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Would anything stop the next administration from reinstating net neutrality?
Are going to have to take up this fight every four years?
Edit: You know what, fuck it. I don't think I can say anything here that hasn't been said a thousand times already.
American will no longer be a place of innovation. Another country will have to lead the world now
Right, it'll go back to being what it was before 2015 when net neutrality was instituted. The dread is unrelatable.
I don't know how anyone could honestly say that taking away an important consumer protection is going to help innovation, outside of innovative new billing practices by ISPs.
American will no longer be a place of innovation. Another country will have to lead the world now
Right, it'll go back to being what it was before 2015 when net neutrality was instituted. The dread is unrelatable.
American will no longer be a place of innovation. Another country will have to lead the world now
Right, it'll go back to being what it was before 2015 when net neutrality was instituted. The dread is unrelatable.
"As a preliminary matter, it’s important to recognize that net neutrality principles and protections in different forms have actually been around since 2005 and even earlier. So the flourishing of the internet and everything relying on it during that time occurred under the protections. A few years ago, however, the courts struck down one form of net neutrality protections (those that had relied on Title I of the Communications Act), so then in 2015 the FCC put net neutrality protections back in place under Title II instead (they also expanded the earlier protections, e.g., to include protections against abuses related to interconnection, which had not been the subject of net neutrality protections before 2015). Now, in 2017, the FCC under Chairman Ajit Pai is proposing to repeal net neutrality protections altogether (and the courts’ earlier decisions effectively foreclose a return to net neutrality protections under Title I). So that would be entirely new territory for the internet.
Why do we think that’s bad? Well, as I explained in my own public comment in the current proceeding (https://ecfsapi.fcc.gov/file/10717583023587/FINAL%20RIF%20Co...), we’ve seen how companies behave in the absence of net neutrality protections, specifically in the area of interconnection before it was regulated in 2015, and their unregulated conduct harmed consumers. In essence, they made a deliberate business decision to let the quality of internet access degrade, knowing that it hurt consumers, to try to squeeze revenue out of edge providers like Netflix and backbone providers like Cogent and Level 3. Plus, we know that many consumers have few ISPs to choose from, so competition isn’t as effective a check as in other markets. So I believe strong net neutrality regulations are needed to avoid harms to consumers."
Would anything stop the next administration from reinstating net neutrality?
No, nor will the next congress (likely Democratic or leaning that way) be prevented from passing laws that reinstate it at the legislative level.