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A Federal Communications Commission lawyer faced a skeptical panel of judges today as the FCC defended its repeal of net neutrality rules and deregulation of the broadband industry.
FCC General Counsel Thomas Johnson struggled to explain why broadband shouldn't be considered a telecommunications service, and struggled to explain the FCC's failure to protect public safety agencies from Internet providers blocking or slowing down content.
Oral arguments were held today in the case, which is being decided by a three-judge panel of the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. (Audio of the four-hour-plus oral arguments is available here.) Throttling of firefighters' data plans played a major role in today's oral arguments.
[...] The lawsuit seeking to overturn the net neutrality repeal was filed by more than three dozen entities, including state attorneys general, consumer advocacy groups, and tech companies such as Mozilla and Vimeo.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 04 2019, @02:12PM (1 child)
Other than the speed at which the dots and dashes (ones and zeros) are transmitted, what is the difference between telegraph and the Internet? Well, we did replace all those telegraph operators with computers and paper with screens. But besides that?
(Score: 3, Touché) by Spamalope on Monday February 04 2019, @03:22PM
Lobbying and taxing have advanced quite a bit.