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[ NNSquad ] EFF: The FCC and Net Neutrality: A Way Forward
The FCC and Net Neutrality: A Way Forward (EFF): https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/06/fcc-and-net-neutrality-way-forward So that leads us back to the FCC. While Congress does its work, antitrust lawyers weigh options, and Internet users work to promote competition, empower community solutions, and ensure transparency, the FCC can be acting to enforce a few rules of the road that target the non-neutral behavior we're already beginning to see from Internet service providers. We want to be very, very clear: the FCC's regulatory role should be narrow and firmly bounded. Network neutrality rules should be limited to specific prohibitions-such as blocking, discrimination among applications and prohibiting special access fees-potentially combined with a renewed "open access" requirement that would foster local competition, and no more. Luckily, the FCC has a way to bind itself and thereby limit its own regulatory reach. It's called "forbearance." - - - --Lauren-- Lauren Weinstein (lauren@vortex.com): http://www.vortex.com/lauren Founder: - Network Neutrality Squad: http://www.nnsquad.org - PRIVACY Forum: http://www.vortex.com/privacy-info Co-Founder: People For Internet Responsibility: http://www.pfir.org/pfir-info Member: ACM Committee on Computers and Public Policy I am a consultant to Google -- I speak only for myself, not for them. 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