[opendtv] Re: Watch FCC's Ajit Pai dress up as Santa and wield a lightsaber to mock net neutrality rules
- From: "Manfredi, Albert E" <albert.e.manfredi@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2017 01:50:40 +0000
John Shutt wrote:
You say:
"The FCC was PERFECTLY within its rights to re-classify broadband service in
2015,
If this is the case as you assert, then the FCC was also PERFECTLY within its
rights to re-re-classify boradband service in 2017 back to the pre-2015
definition.
Yes and no. (At least, we have seen that it has NOTHING to do with Congress. So
Chairman Pai's assertion that the FCC overstepped its charter, and needs to go
to Congress, is simply false. Just another lie. And aggravating, coming from
the FCC.)
The difference being, every FCC since the beginning of the broadband era had
tried to achieve neutral behavior from the ISPs, because of issues like Vonage,
BitTorrent, Netflix, and many others less publicized, which were listed in an
article I posted. *Many* examples of non-neutral behavior. Even Michael Powell
had to deal with this, and did so honorably, in his job as FCC Chair.
Reclassifying under Title II was done to fix a long-standing problem. The
courts agreed. Instead, this latest action is totally capricious. Not only is
it capricious because the evidence says the opposite of what the Chairman
claims, wrt investment in broadband, but even more capricious because this is
one Chairman who doesn't give a damn about neutrality! Which virtually
everybody wants, and expects, of any telecom service they pay for. Don't you
expect a *guarantee* of neutrality from your post office, telephone service,
and your Internet access? What's the difference? None!
That's why we need the courts to do the right thing.
Bert
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