Broadband providers sue FCC to stop net neutrality regulations
Source: Los Angeles Times
Broadband providers sued the Federal Communications Commission to try to stop tough new net neutrality regulations, the first step in an expected lengthy court fight over the online traffic rules.
US Telecom, a trade group whose membership includes AT&T Inc. and Verizon Communications Inc., filed a petition Monday in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.
The group wants the court to review the FCC's rules because they are "arbitrary, capricious, and an abuse of discretion" as well as a violation of existing law, according to the petition.
The regulations, passed by a 3-2 vote last month, are designed to ensure the uninhibited flow of Internet content. They prohibit broadband providers from blocking, slowing or selling faster delivery of legal content flowing through their networks to consumers.
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Read more: http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-net-neutrality-suit-fcc-20150323-story.html
By JIM PUZZANGHERA
MARCH 23, 2015 5:27 PM REPORTING FROM WASHINGTON
Pharaoh
(8,209 posts)MADem
(135,425 posts)What, do they think people are stupid?
Fuck 'em, indeed!
IthinkThereforeIAM
(3,077 posts)... too. Seems kind of off base.
booley
(3,855 posts)already had some of my conservative friends "warn" me of how net neutrality means the government will take over the internet and destroy innovation and freedom and apple pie or whatever. And these are educated people, some of whom are even small business owners who really should know better.
And have you seen some of the anti neutrality ads that have been going around?
As far as I can tell it's all based on the supposition that ANYTHING the government does is automatically bad.
Xipe Totec
(43,890 posts)msongs
(67,445 posts)GoneFishin
(5,217 posts)the same unfair practices which the telecomms intended to implement as soon as they saw the opportunity.
Ed Suspicious
(8,879 posts)BrotherIvan
(9,126 posts)blackspade
(10,056 posts)Assholes.
BlueJazz
(25,348 posts)...this bullshit of "300 hundred channels!!" (270 of them are crap, useless trash that very few people watch)
"Light bulb painting with Gertrude"
PSPS
(13,616 posts)These used to be routinely thrown out. When a regulatory agency is involved, any of its regulation can be called "arbitrary and capricious" if it doesn't suit the entity being regulated.
asiliveandbreathe
(8,203 posts)attention than it is getting..me - as a 30 year retiree of AT&T - I wouldn't do business with them - SBC bought the name - and brought their own values to the company - this is not your AT&T of old..we actually cared about the consumer..and employees were valued..
Any chance I get to talk to a T Mobil employee I mention how lucky they are the AT&T -T-Mobil merger didn't happen....
There are choices folk's - this is where you can hit them in the pocketbook....
fasttense
(17,301 posts)The majority of citizens in the US are in favor of tough net neutrality rules. The FCC acted on those concerns and a bunch of rich old men hiding behind their wealth and corporations are going to whatever it takes to stop the will of the people. What right do they have to hold up what the majority wants? This is NOT democracy. This is the inevitable oligarchy created by capitalism.