FCC planning new Internet rules that will gut Net
Neutrality. Get ready to pay more for the stuff you love online.
Xeni Jardin at 4:31 pm Wed, Apr 23, 2014 Boingboing.net
The Wall Street Journal was first to report that The Federal Communications
Commission will propose new open Internet rules this Thursday that will allow
content companies to pay Internet service providers "for special access to
consumers."
Under the new rules, service providers may not block or
discriminate against specific websites, but they can charge certain
sites or services for preferential traffic treatment if the ISPs'
discrimination is "commercially reasonable."
Bye-bye, Net Neutrality, and the internet as we know it.
Hello, greater connectivity gap between rich and poor in America.
For what it's worth: The FCC's current Chairman, Tom Wheeler, previously
worked as a VC and lobbyist for the cable and wireless industry.
The FCC Commissioners' email addresses, to which
concerned citizens might send concerned email: Tom.Wheeler@fcc.gov
Mignon.Clyburn@fcc.gov Jessica.Rosenworcel@fcc.gov Ajit.Pai@fcc.gov
Mike.O'Rielly@fcc.gov. The FCC's main telephone line is 1-888-225-5322. More contact information and postal mail address here.
From the New
York Times:
The new rules,
according to the people briefed on them, will allow a company like Comcast or
Verizon to negotiate separately with each content company – like Netflix,
Amazon, Disney or Google – and charge different companies different amounts for
priority service. That, of course, could increase costs for content companies,
which would then have an incentive to pass on those costs to consumers as part
of their subscription prices.
Proponents of net neutrality have feared that such a
framework would empower large, wealthy companies and prevent small start-ups,
which might otherwise be the next Twitter or Facebook, for example, from
gaining any traction in the market.
From Mashable,
confirmation:
In a statement issued to Mashable, the FCC said the draft
rules would propose "that broadband providers would be required to offer a
baseline level of service to their subscribers, along with the ability to enter
into individual negotiations with content providers." The draft, written
by FCC chair Tom Wheeler and his staff, will be circulated within the FCC on
Thursday, and the commissioners will vote on a final proposal on May 15.
Michael Weinberg at Public
Knowledge:
The FCC is inviting ISPs to pick winners and losers
online. The very essence of a "commercial reasonableness" standard is
discrimination. And the core of net neutrality is non discrimination. This is
not net neutrality. This standard allows ISPs to impose a new price of entry
for innovation on the Internet. When the Commission used a commercial
reasonableness standard for wireless data roaming, it explicitly found that it
may be commercially reasonable for a broadband ISP to charge an edge provider
higher rates because its service is competitively threatening.
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