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FCC commissioner indicates that Net Neutrality may be enforceable under current regulations

According to a report in Multichannel News, a FCC commissioner; Michael Copps, said at a press conference that the FCC has what it needs under current regulations the authority it needs to enforce Network Neutrality.

Commissioner Copps said: “I think we have authority to go now to the second phase of network neutrality, to make sure that there’s not discrimination against those that are not affiliated with the network owners,”

Commissioner Copps is referring to Title I of the Communications Act.  The general feeling I get from reading up on this Act is that it could be perceived either way; meaning some people perceive it as protecting Net Neutrality and some don’t.

Commissioner Copps comments are certainly welcome news in the fight to keep the internet a level playing field, but I fear that if he were to try to enforce Net Neutrality via Title I then we would end up in a lengthy battle in the courts with the outcome up in the air.

Nationally there seem to be two prevailing approaches to Net Neutrality:

1.  Push for legislation in Congress to give the federal government control over Net Neutrality

2.  Let the FCC handle Net Neutrality and then when a telco violates Net Neutrality we let the courts sort it out.

I don’t like either of these approaches.

I favor the approach of using the Cable TV franchise application process to express our concerns to the telcos and to let them know as consumers that if they don’t promise to uphold the tenets of Net Neutrality then we will choose not to do business with them.  And when I say “as consumers” I mean as communities, whether at the town level or the state level.

 
Tie Net Neutrality to the IPTV Cable TV process and we can affect Net Neutrality without new legislation or relying on courts legislating from the bench.

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