Brendan Carr, whom Trump has named as the incoming FCC chair, has been a strong critic of net neutrality. The court’s reliance on the Loper case in its ruling could also portend more lawsuits to hollow out federal regulations at the FCC and other agencies. The court’s opinion “puts...
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issued a lengthy statementcalling the ruling “a good win for the country.” He calls net neutrality rules an attempt by the Biden administration to “expand the government’s control over every feature of the Internet ecosystem” and says the push for the rules was a waste of ...
Net neutrality, the idea that all online data should be treated equally, survived a significant legal battle today, The New York Times reports. Last year, the FCC approved new net neutrality rules that would regulate internet service as a public utility, like landline phones, and prevent ...
The ruling overturns last year’s FCC vote, which reinstated the net neutrality rules barring broadband providers from blocking or throttling internet traffic to some websites and speeding up access to others that pay extra fees. The three-judge panel pointed to a Supreme Court decision last June...
WASHINGTON — In a big win for the Obama administration, a federal appeals court on Tuesday upheld the government's "net neutrality" rules that require internet providers to treat all web traffic equally. The 2-1 ruling from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit is...
The Department of Justice and the Federal Communications Commission today requested that the Supreme Court vacate an appeals court decision upholding net neutrality in 2016. If the court decides to grant the motion, the previous decision to support the r
But during more than three hours of oral arguments Friday, Tatel suggested he might accept the FCC's new approach. He pointed to a Supreme Court ruling from 2005 that seems to give the FCC a choice to regulate broadband companies as common carriers or as information service providers. ...
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Californian laws requiring "net neutrality" have been found lawful by an appeals court. As so often on the topic, the legal argument is as much about who has the power to make laws as it is the legal measures themselves. While precise definitions vary be