I can understand the complaint about net neutrality for business, having one company eat more bandwidth then next even if a smaller company is complete garbage, especially when the provider in the area sucks! – PB/TK
What Is Net Neutrality? Democratic Senators, Advocates Lay Out Plan To Protect Policy – BY ON
As Federal Communications Commission Chairman Ajit Pai prepares to begin the repeal of net neutrality rules, a resistance to his efforts has already started. Senators Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.), Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) and Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) led a call Wednesday to begin laying the groundwork for a legislative effort to protect net neutrality.
The senators, along with leaders from open internet advocacy groups Free Press and Fight for the Future, made clear their intention to protect not just the principles of net neutrality, which requires all data to be treated as equal, but also the legal means of enforcing those principles.
“We’re not just going to sit ideally by and deliver the internet to the big cable companies,” Sen. Wyden said.
At stake are the President Barack Obama-era protections passed by the FCC that reclassified the internet as a common carrier under Title II of the Telecommunications Act. That classification, established by the Open Internet Order, gave the FCC the regulatory power to protect net neutrality principles, which prohibit internet service providers from blocking, throttling or prioritizing any data.
Evan Greer, the campaign director of Fight for the Future, described net neutrality as the “first amendment of the internet.”
Ajit Pai, the FCC chairman appointed by President Donald Trump, has stated his intention to undo those protections. While Pai is expected to present his replacement plan in full Wednesday, early indications suggest he will propose doing away with the common carrier classification and will ask internet service providers to voluntarily agree to net neutrality principles instead of having legal recourse for enforcing the rules.
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