Enigmatism Posted February 27, 2015 Share Posted February 27, 2015 TIME.comHaley Sweetland Edwards Feb. 26, 2015Net-neutrality advocates quite literally danced in the snowy streets Thursday outside the Federal Communications Commission in Washington just before the agency voted to approve the strongest ever rules on Net neutrality.The vote marks the culmination of a yearlong struggle that pitted grassroots Internet advocates and Silicon Valley tech giants against the titans of the telecom industry.The FCC’s vote is considered a historic victory for so-called open-Internet advocates, and a major blow to big Internet service providers, such as Comcast and Verizon, which will now be subject to stronger regulations.Crucially, the FCC’s new rules were designed to give the agency explicit legal authority to regulate broadband-Internet providers by reclassifying broadband under Title II of the federal Communications Act.Because of a weedy legal issue, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit found in January 2014 that the FCC did not have authority to regulate broadband, and therefore threw out the FCC’s previous rules on Net neutrality, which were passed in 2010. The court recommended that the FCC reclassify broadband under Title II in order to establish its regulatory authority. Mobile-phone companies and public utilities are also classified under Title II.Full Article Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Enigmatism Posted February 27, 2015 Author Share Posted February 27, 2015 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2NDPT0Ph5rA Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Holmes Posted February 27, 2015 Share Posted February 27, 2015 The net neutrality rules that the fcc is trying to implement is bull and the fcc can ........... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Recommended Posts
Archived
This topic is now archived and is closed to further replies.