May 25, 2006 | Comments: (0)
FCC Can Impose Net Neutrality Today
According to a story in Multichannel News by Ted Hearn, FCC commissioner Michael Copps has announced that he feels all this legal wrangling on the Hill is unnecessary. Copps says that the FCC has all the authority it needs under current law to impose a Net Neutrality policy that would ensure that cell carriers and Web broadband providers can't discriminate against Web content providers, Web application hosters and search engine services.
Unfortunately, while Copps is the FCC commissioner, the FCC's chairman, Kevin Martin, doesn't favor a regulatory approach to Net Neutrality. That genius wants to deregulate everything and see what happens even though it's become patently obvious what will happen -- tiered pricing and content restrictions aimed specifically at discriminating at a wide variety of Web businesses and even Web users.
I hope Copps gets his way and gets it soon, but the House Judiciary Committee is getting ready to vote tomorrow on the Sensenbrenner bill that would punish Net Neutrality violations. Not sure how that's going to work since no rules for Net Neutrality compliance have yet to be ratified, but I suppose it's a step in the right direction.
Maybe.
Posted by Oliver Rist on May 25, 2006 12:27 PM
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