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Looking at Comcast's webpage on this: http://corporate.comcast.com/comcast-voices/comcast-supports-net-neutrality-and-reversal-of-title-ii-classification-title
by SkyMarshal 10y ago
Looking at Comcast's webpage on this:
http://corporate.comcast.com/comcast-voices/comcast-supports-net-neutrality-and-reversal-of-title-ii-classification-title-ii-is-not-net-neutrality http://corporate.comcast.com/comcast-voices/comcast-supports...
They're arguing that Title II Classification is not the same as Net Neutrality, with the following statement:
"Title II is a source of authority to impose enforceable net neutrality rules. Title II is not net neutrality. Getting rid of Title II does not mean that we are repealing net neutrality protections for American consumers.
We want to be very clear: As Brian Roberts, our Chairman and CEO stated, and as Dave Watson, President and CEO of Comcast Cable writes in his blog post today, we have and will continue to support strong, legally enforceable net neutrality protections that ensure a free and Open Internet* for our customers, with consumers able to access any and all the lawful content they want at any time. Our business practices ensure these protections for our customers and will continue to do so."*
So if Title II goes away, where do those strong, legally enforceable net neutrality protections come from? Wasn't that the reasoning behind Title II in the first place, it's the only effectively strong, legally enforceable way of protecting net neutrality (vs other methods with loopholes)?
- lightbyte 10y ago>Wasn't that the reasoning behind Title II in the first place Yes, Verizon v FCC [1] ruled that Title II classification is required for any sort of NN regulation. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verizon_Communications_Inc._v._FCC_(2014) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verizon_Communications_Inc._v....
- twoodfin 10y agoOther than passing a new law, which is at least my preferred means to substantially change policy governing a huge industry.