Six Tech Companies Filing Net Neutrality Lawsuit (thehill.com)

An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Hill: Six technology companies, including Kickstarter, Foursquare and Etsy, have launched a lawsuit against the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) in an effort to preserve net neutrality rules. The companies, which also include Shutterstock, Expa and Automattic, on Monday filed their petition with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. The companies join Vimeo and Mozilla, as well as several state attorneys general who have also filed lawsuits against the FCC in support of the net neutrality rules. Like the other lawsuits, their new case hinges on the Administrative Procedure Act, which they argue prevents the FCC from "arbitrary and capricious" redactions to already existing policy. "Already, over 30,000 Etsy sellers participated in the FCC's public comment process, and tens of thousands more reached out to Congress in support of net neutrality. Now we're bringing their stories and experiences to the courts," said Althea Erickson, head of advocacy and impact at Etsy.

Comments

Congress

[Tulsa_Time]

You can't sue Congress for not passing the laws you like....

Although many now turn to the Judicial Branch as a new source of defacto legislation.

Re:Congress

[Tulsa_Time]

Actually you are correct.... They hope to show that the FCC does in fact have the ability to mandate NN. The FCC has recently said it does not. It didn't rule against NN per se... just that the FCC cannot make that rule under its charter.

they are not our friends

[houghi]

Just because they are the enemies of our enemies does not make them our friends. The fact that they have the same goals this time is nice, but irrelevant in the long term.