Summary
A US appeals court ruled that the FCC lacks authority to reinstate federal net neutrality rules, blocking Biden administration efforts to restore open internet protections.
The 2015 rules, repealed in 2017, mandated ISPs treat internet traffic equally and barred content blocking or prioritization.
The court cited a recent Supreme Court decision Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo, limiting federal agency powers.
FCC Chair Jessica Rosenworcel urged Congress to pass federal net neutrality laws, while industry groups praised the decision, claiming it will boost innovation.
The ruling leaves state net neutrality laws, like California’s, intact.
It’s funny how they spell the word profits in a new trendy way.
The innovation is in new ways to screw over the consumer.
Perhaps they meant to say limitation. It’s weird how in my entire life, corpo always uses the same phrases, and learning from history, they have used them for so long. Even back during the AT&T antitrust in the 80s, they were bemoaning how innovation would be stifled if AT&T was broken up.
I can’t wait to see innovations return like, listening to streaming music on your favorite app at work on Verizon, 5pm comes around. For some mysterious reason, your app stops streaming music. Launch Verizon’s preferred streaming app. It works just fine! (Actual thing I experienced with daily frequency before net neutrality suddenly made their network perform like expected.)
But they also insist that competition breeds innovations when you propose the state just seize their unregulated utility