FCC releases final net neutrality repeal order, three weeks after vote

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Date: Fri, Jan 5, 2018 at 12:11 PM
Subject: [Dewayne-Net] FCC releases final net neutrality repeal order,
three weeks after vote
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FCC releases final net neutrality repeal order, three weeks after vote
With repeal officially published, FCC will soon face lawsuits.
By JON BRODKIN
Jan 4 2018
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The Federal Communications Commission today released the final version of
its net neutrality repeal order, three weeks after the December 14 vote to
deregulate the broadband industry and eliminate the rules.

You can read the entire order here, though it is similar to the draft that
has been available since November.

Small edits aren't uncommon after FCC votes, and they don't require a
second vote. The edits generally respond to concerns raised by
commissioners, as we wrote earlier this week.

"In this document, the American public can see for themselves the damage
done by this agency to Internet openness," FCC Commissioner Jessica
Rosenworcel, a Democrat who voted against the repeal, said today. "Going
forward, our broadband providers will have the power to block websites,
throttle services, and censor online content. This is not right."

The decision "deserves to be revisited, reexamined, and ultimately
reversed," she said.

Mignon Clyburn, the commission's other Democrat, weighed in on Twitter:

Republican FCC Commissioner Brendan Carr called the release of the document
"great news." He said that, because the FCC is relinquishing its authority
over broadband to the Federal Trade Commission, "Consumers win back the
strong online privacy protections they lost in 2015."

Of course, that's only true because Congress eliminated the even stronger
consumer privacy protections that the FCC would have enforced under its
Title II regulatory framework, a decision supported by the FCC's Republican
majority. There is also an ongoing court case in which AT&T is trying to
weaken the FTC's ability to regulate broadband providers, which could leave
consumers with even fewer protections.

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