The new FCC proposal is also similar to the Mozilla Foundation's proposal from a year ago: In the key to our argument, we then ask the FCC to designate remote delivery services as telecommunications services under Title II of the Communications Act.
The EFF is in favor: If the FCC is going to craft and enforce clear and limited neutrality rules, it must first do one important thing. The FCC must reverse its 2002 decision to treat broadband as an “information service” rather than a “telecommunications service.” This is what’s known as Title II reclassification. According to the highest court to review the question, the rules that actually do what many of us want — such as forbidding discrimination against certain applications — require the FCC to treat access providers like “common carriers,” treatment that can only be applied to telecommunications services.
Google’s Austin Schlick (Director, Communications Law) says that Title II reclassification will help Google Fiber compete on a level playing field with cable and phone companies:
This is a huge step forward for net neutrality, and it's based directly on work by people in “our” communities (Y Combinator, web businesses, tech non-profits...) who care a lot about protecting and growing the internet.
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2014/05/mozilla-offers-fc...
The EFF is in favor: If the FCC is going to craft and enforce clear and limited neutrality rules, it must first do one important thing. The FCC must reverse its 2002 decision to treat broadband as an “information service” rather than a “telecommunications service.” This is what’s known as Title II reclassification. According to the highest court to review the question, the rules that actually do what many of us want — such as forbidding discrimination against certain applications — require the FCC to treat access providers like “common carriers,” treatment that can only be applied to telecommunications services.
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/11/white-house-gets-it-ne...
Google’s Austin Schlick (Director, Communications Law) says that Title II reclassification will help Google Fiber compete on a level playing field with cable and phone companies:
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2014/12/google-to-fcc-if-...
This is a huge step forward for net neutrality, and it's based directly on work by people in “our” communities (Y Combinator, web businesses, tech non-profits...) who care a lot about protecting and growing the internet.