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ISPs Claim Title II Regulations Don't Apply To the Internet Because "Computers"

Posted by timothy on from the preemptive-chewbacca-defense dept.

New submitter Gryle writes: ArsTechnica is reporting on an interesting legal tactic by ISPs in the net neutrality fight. In a 95-page brief the United States Telecom Association claims Internet access qualifies as information service, not a telecommunication service, because it involves computer processing. The brief further claims "The FCC's reclassification of mobile broadband internet access as a common-carrier service is doubly unlawful." (page 56)

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  1. Interesting argument by gcnaddict · · Score: 5, Insightful

    ...except it all falls on its face because ultimately, the networks of computers are being used to communicate data between humans and other computers. hence telecommunication.

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  2. United States Telecom Association by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    The United States Telecom Association is arguing that its biggest service is not a telecom. Right...

  3. Re:Common carriers are for cows. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    The Fox sez " Vote republican"