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The open internet order and the title 2 reclassification are two different things. After they were sued and lost the ability to enforce the order, they moved fo
by Karunamon 7y ago
The open internet order and the title 2 reclassification are two different things. After they were sued and lost the ability to enforce the order, they moved forward with reclassification.
- tzs 7y agoI believe you may be thinking of the 2010 Open Internet Order. That was the net neutrality order that was struck down in court. The court said that Section 706 did not provide sufficient authority for the regulation, but Title II would if ISPs were reclassified. The Wheeler FCC set about to restoring net neutrality consistent with the court's ruling. Wheeler proposed doing so without reclassification by basically keeping those things that the court had not had a problem with and dropping those things that needed Title II. The main such thing dropped was the ban against paid prioritization. In that proposal, he also asked for comments on reclassification. The comments overwhelmingly supported reclassification and he went with that, issuing the 2015 Open Internet order, which reclassified ISPs under Title II with most Title II provisions forborne and imposed net neutrality.