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Appeals Court Rejects ISP Stay of Neutrality Rules
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."
The first of many wins hopefully
Wonder how that's going to work out tomorrow.
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.
Most of those pages are comments and supporting information, not regulations.
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.
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.
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.
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.
...omphaloskepsis often...