Steve Mensing, Editor/FCC
♦ While I do not support the FCC’s rules supplanting carefully crafted state laws governing municipal broadband providers, meritorious provisions exist in the FCC’s “Net Neutrality” rulings that make good consumer sense. These are the rules governing “No Blocking”, “No Throttling”, and “No Paid Prioritization”. Here from an FCC article on “Open Internet”:
• No Blocking: broadband providers may not block access to legal content, applications, services, or non-harmful devices.
• No Throttling: broadband providers may not impair or degrade lawful Internet traffic on the basis of content, applications, services, or non-harmful devices.
• No Paid Prioritization: broadband providers may not favor some lawful Internet traffic over other lawful traffic in exchange for consideration of any kind—in other words, no “fast lanes.” This rule also bans ISPs from prioritizing content and services of their affiliates.
To learn more about “Open Internet” on the FCC’s website:
http://www.fcc.gov/openinternet?
