Group Files FCC Motion To Delay Net Neutrality Proceedings (thehill.com) 46
"A public interest group wants the Federal Communications Commission to hold off on its proposal to kill net neutrality regulations," according to The Hill. An anonymous reader quotes their report:
The National Hispanic Media Coalition (NHMC) filed a motion on Friday to delay the FCC's proceeding to undo its net neutrality rules, pending the release of documents the group has requested from the agency. The NHMC says it filed a request under the Freedom of Information Act for consumer complaints about the open internet since the net neutrality rules went into place in 2015. Carmen Scurato, the group's director of legal affairs, said that the requested documents will affect the public's view of the rules... "Millions of consumers have voiced their concerns about eliminating net neutrality protections and the agency should release all complaints that members of the public have submitted showing how the Open Internet Order has served as a tool in protecting our consumer rights."
"The FCC has confirmed that there is an overwhelming amount of responsive documents, therefore the disclosure of this information must be paired with sufficient time for members of the public to review and contribute meaningful input..." the group said in a statement. "To date, the FCC has only released a small fraction of the documents requested. This is a clear indication that the FCC must delay its Net Neutrality proceeding until all documents requested by NHMC are released. The FCC must then provide NHMC and members of the public adequate time to review and comment on this information before moving forward with its Net Neutrality proceeding."
An FCC spokesman was not immediately available for comment.
"The FCC has confirmed that there is an overwhelming amount of responsive documents, therefore the disclosure of this information must be paired with sufficient time for members of the public to review and contribute meaningful input..." the group said in a statement. "To date, the FCC has only released a small fraction of the documents requested. This is a clear indication that the FCC must delay its Net Neutrality proceeding until all documents requested by NHMC are released. The FCC must then provide NHMC and members of the public adequate time to review and comment on this information before moving forward with its Net Neutrality proceeding."
An FCC spokesman was not immediately available for comment.
The big question (Score:5, Informative)
is the # of dollars the politicians received from Verizon/Comcast lobbyists greater that the number of comments against Net Neutrality ?
That is all that seems to matter these days.
Re: These days? (Score:1)
Perhaps kickstarter could help the ordinary ppl reassert their power by collectively bribing/lobbying politicians to a greater degree than concentrated wealth?
FCC pushing it through (Score:1)
Clearly, they're trying to get this through for the ISPs and doing as little as possible to meet the letter of the law in attempt to keep it under the radar.
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As far as devices, they aren't covered, which is why law enforcement has such trouble with the iPhone.
Re: FCC pushing it through (Score:1)
This is the first I'm hearing that "treating traffic equally" means no encryption, do you have a source?
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This is the first I'm hearing that "treating traffic equally" means no encryption, do you have a source?
well, it is the next logical step.
If the idea is that you can downgrade certain traffic, you need to know what the traffic is in order to do so.
Knowing the source is not good enough, as proxy nodes are a thing.
I can totally see a push, if Net Neutrality goes bye bye, for less/non-existent encryption on certain streams (like Netflix).
People who dont think that can happen, are the same ones on the fence about NN in the first place.
Re: FCC pushing it through (Score:1)
Translation: No source, it's obvious, you should be able to see it. Because conspiracy!
You know, just like Obama's Muslim indoctrination plan, and how same-sex marriage would force people to marry a gay person, and how your employees having insurance cover birth control forces you to illegally import relics from Iraq for your Bible Museum.
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I own a small local ISP. CALEA compliance is a requirement for all ISP and telecom providers regardless of Title 1 or 2 classification. You're just blowing smoke out of your ass.
And for the record, as a small ISP, we fully support Net Neutrality. It's the way the internet was designed to work and the way it always has worked. The move to Title 2 was made necessary by the Verizon lawsuit in order to reserve the right to enforce Net Neutrality. In fact it was the judge in the case who explicitly pointed that
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This is not some secret tinfoil-hat stuff, it's all quite open for anyone who looks.
Oh good, then you can post a reference please. Because as far as I can tell, CALEA applies to both Title I and Title II.
It's just that nobody who wants what the politicians call NN, including the MSM, wants to talk about it.
Yeah, I played the SJGames Illuminati card game [sjgames.com] too. "Punk Rockers control the NSA, which controls the Democrats and Big Media, all controlled by the Servants of Cthulhu". Fun game (though it needs updated groups), but if you're using it for real life then you've got a problem.
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CALEA compliance does not require the prevention of end-to-end encryption, because it's the carrier that needs to comply with Title-II regulations, not the parties that happen to be using the carrier to deliver a message. Encryption has nothing to do with the carrier at all - it is simply given messages to deliver from one party to another. There is not and has never been anything stopping you from sending encrypted data over a telephone, after all, so why would this suddenly change now?
Not up to the FCC (Score:3, Interesting)
Net neutrality using the FCC was always a bad idea from a regulatory standpoint. The FCC has no business regulating the internet or ISPs. Net neutrality needs to be passed as a law (or won via lawsuit). There is clearly public demand for a net neutrality law, so call your congress person and demand it.
Alternatively, it would be trivial to make the case that traffic shaping is a bait and switch practice (ISP offers X speed, but throttles it when you want to view your legally paid content like Netflix because it competes with their products and/or costs them bandwidth).
Re: Not up to the FCC (Score:1)
But enforcing law and establishing law are two different things. You can't just mumble them into being the same thing. Laws should not be made by unelected bureaucrats.
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However, despite being empowered to act on congresses' behalf, the FCC can not pass laws. Everything that the FCC does is subject to congressional approval, and can be overridden at any time by congress.
Haha (Score:1)
Oh man you're killing me. Like the big corps won't be throwing money at the liberals in power. The only person who doesn't take money is Bernie and we saw how the liberals treated him.
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You need a liberal party for that.
Right now you have a choice between a conservative party, and an extreme-right-wing dominionist group.
They're not Great White Males (Score:2, Insightful)
Re: They're not Great White Males (Score:2)
Shouldn't you be tweeting this?