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Net neutrality law refers to laws and regulations which enforce the principle of net neutrality. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Opponents of net neutrality enforcement claim regulation is unnecessary, because broadband service providers have no plans to block content or degrade network performance. [ 3 ]
A US appeals court on Thursday ruled the Federal Communications Commission did not have the legal authority to reinstate landmark net neutrality rules.. The decision is a blow to the outgoing ...
The ideas underlying net neutrality have a long pedigree in telecommunications practice and regulation. Services such as telegrams and the phone network (officially, the public switched telephone network or PSTN) have been considered common carriers under U.S. law since the Mann–Elkins Act of 1910, which means that they have been akin to public utilities and expressly forbidden to give ...
Lewis said federal law provides the agency authority to implement net neutrality rules. "Congress clearly understood that the commission would have to make these calls," Lewis told the judges.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit said Thursday that the FCC lacked the authority to ... The term was coined in 2003 by Columbia University law professor Tim Wu. Net neutrality rules ...
Network neutrality, often referred to as net neutrality, is the principle that Internet service providers (ISPs) must treat all Internet communications equally, offering users and online content providers consistent transfer rates regardless of content, website, platform, application, type of equipment, source address, destination address, or method of communication (i.e., without price ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Public interest groups on Tuesday asked the full 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to reconsider a ruling that the Federal Communications Commission lacked legal authority to ...
The full concept of "net neutrality" was developed by regulators and legal academics, most prominently law professors Tim Wu, Lawrence Lessig and Federal Communications Commission Chairman Michael Powell often while speaking at the University of Colorado School of Law Annual Digital Broadband Migration conference or writing in the Journal of ...