FCC Caves on Net Neutrality

Huge Win for the Open Internet! FCC Officially Embraces Title II.

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FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler: This Is How We Will Ensure Net Neutrality.

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Don’t call them “utility” rules: The FCC’s net neutrality regime, explained.

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Verizon is mad that its huge net neutrality gamble backfired.

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Why the ex-cable lobbyist running the FCC turned against his old clients.

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UPDATE on likely voting. My original post here stated that :" Commissioner Ajit Pai, who came up through the ranks of the staff of the FCC. His vote is not predictable."

Well, no need to attempt to predict Commissioner Pai's vote, he will be voting against Chairman Wheeler's Proposal to reclassify the internet as a "telecommunications service" and reclassify it as a "common-carrier' uinder Title II of The Communications Act:

"Republican FCC Commissioner Ajit Pai on Friday raised the first of many criticisms to come about FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler’s aggressive net neutrality plan distributed to commissioners Thursday, which Pai described as “President Obama’s 332-page plan to regulate the Internet.”

http://dailycaller.com/2015/02/06/r...bamas-332-page-plan-to-regulate-the-internet/

IMHO that still means the Proposal will be approved by the full Commission, with a vote of 3-2 in favor of the Proposal, with both Commisioners O’Rielly and Commissioner Pai, issuing separate vigorous, dissenting opinions, which would not be helpful in The Proposal's being upheld in the court system. The FCC's action on Chairman Wheeler's Proposal will surely reach the level of The U.S. Supreme Court.

 

Republicans launch attack on FCC’s net neutrality plan.

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Ajit Pai: Net neutrality will help foreign leaders control the Internet.

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Net Neutrality's Technical Troubles.

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Is Google about to stab net neutrality right in the back?.

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Big Telecom tried to kill net neutrality before it was even a concept.

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Net neutrality advocates identify holes in FCC’s net neutrality plan.

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Internet Taxes, Another Window Into the Net Neutrality Debate.

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What the Broadband Industry Really Needs Isn't Net Neutrality. It Needs Competition.

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Five Loopholes That Could Undermine Net Neutrality.

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"Democratic FCC commissioner balks at net neutrality rules

A Democrat on the Federal Communications Commission wants to narrow the scope of new net neutrality rules that are set for a vote on Thursday, The Hill has learned.

Mignon Clyburn, one of three Democrats on the FCC, has asked Chairman Tom Wheeler to roll back some of the restrictions before the full commission votes on them, FCC officials said.........

Clyburn’s changes would leave in place the central and most controversial component of Wheeler’s rules — the notion that broadband Internet service should be reclassified so that it can be treated as a “telecommunications” service under Title II of the Communications Act, similar to utilities like phone lines."

http://thehill.com/business-a-lobby...s-last-minute-changes-to-net-neutrality-rules

 

Net neutrality order could get last-minute change on peering disputes.

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F.C.C. Net Neutrality Rules Clear Hurdle as Republicans Concede to Obama.

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Some Republicans

FCC Chair Refuses to Testify before Congress ahead of Net Neutrality Vote

http://www.nationalreview.com/corne...ress-ahead-net-neutrality-vote-andrew-johnson


The blogosphere fear-mongering on Net Neutralty is unbelievable:

"LEFT GROUPS NOW FEAR: GOV'T NET GRAB GOING TOO FAR!"

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/02/dear-fcc-rethink-those-vague-general-conduct-rules

"Plan Could Lead to UN Takeover of Internet..."

http://www.nationaljournal.com/tech...lan-could-lead-to-un-internet-powers-20150225

"SOROS CASH BEHIND PUSH..."

http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/s...y-groups-staff-to-white-house/article/2560702

"Commisioner: 'Independence of agency has been compromised'...
Lawless?"

http://reason.com/archives/2015/02/25/fccs-ajit-pai-on-net-neutrality-a-soluti/

 

For five years, one FCC commissioner held firm in net neutrality fight.

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Why Everyone Was Wrong About Net Neutrality.

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How Google’s Silence Helped Net Neutrality Win.

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"The FCC Did a Lot More Than Just Approve Net Neutrality...

The Federal Communications Commission will allow some cities and towns to set up and expand municipal Internet services, overruling state laws that had been put in place to block such efforts.

The commission granted petitions by Chattanooga, Tenn., and Wilson, N.C., to overturn laws that restricted the ability of communities in those states to offer broadband service. In all about 20 states have passed such laws."

http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2015/02/fcc-did-lot-more-just-approve-net-neutrality-today

OoPs: Already posted here
https://www.wilderssecurity.com/thre...-out-municipal-broadband.373766/#post-2463967

 

The FCC Did NOT Make the Internet a Public Utility.

-- Tom