The Hill
Internet rules stir passionate debate
By Kate Tummarello - 07/20/14 06:00 AM EDT
While reclassifying Internet providers to treat them like phone companies would be an uphill political battle, companies, lawmakers and members of the public are pressing the agency to do it anyway.
The FCC has received more than 1 million comments about its proposed rewrite of net neutrality rules. Amid profanity-filled diatribes and threats against FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler, many of the comments ask the agency to change the way it regulates Internet providers.
Under the agency’s old net neutrality rules, Internet providers were regulated as “Title I” or “information” services.
Phone companies, in contrast, are classified as “Title II” or “telecommunications” services, meaning they are regulated more like utility companies.
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In filings to the FCC, the major Internet providers — including Comcast, Verizon and ATandT — warned that reclassification would hurt the Internet.
“Reclassification would mire the industry in years of uncertainty and litigation, and it would abruptly stall the virtuous circle of investment and innovation that has propelled the United States to the forefront of the broadband revolution,” ATandT told the FCC.
Comcast warned the agency that reclassifying Internet providers “is not only entirely unnecessary but would be unwise and likely unlawful.”
Jon Banks, senior vice president for law and policy at USTelecom, said the FCC should focus on the growth of Internet access under its current classification.
“Under Title I, we’ve had massive investment and innovation from broadband providers” and websites, he said.
“Why would you want to change that?”
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SOURCE: The Hill - here.
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COMMENT
One million isn't a large number in the US when you consider the size of their population.
So what kind of weirdos write in asking for internet provider reclassification?
Come on, what are the odds of that?
Well, folks, here's another way to fuck up the internet; and if they're doing it in the US, you can bet they'll be doing it near you eventually.
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