Federal Appeals Court rules against FCC on Net Neutrality2014-02-03 09:51 by DanielaTags: FCC, Net Neutrality
On Jan. 14, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit voided key provisions of the FCC's 2010 "Open Internet" order - its latest effort to ensure that the Internet remain something more than another channel on cable TV. The court rejected the FCC's approach - in particular, its rules that treat broadband providers like traditional phone companies in order to bar them from discriminating against or blocking any data distributed over their networks. This means that the Federal Communications Commission can no longer stand in the way of AT&T, Verizon and other Internet service providers that might want to create Internet express lanes. Net neutrality is the basic premise for everything we do online. It ensures that our Internet service providers don't pick and choose what we see online. It makes sure the Internet is non-discriminatory to companies based on their ISP relationship or how much cash they cough up to them. Also, Net neutrality means that your Internet provider cannot improve or degrade your connection to any location beyond its network. Traffic must move to you from Google, Bing, Yahoo, Facebook or any other current or future service with the same speed/efficiency at any one time. Read more -here-
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