On Oct 7, 2017, at 7:02 PM, Manfredi, Albert E <albert.e.manfredi@xxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
I wrote a very simple pair of questions:
Tell you what, Craig. I'll ignore everything else you write, if you
cannot answer these two very simple questions. (Responding to the
subject line of this post, or I'll assume you couldn't answer the
trivial questions.)
1. Does this FCC want to classify broadband service as an
information service, or as a telecom service?
2. Given your answer to #1, according to this *direct* quote, how
did the Supreme Court say that broadband service would have to be
regulated?
And Craig replies:
I don't read minds, but I am fairly sure that the Pai FCC intends to
return to the "information service" designation that existed before the
Title II decision.
I assume you know how to use the web, Craig. Any number of articles explain
that Chairman Pai wants to return to the Clinton-era (dialup era)
classification:
http://www.broadcastingcable.com/news/washington/fccs-ajit-pai-launches-effort-repeal-title-ii/165304
"1) 'Proposing to return the classification of broadband service from a Title
II telecommunications service to a Title I information service'-that is,
light-touch regulation drawn from the Clinton Administration"
Pai said that earlier Wednesday he circulated a proposal to reverse "the
mistake" of Title II to the other commissioners and "return to the
light-touch regulatory framework that served our nation so well during the
Clinton Administration, the Bush Administration, and the first six years of
the Obama Administration."
That process will consist of:
1) "Proposing to return the classification of broadband service from a Title
II telecommunications service to a Title I information service"—that is,
light-touch regulation drawn from the Clinton Administration; 2) "proposing
to eliminate the so-called Internet conduct standard," which he called a
"roving mandate to micromanage the Internet"; and 3) seeking comment on what
to do about the "so-called bright-line rules adopted in 2015," which are no
blocking or throttling of content and no paid prioritization.
As my colleague famously said, "there is no excuse for such ignorance, in the
Internet era." You should have had a one-word answer. And no need to guess,
out of sheer laziness to find the facts.
Now to question #2, here is Craig's reply:
From that quote one could wrongly assume they are stating that
Information services ARE subject to title II regulation,
Assume nothing. Read what the quote says, don't assume. And yet, time and
time and time again, at least four times in a row, you were totally clueless.
As in these two examples:
Hopeless. If you don't get these simplest points, how do you expect anyone to
think you understand the finer aspects of net neutrality, e.g. how ISP
service was well protected by Title II, in the dialup era?
I've been convinced for the longest time that you not only don't understand
net neutrality, but you don't even want neutrality. The gatekeeper role, by a
handful of local monopolies, has always been fine with you. But guess what?
You're in the very tiny minority.