[opendtv] Re: Multichannel News: New York Governor Mandates Net Neutrality in Contracts
- From: "Manfredi, Albert E" <albert.e.manfredi@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 27 Jan 2018 02:23:54 +0000
John Shutt wrote:
No, Bert. What the FCC did in 2015 was to act unilaterally to SET
policy rather than implement it.
Not true. That policy had been in effect ever since 1906. The FCC, in 2015,
merely fixed an anomaly that was initially created ca. 2000, when ISPs were no
longer reached over Title II telephone lines (which permitted a huge amount of
choice), and *instead* had become local monopolies.
Even Michael Powell knew that Internet service needed to be neutral, when he
ran up against the Vonage case. So here was a case where the old shortcut, no
need to regulate ISPs when there was ample competition, came home to roost. Now
there was no competition, and the problems began. Everyone saw this, except the
extremists. Sorry, John, but that's how it happened.
Chairman Pai, who was on the board at the time of this 'activist' action
by the FCC Commission, simply 'unrung' the bell that Chairman Wheeler
took upon himself, with explicit direction from the executive branch, rang.
Commissioner Pai, at that time, sounded like, WAY out to lunch, in almost
everything he said. He had no clue. For example, to claim that Congress had to
classify ISP service, when originally the *FCC* had classified it, was simply a
lie. There was nothing "activist" or "overreaching" about any of it. Just lies
from that Commissioner. At the time, though, I thought he was just being a
typically contrarian minority Commissioner. Now he's Chairman. He has to do his
freakin' JOB.
If Net Neutrality is vital to the operation of the internet, then Congress
and the President need to set policy for the FCC to implement. To date,
Congress has not.
Internet service is a telecom service, John. It's not frivolous cable TV.
Internet service had ALWAYS been described as "advanced telecom service." I
already quoted all of that. And telecom service had *always* been mandated to
be neutral. The only issue was that the FCC had misclassified ISP service,
during the dialup era, as I explained and quoted already, because they saw it
as just something else one could reach over the telephone line. No longer the
case, with broadband.
That anomaly had to be corrected. The courts explained to the FCC *how* that
anomaly had to be corrected. Surely, you're not going to suggest that Internet
service does NOT need to be neutral? Right? Many millions of people wrote to
the FCC to make damned sure Internet service be mandated neutral.
The monopoly service, in the dialup era, was the telco link. That was already
regulated under Title II. With broadband, the monopoly service became the ISP.
The FCC did exactly the right thing, to correctly classify a telecom service as
a telecom service. Practically EVERYBODY understood that, John.
Please be careful with political name-calling, Bert.
Sorry, John, but pig-headed, stubborn extremists, who won't do the job they are
supposed to do, need to be called out in no uncertain terms. If the shoe fits
...
Bert
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