Net Neutrality received a body slam from a federal appeals court Tuesday, but the door was left open for resuscitating the policy. In a case brought by Verizon against the Federal Communications Commission, the judges on the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia found the agency lacked the authority to impose antidiscrimination and antiblocking rules on providers of Internet broadband services.
Those rules were adopted by the FCC to foster Net neutrality, which is arguably essential for a free and open Internet.
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Net Neutrality Takes a Licking
Posted by: John P. Mello Jr. January 15, 2014 08:44 AMNet Neutrality received a body slam from a federal appeals court Tuesday, but the door was left open for resuscitating the policy. In a case brought by Verizon against the Federal Communications Commission, the judges on the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia found the agency lacked the authority to impose antidiscrimination and antiblocking rules on providers of Internet broadband services.
Those rules were adopted by the FCC to foster Net neutrality, which is arguably essential for a free and open Internet.