FCC Won't Delay Vote, Says Net Neutrality Supporters Are 'Desperate' (arstechnica.com)

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: The Federal Communications Commission will move ahead with its vote to kill net neutrality rules next week despite an unresolved court case that could strip away even more consumer protections. FCC Chairman Ajit Pai says that net neutrality rules aren't needed because the Federal Trade Commission can protect consumers from broadband providers. But a pending court case involving AT&T could strip the FTC of its regulatory authority over AT&T and similar ISPs. A few dozen consumer advocacy groups and the City of New York urged Pai to delay the net neutrality-killing vote in a letter today. If the FCC eliminates its rules and the court case goes AT&T's way, there would be a "'regulatory gap' that would leave consumers utterly unprotected," the letter said. When contacted by Ars, Pai's office issued this statement in response to the letter: "This is just evidence that supporters of heavy-handed Internet regulations are becoming more desperate by the day as their effort to defeat Chairman Pai's plan to restore Internet freedom has stalled. The vote will proceed as scheduled on December 14."

Comments

If they're desperate...

[MikeDataLink]

then wouldn't a delay actually help the Reptilians... I mean Republicans?

Re:If they're desperate...

[JackieBrown]

It's funny all the twists that people do with the republican name - yet get bent out of shape if they are called Democrat instead of Democratic.

Re:If they're desperate...

[Orgasmatron]

As we all saw last year, there is nothing democratic about the Democrat party.

Re:What specific problem did NN try to solve?

[iMadeGhostzilla]

I read the front page but there is no mention of specific problems it tried to solve. Would you care to link to the specific page that has that info?

Re:What specific problem did NN try to solve?

[Marxist Hacker 42]

I still don't understand why the answer isn't to start a competing ISP