary of their findings is "A bunch of people came to us and expressed their concerns that sometime in the future, an ISP might start doing something nasty, so we're giving ourselves power over the Internet."

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    7. Re:Good and Bad by Jason+Levine · · Score: 2

      Yeah, that's one thing the US Congress excels at - enacting well written laws.

      Hey, Congress can enact well written laws. It just so happens that the industry that the laws benefit might be the folks who wrote the well written laws. Also "well written" doesn't neccessarily mean "protects consumers." In these cases, the laws are written well to protect the industry in their quest to get as much money and power as possible.

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    8. Re:Good and Bad by swell · · Score: 3

      It seems like a win for the good guys.

      It also looks like a power play. Now the FCC has established their turf, they are in a great bargaining position to extort favors from the telecom industry. Soon we will see the revolving door syndrome where executives of the regulator and of the regulated are playing musical chairs. One hand washes the other.

      This has been the pattern of every regulatory agency on earth. Everyone on the inside wins, everyone in the real world loses.

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    9. Re:Good and Bad by dywolf · · Score: 2

      to be fair, nothing really stops them, unless it's named Adelson, Koch, or some such.

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    10. Re:Good and Bad by Coren22 · · Score: 2

      Examples of abuses this is to prevent in the future?

      First, Comcast throttles Netflix as it competes with their own services, Netflix then is forced into paying Comcast for a connection (rather than their hosted proxies that worked for years):
      http://qz.com/256586/the-insid...

      Then Verizon decides to hop on the bandwagon, Netflix is forced into buying a connection from Verizon too, then Verizon is still throttling them:
      http://www.extremetech.com/com...

      Netflix pays for internet access already (through L3 I believe)
      I requested them to send me traffic, and I am on Verizon.
      Verizon has NO right to throttle traffic that I as a customer of theirs has requested.
      The throttling was so bad, I wasn't even able to play 320P video over my 75Mbit symmetric connection.
      They did the same thing to Youtube, constant buffering breaks in videos.

      This is not what the internet is supposed to be, I pay for a huge pipe, I should not be punished for trying to use 1/10 of it to watch a video.

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  4. Make the last mile a public utility by riverat1 · · Score: 5, Interesting

    If you make the last mile a public utility open to any content provider then you don't need to regulate them and I'm free to select my ISP from anyone who cares to compete for my business.