FCC plans total repeal of net neutrality rules

["Dave Farber" <farber () gmail com>]

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> From: Richard Forno <rforno () infowarrior org>
> Date: November 20, 2017 at 8:52:57 PM EST
> To: Infowarrior List <infowarrior () attrition org>
> Cc: Dave Farber <dave () farber net>
> Subject: FCC plans total repeal of net neutrality rules
>
>
> FCC plans total repeal of net neutrality rules
>
> By MARGARET HARDING MCGILL
>
> 11/20/2017 07:17 PM EST
> Updated 11/20/2017 07:58 PM EST
>
> Federal Communications Commission Chairman Ajit Pai will reveal plans to his fellow commissioners on Tuesday to fully 
> dismantle the agency's Obama-era net neutrality regulations, people familiar with the plans said, in a major victory 
> for the telecom industry in the long-running policy debate.
>
> The commission will vote on the proposal in December, some seven months after it laid the groundwork for scuttling 
> the rules that require internet service providers like Comcast or AT&T to treat web traffic equally.
>
> President Donald Trump-appointed Pai’s plan would jettison rules that prohibit internet service providers from 
> blocking or slowing web traffic or creating so-called paid internet fast lanes, the people familiar with the changes 
> said.
>
> Pai also will follow through on his plans to scrap the legal foundation that the FCC’s old Democratic majority 
> adopted in 2015 to tighten federal oversight of internet service providers, a move he contends has deterred the 
> industry from investing in broadband networks. Internet providers have feared that legal foundation, if left in 
> place, could set the stage for possible government price regulation of internet service.
>
> The chairman’s approach, to be voted on at the FCC’s Dec. 14 meeting, would also get rid of the so-called general 
> conduct standard, which gives the FCC authority to police internet service providers behavior it deems unreasonable.
>
> The plan includes transparency rules that would require internet service providers to inform their customers about 
> their practices on issues such as blocking and throttling. Major internet providers, including Comcast, have publicly 
> said they will not block or throttle web traffic.
>
> The FCC will look to another agency, the Federal Trade Commission, to police whether internet service providers are 
> acting in an anticompetitive manner.
>
> An FCC spokesman declined comment on the plan.
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> https://www.politico.com/story/2017/11/20/net-neutrality-repeal-fcc-251824



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