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> But Chairman Ajit Pai is making no promises about reinstating the two-year-old net neutrality rules that forbid ISPs from blocking or throttling lawful Intern
by zerocrates 9y ago
> But Chairman Ajit Pai is making no promises about reinstating the two-year-old net neutrality rules that forbid ISPs from blocking or throttling lawful Internet content, or prioritizing content in exchange for payment.
Well, that's good, because it would make no sense if he was promising that. The current net neutrality rules from 2015 only work in the context of Title II classification; that's why they went together. The FCC already tried to do net neutrality under some more tenuous authority it had back in 2010, and it lost at the D.C. Circuit. This is why we got reclassification in the first place.
- zerocrates 9y agoThe article does actually say basically this much further down, when discussing Clyburn's dissent: > Despite seeking public comment on whether to impose new net neutrality rules without the use of Title II, the Republican majority did not propose the use of any specific legal authority that could enforce such rules