> Note that the law is very clear that this only is allowed "provided that equivalent categories of traffic are treated equally."
They can, for instance, slow down P2P traffic. What do you think about that?
They can, for instance, slow down P2P traffic. What do you think about that?
By this text, they'd need to show it was an exceptional and temporary necessity to deal with congestion.
The FCC is allowed to regulate telecommunication services strictly. Right now it takes a sort of a hands off approach, but they have broad authority to make rules. Before 2015, the FCC considered ISPs to be "information services" instead of "telecommunication services." So the first time the FCC proposed net neutrality rules, it tried to apply them under the "information services" framework.
The Court in 2010 (I think) found that the FCC didn't have the power to regulate "information services" so harshly. So the court canceled their net neutrality rules.
So last year the FCC reclassified ISPs as telecommunication services. Since they are allowed to harshly regulate those services, it's considered very likely to upheld by the court this time.
The only chance it gets struck down is if the court thinks the FCC was clearly wrong about ISPs being a telecommunication service. But the law is pretty clear that are. But I think some ISPs are still fighting it.
I think there should be some regulation that guarantees provider competition so that consumers could take their stand on issues like this.