Only YOU Can Protect Net Neutrality

[Defnestor]

Simple math equation. Add all the 150k+ speaking fees you've paid FCC commissioners and their oversight committee, add all the second cousin-in-laws (of those same people) you've hired for do-nothing jobs, with perks like access to the company oceanfront property in the south of France. Now, subtract all those same lobbying gifts supplied by large corporations. The end result is the % chance that this is designed to help the private citizen.

This formula works for almost all government regulation.

 

[vvvvvvv]

Ajit Pai and Mike O'Rielly think there are no harms in the status quo. Do you agree with them?

My interpretation of their opinions is that worst-case hypotheticals shouldn't be used as a guidepost for government regulations.

By the way, the order was finally released today. They just had to pass it so we could know what is in it.

 

[LightningCrash]

So it's a good thing there were harms in the status quo, we weren't adding rules based on the hypotheticals?

 

[vvvvvvv]

So it's a good thing there were harms in the status quo, we weren't adding rules based on the hypotheticals?

What were the harms, what was the significance of those harms, and were those harms inherent to the status quo?

 

[LightningCrash]

They were linked earlier in the thread, have a read

 

[_CY_]

My interpretation of their opinions is that worst-case hypotheticals shouldn't be used as a guidepost for government regulations.

By the way, the order was finally released today. They just had to pass it so we could know what is in it.

thanks for the link ... just downloaded pdf ... good grief 400 pages!
https://apps.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/FCC-15-24A1.pdf

 

[Coded-Dude]

some of the highlights: http://www.pcworld.com/article/2896252/fcc-releases-400page-net-neutrality-order.html

 

[_CY_]

The FCC’s 305 (Not So Dirty) Words

After all the talk about the Obama Administration’s “secret 300+ page plan to regulate the internet,” the actual text of the FCC order has now been released. The language that matters, the substantive new rules, is only 305 words long. (There are also, importantly, 261 words of definitions, which state that the rules apply to broadband internet access and any “functional equivalent” or service “used to evade the protections.”)

Here are the FCC’s new Network Neutrality rules:

§ 8.5 No blocking. A person engaged in the provision of broadband Internet access service, insofar as such person is so engaged, shall not block lawful content, applications, services, or non-harmful devices, subject to reasonable network management.

§ 8.7 No throttling. A person engaged in the provision of broadband Internet access service, insofar as such person is so engaged, shall not impair or degrade lawful Internet traffic on the basis of Internet content, application, or service, or use of a non-harmful device, subject to reasonable network management.

§ 8.9 No paid prioritization. (a) A person engaged in the provision of broadband Internet access service, insofar as such person is so engaged, shall not engage in paid prioritization. (b) “Paid prioritization” refers to the management of a broadband provider’s network to directly or indirectly favor some traffic over other traffic, including through use of techniques such as traffic shaping, prioritization, resource reservation, or other forms of preferential traffic management, either (a) in exchange for consideration (monetary or otherwise) from a third party, or (b) to benefit an affiliated entity. (c) The Commission may waive the ban on paid prioritization only if the petitioner demonstrates that the practice would provide some significant public interest benefit and would not harm the open nature of the Internet.

§ 8.11 No unreasonable interference or unreasonable disadvantage standard for Internet conduct. Any person engaged in the provision of broadband Internet access service, insofar as such person is so engaged, shall not unreasonably interfere with or unreasonably disadvantage (i) end users’ ability to select, access, and use broadband Internet access service or the lawful Internet content, applications, services, or devices of their choice, or (ii) edge providers’ ability to make lawful content, applications, services, or devices available to end users. Reasonable network management shall not be considered a violation of this rule.

 

[_CY_]

In addition to the substantive rules and some additional language for things like complain procedures, the FCC rules in the Open Internet Order include 261 words of definitions:

(a) Broadband Internet access service. A mass-market retail service by wire or radio that provides the capability to transmit data to and receive data from all or substantially all Internet endpoints, including any capabilities that are incidental to and enable the operation of the communications service, but excluding dial-up Internet access service. This term also encompasses any service that the Commission finds to be providing a functional equivalent of the service described in the previous sentence, or that is used to evade the protections set forth in this Part

(b) Edge provider. Any individual or entity that provides any content, application, or service over the Internet, and any individual or entity that provides a device used for accessing any content, application, or service over the Internet.

(c) End user. Any individual or entity that uses a broadband Internet access service.

(d) Fixed broadband Internet access service. A broadband Internet access service that serves end users primarily at fixed endpoints using stationary equipment. Fixed broadband Internet access service includes fixed wireless services (including fixed unlicensed wireless services), and fixed satellite services.

(e) Mobile broadband Internet access service. A broadband Internet access service that serves end users primarily using mobile stations.

(f) Reasonable network management. A network management practice is a practice that has a primarily technical network management justification, but does not include other business practices. A network management practice is reasonable if it is primarily used for and tailored to achieving a legitimate network management purpose, taking into account the particular network architecture and technology of the broadband Internet access service.

 

[LightningCrash]

Sure is quiet in here