Not worth entertaining Bert any longer, but John raises a few interesting
points, but did not go far enough...
On Jan 6, 2019, at 6:44 AM, John Shutt (Redacted sender "shuttj" for DMARC)
<dmarc-noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Bert wrote:
Telecom neutrality took effect, by an act of Congress, in 1906. We are simply
talking about that guarantee of neutrality in today's telecom services.
Which, as we all know, evolved beyond just voice. The Internet is a two-way
nationwide (and worldwide) comm service, to businesses and to households.
Therefore by definition, a telecom service, just as voice telephony is a
telecom service. It's that freakin' simple.
And that telecom neutrality is still in place, is it not?
Why do you continue to treat the specific “Net Neutrality” rules implemented
by the Wheeler FCC in 2015, approved on a strict party line vote, upheld in a
DC court by a 2-1 decision, in effect for two years, then repealed by the
Pai FCC in 2018 along similar party lines, as if the Pai decision reversed
113 years of precedent?
All Pai did was undo what Wheeler had repeatedly said he had no authority to
do, until Wheeler decided (with much pressure from his boss) he did have the
authority. Pai did so on a similar party line vote.
The result? The internet today is regulated in exactly the manner that it
was regulated in 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011, etc.
Your 113 years of telecom neutrality has been left untouched.
If you feel so passionately about reclassifying internet service, your
efforts should not be focused on “crooked” Chairman Pai, but to the new
Pelosi Congress. I feel your cause will be received more favorably there,
and finally the correct path to “Net Neutrality,” namely the lawmaking
progress, will be followed. Sweeping rules by fiat was not the correct path,
and I thank Chairman Pai for righting that wrong.
John