Craig Birkmaier posted:
https://techcrunch.com/2017/04/27/the-fccs-anti-net-neutrality-proposal-is-a-giant-question-mark/
Here are the salient points:
"The NPRM is named, in patriotic fashion, 'Restoring Internet Freedom.' To
whom, though?"
Exactly. That was my question too. To whom? To the special interests, certainly
not to Internet broadband users.
"Remember, this is about the entire basis for the FCC even being able to have
these rules in the first place. That there’s so little to say about the
alternatives to Title II says a lot."
Indeed it does. Most of what we see on this matter, from the FCC and from
Craig, is arm waving.
"For example: '…prior to 2015, many large Internet service providers
voluntarily abided by the 2010 no-blocking rule in the absence of a regulatory
obligation to do so. Do we have reason to think providers would behave
differently today if the Commission were to eliminate the no-blocking rule?'"
Obviously, the answer is yes. First, we saw this blocking actually occurring,
with Netflix streams, a couple of years ago. Hadn't happened yet in 2010. Now
it did. That was one huge impetus to get people behind reclassification to
Title II, in 2014-2015.
But more to the point, in 2010 is when TV online streaming really began to take
off. The conflict of interest did not exist much before then, and certainly did
not exist before 2006. The world has changed from the old days, when MVPDs and
OTA, or DVDs for rent, were the only ways to get TV content.
Bert
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