{"id":3431,"date":"2013-09-10T12:34:41","date_gmt":"2013-09-10T16:34:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.nccomputertech.com\/?p=3431"},"modified":"2013-09-10T12:34:41","modified_gmt":"2013-09-10T16:34:41","slug":"verizons-bid-to-kill-network-neutrality-law-goes-to-court-monday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nccomputertech.com\/techtalk\/2013\/09\/10\/verizons-bid-to-kill-network-neutrality-law-goes-to-court-monday\/","title":{"rendered":"Verizon\u2019s bid to kill network neutrality law goes to court Monday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/tech-policy\/2013\/09\/verizons-bid-to-kill-network-neutrality-law-goes-to-court-monday\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nccomputertech.com\/techtalk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/7362006206_ea7fa6b6f8_z.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In December 2010, the Federal Communications Commission adopted the Open Internet Order, enshrining the concept of &#8220;network neutrality&#8221;\u2014that Internet Service Providers must treat all data on the Internet equally\u2014into law.<br \/>\nAlthough wireless broadband was exempt from many of its restrictions, the FCC&#8217;s net neutrality law says that fixed broadband providers &#8220;may not block lawful content, applications, services, or non-harmful devices&#8221; or practice &#8220;unreasonable discrimination&#8221; that slows content down or degrades its quality. They also must disclose information about their network management practices.<br \/>\nISPs don&#8217;t like this, naturally, but Verizon has objected most strenuously of all. The company sued to halt the Open Internet Order, and after a couple of years worth of legal filings the case is now set to be decided by the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.<br \/>\nVerizon and the FCC on Monday will each get 20 minutes to make their oral arguments. There won&#8217;t be a trial, as the oral arguments are typically the last step before the court makes its decision, said Senior Staff Attorney John Bergmayer of Public Knowledge, an advocacy group that filed briefs in the case supporting the FCC&#8217;s position.<br \/>\n&#8220;It&#8217;s really just a chance for the judges to ask questions they feel are not answered in the briefs, to poke at weak points in arguments, etc.,&#8221; Bergmayer told Ars.<br \/>\nThe court will issue a decision when it&#8217;s good and ready. We don&#8217;t know when that will happen.<br \/>\nVerizon: Our \u201cFirst Amendment\u201d rights are under attack<br \/>\nAs a refresher course on this complicated topic, Public Knowledge published a series of blog posts on what net neutrality is, what the FCC&#8217;s Open Internet Order does, and what the appeals court will decide.<br \/>\nVerizon is arguing that the FCC over-stepped its authority in issuing the regulations in the Open Internet Order, that it has a free speech right to block or degrade content under the First Amendment, and that the FCC didn&#8217;t do a good enough job explaining its reasoning and the evidence that the rules are necessary.<br \/>\nVerizon outlined its argument in a 118-page brief (PDF) filed jointly with MetroPCS in January. MetroPCS dropped out of the case after being acquired by T-Mobile, leaving Verizon to fight alone.<br \/>\nThe Open Internet Order exceeds the commission&#8217;s authority as granted in the Communications Act which &#8220;expressly forbids the FCC from applying common-carrier regulation to broadband Internet access,&#8221; Verizon wrote. The FCC&#8217;s net neutrality rules &#8220;subject broadband providers to quintessential common-carrier duties by compelling them to carry the Internet traffic of all comers, and to do so at a uniform, nondiscriminatory price of zero.&#8221; The Communications Act includes no other provisions giving the FCC the authority to make the net neutrality rules, Verizon argued.<br \/>\nThe FCC rules are also unconstitutional, violating the First and Fifth amendments, Verizon said. &#8220;Broadband networks are the modern day microphone by which their owners engage in First Amendment speech,&#8221; Verizon wrote. &#8220;The FCC thus must identify an actual problem and narrowly tailor its solution to solve that problem. The FCC\u2019s &#8216;prophylactic&#8217; rules cannot pass that test. The Fifth Amendment likewise protects broadband network owners from government compulsion to turn over their private property for use by others without compensation, especially in light of their multi-billion-dollar investment-backed expectations.&#8221;<br \/>\nFinally, Verizon argued that the FCC order is &#8220;devoid of evidence of any problem sufficient to justify these extensive regulations. The FCC also arbitrarily applied its rules to a single class of service providers even though myriad others in the Internet economy can engage in &#8216;gatekeeping.'&#8221;<br \/>\nFull Story: <a href=\"http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/tech-policy\/2013\/09\/verizons-bid-to-kill-network-neutrality-law-goes-to-court-monday\/\" target=\"_blank\">Verizon\u2019s bid to kill network neutrality law goes to court Monday | Ars Technica<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In December 2010, the Federal Communications Commission adopted the Open Internet Order, enshrining the concept of &#8220;network neutrality&#8221;\u2014that Internet Service [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10],"tags":[738,1152],"class_list":["post-3431","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-net-neutrality","tag-verizon"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/papNkV-Tl","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":9368,"url":"https:\/\/nccomputertech.com\/techtalk\/2018\/06\/18\/this-week-in-tech-671-a-bad-day-for-the-internet\/","url_meta":{"origin":3431,"position":0},"title":"This Week in Tech 671: A Bad Day for the Internet","author":"NCCT","date":"June 18, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"https:\/\/youtu.be\/wJdSNos8swI Social media is still destroying the world. 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