[net-gold] UNITED STATES: GOVERNMENT : INTERNET: ACCESS: NET NEUTRALITY: Facebook Among More Than 100 Internet Companies Urging FCC To Maintain Network Neutrality
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- Date: Thu, 8 May 2014 19:18:19 -0400 (EDT)
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UNITED STATES: GOVERNMENT :
INTERNET: ACCESS: NET NEUTRALITY:
Facebook Among More Than 100 Internet Companies
Urging FCC To Maintain Network Neutrality
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Facebook Among More Than 100 Internet Companies
Urging FCC To Maintain Network Neutrality
David Cohen
May 8, 2014 5:36 PM
All Facebook Blog
http://allfacebook.com/fcc-network-neutrality-letter_b131561
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Facebook was among the more than 100 Internet companies that sent a letter
to the Federal Communications Commission, urging it to reconsider the
two-tiered Internet rules it is set to officially propose May 15.
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According to press reports and FCC briefings, the commission intends to
authorize Internet-service providers to create a two-tiered Internet, slow
and faster, and to charge Web companies for access to the faster tier.
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The net neutrality backlash is heating up here's what you need to know
Thursday, May 8, 2014
Updated by Timothy B. Lee on May 8, 2014, 4:10 p.m. ET
Vox
http://www.vox.com/2014/5/8/5694762/
fcc-chair-faces-pressure-to-rethink-weak-network-neutrality-rules
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Federal Communications Commission chairman Tom Wheeler is facing a growing
backlash from network neutrality supporters, once his allies, who've
blasted his proposed regulations as inadequate to protect internet
freedom.
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Chairman Wheeler is scheduled to officially release his proposed rules at
an FCC meeting on May 15. That makes the week between now and then a
critical period in the network neutrality debate, as activists try to
force Wheeler to rethink his proposal.
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Why are network neutrality supporters upset?
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President Obama pledged to appoint FCC commissioners who support network
neutrality, and Wheeler is an avowed network neutrality advocate. But many
network neutrality advocates felt betrayed when they learned last month
that Wheeler's new proposal would permit ISPs to carve up their networks
into "fast lanes" and "slow lanes."
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Wheeler's proposal would require that any such plan be "commercially
reasonable," and the chairman has vowed to "establish a high bar for what
is 'commercially reasonable.'" A January decision of the DC Circuit Court
suggested that the courts were open to a network neutrality rule based on
the commercial reasonableness standard. But the standard comes with an
unwieldy 16-factor test that critics say won't actually do much to
constrain the behavior of large ISPs and protect consumers.
Who is pressuring Wheeler for tougher rules?
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Wheeler is facing criticism on multiple fronts. Liberals in Congress and
in the advocacy sector are critical of his plan. "This is the free speech
issue of our time," said Sen. Al Franken (D-MN) in a YouTube video
produced by the Progressive Change Campaign Committee. "We cannot allow
the FCC to implement a pay-to-play system that silences our voices and
amplifies that of big corporate interests." The PCCC was one of than 90
organizations that signed a letter on Thursday urging Wheeler to
reconsider.
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Many technology companies are dissatisfied with Wheeler's proposal. More
than 100 of them sent a letter to Wheeler on Wednesday calling his plan a
"grave threat to to the Internet" and asking him to reconsider. A number
of prominent venture capitalists have also called for stronger
protections.
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David Pashman, the general counsel of Meetup, went to Washington on Friday
to lobby members of Congress and FCC staffers in favor of network
neutrality. "Pageload times and user experience is critically important to
us," he says. "If the ability of our users to access our site is
compromised, that puts us at a competitive disadvantage compared to a
company with quicker pageloads."
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Most importantly, Wheeler is facing pushback from his fellow
commissioners. Wheeler needs three votes (including his own) on the
five-member commission to start the process of adopting his rules. But one
of his fellow Democrats, Jessica Rosenworcel, has called for a delay a
vote on Wheeler's proposal in order to give the commission more time to
seek public input. Given that Wheeler's proposal is not very popular with
Republican commissioners either Republican Ajit Pai is also calling for a
delay he is going to face an uphill battle to get it approved at the
FCC's may meeting.
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What would network neutrality supporters like the FCC to do instead?
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Many network neutrality advocates, including the non-profit browser maker
Mozilla, would like the FCC to declare broadband a telecommunications
service, a legal category that would give the agency broader regulatory
powers under the 1996 Telecommunications Act.
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