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U.S. Appeals Court Upholds Net Neutrality Rules in Full

posted by janrinok on Tuesday June 14 2016, @09:12PM   
from the net-for-all dept.

mendax writes:

In a bit of good news for the Obama administration (and most Americans), the U.S. D.C Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the FCC's Open Internet Order rules:

High-speed internet service can be defined as a utility, a federal court has ruled, a decision clearing the way for more rigorous policing of broadband providers and greater protections for web users.

The court's decision upholds the F.C.C. on the declaration of broadband as a utility, the most significant aspect of the rules. That has broad-reaching implications for web and telecommunications companies and signals a shift in the government's view of broadband as a service that should be equally accessible to all Americans, rather than a luxury that does not need close government supervision.

The court's opinion can be found here.

takyon: Also at Tom's Hardware. Alternate link for the Appeals Court decision.

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• Re:AT&T Re:AT&T (Score: 0, Troll) by frojack on Tuesday June 14 2016, @11:06PM

  by frojack (1554) on Tuesday June 14 2016, @11:06PM (#360235) Journal

  And some that went too far, but are better in their too-far state than no regulation would be.

  Spoken like the bureaucrat's whore.

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• Re:AT&T (Score: 2) by Subsentient on Wednesday June 15 2016, @12:34AM

  by Subsentient (1111) on Wednesday June 15 2016, @12:34AM (#360285) Homepage Journal

  Hold on dearie, I need to file a Request for Cunnilingus application before we can get down to business.

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