Posted on 03/13/2015 5:56:21 AM PDT by grundle
The Federal Communications Commission has finally published its full net neutrality rules on its Web site. And they're not for the faint of heart. Together with the dissents from the agency's Republican commissioners, the document adds up to 400 pages.
The release of the rules comes two weeks after the FCC voted to approve them in a historic, polarized vote at the commission. Now begins the next chapter in the story. Expect Internet providers to comb through the publication, probing the rules for legal weaknesses they can take to court.
The FCC's net neutrality order seeks to prevent Internet providers from blocking Web traffic, slowing it down or setting up paid fast lanes. It reflects a year's worth of intense lobbying by carriers and Web companies — not to mention the public, whose 4 million written comments to the FCC helped convince the agency to adopt far more aggressive regulations.
"That public input has created a robust record, enabling the Commission to adopt new rules that are clear and sustainable," the FCC writes in the order.
Internet providers vowed to press for other alternatives.
"We are confident the issue will be resolved by bipartisan action by Congress or a future FCC, or by the courts," said AT&T in a statement Thursday.
To see the document for yourself, check it out below.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
A bit of light reading for your weekend.
I spent ten minutes scanning this.
First, it reads like a thesis....NOT rules. The citations and documented references? That’s typical thesis stuff. Rules don’t cite things like this usually....go look at IRS or agricultural rules.
Second, who wrote the document? It wasn’t written by any of the five members. To consolidate something like this...you’d need a chief editor and at least five or six individuals with different sections. So, who exactly wrote this?
Third, what exactly did they vote on? Three votes for what? This is not a document on rules....it’s a thesis paper project at best. If you ask me....they have some explaining to do...what exactly did they vote on?
They will now interpret this document any way they want and impose whatever they want. NO ONE WILL STAND UP FOR THE CITIZENRY!
The best reading is at the end of the document, the dissenting opinions.
Your observations indicate that this was written by eggheads in some campus ivory tower someplace.
I guaran-damned-tee it.
Where is Regandude? He said there was a little over 100 pages and mostly footnotes.
Good point. I noticed the same thing when I started reading it.
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