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[ NNSquad ] "Net Neutrality" Ruling Opens Door for 2-Tiered Internet Market
"Net Neutrality" Ruling Opens Door for 2-Tiered Internet Market http://j.mp/1e7dJc8 (Scientific American) The D.C. Circuit court ruled in favor of Verizon because of how the FCC had originally classified broadband providers of high-speed Internet as being exempt from "common carrier" regulations. But the FCC can reassert its authority over high-speed Internet services and try again by simply reclassifying the broadband providers, saysSusan Crawford, a professor at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law in New York City and an advocate of net neutrality. "The FCC will need to respond, and my hope is that they will respond by reclassifying this service as a telecommunications service, and then 'forbearing' from whatever legacy regulatory steps they want to," Crawford says. - - - --Lauren-- Lauren Weinstein (lauren@vortex.com): http://www.vortex.com/lauren Co-Founder: People For Internet Responsibility: http://www.pfir.org/pfir-info Founder: - Network Neutrality Squad: http://www.nnsquad.org - PRIVACY Forum: http://www.vortex.com/privacy-info Member: ACM Committee on Computers and Public Policy Lauren's Blog: http://lauren.vortex.com Google+: http://google.com/+LaurenWeinstein Twitter: http://twitter.com/laurenweinstein Tel: +1 (818) 225-2800 / Skype: vortex.com _______________________________________________ nnsquad mailing list http://lists.nnsquad.org/mailman/listinfo/nnsquad