Kate Cox — Appeals Court Strikes Down Net Neutrality Rules

A federal appeals court in Washington, D.C., today released a ruling that strikes down key provisions of the FCC’s net neutrality rule.
Verizon filed the lawsuit challenging net neutrality in January, 2011.

The net neutrality rule, formally known as the FCC’s Open Internet Order (PDF), prohibits broadband providers from blocking any legal content or “unreasonably discriminating” in transmitting “lawful network traffic.” Translated from the legalese, that means your ISP can’t give any one internet traffic source (like RedBox) preference over another (like Netflix).

The gist of today’s ruling (PDF) is that the FCC could make such a regulation if it classified internet service providers as common carriers, like telephone providers. But since they don’t, the FCC is overstepping its bounds....

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Appeals Court Strikes Down Net Neutrality Rules
Kate Cox