Before Net Neutrality Eats the World (Part 2): An Alternative Case for Agency Neutrality

by Wayne Crews on August 20, 2013 in Economy, Features, Legal, Regulation, Tech & Telecom

(Note: On Sept. 9, 2013, the United States Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit will hear oral arguments in Verizon’s challenge of the Federal Communications Commission’s December 2010 Order on “Preserving the Free and Open Internet.” This series explores fundamental issues at stake.)

Instead of compulsory net neutrality, let’s mandate agency neutrality.

Something remarkable has happened without the Federal Communications Commission’s “Preserving the Free and Open Internet” net neutrality order of December 2010.

At the time of FCC’s 2009 notice of proposed rulemaking (CEI filing here), the agency already had been forced to admit that “broadband Internet access service adoption has increased dramatically, with broadband in approximately 30 percent of American households in 2005 and sixty-three percent today” (p. 20, paragraph 48)……This appeared here…..