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WSJ Report: FCC Plans Net Neutrality Do-Over

By james_fudge

The Wall Street Journal reports that the Federal Communication Commission plans to try regulating the Internet again using older rules that were written for phone networks to stop broadband service providers from blocking access to different types of data. But the real reason to use older language is probably to avoid another rebuke in the courts when service providers try to challenge the new regulations.

Chairman Julius Genachowski suffered a setback in early April, when a U.S. appeals court ruled that the FCC overstepped its authority in citing Comcast for slowing some Internet traffic on its network. In that unanimous decision, a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit ruled that the FCC exceeded its authority when it sanctioned Comcast in 2008 for preventing some subscribers from using file-sharing services to download large files. Read More

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Full post as published by GamePolitics.com on May 05, 2010 (boomark / email).