{"id":6400,"date":"2010-04-28T15:54:53","date_gmt":"2010-04-28T15:54:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.publicknowledge.org\/press-release\/public-knowledge-tells-fcc-hearing-rules-needed-to-protect-open-internet\/"},"modified":"2024-05-09T19:42:42","modified_gmt":"2024-05-09T19:42:42","slug":"public-knowledge-tells-fcc-hearing-rules-needed-to-protect-open-internet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/publicknowledge.org\/public-knowledge-tells-fcc-hearing-rules-needed-to-protect-open-internet\/","title":{"rendered":"Public Knowledge Tells FCC Hearing Rules Needed To Protect Open Internet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Public Knowledge President and Co-Founder Gigi B. Sohn said today that the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) should enact rules to meet the threats to an open Internet.<\/p>\n<p>Testifying at a Commission hearing in Seattle on \u201cApproaches to Preserving the Open Internet,\u201d Sohn said that, \u201cthe open, decentralized nature of the Internet is at risk, as the cable, telephone and wireless companies that provide the on-ramps to the Internet seek to insert themselves in the middle \u2013 picking winners and losers in the process. The FCC\u2019s Open Internet rulemaking proceeding, which would prohibit this kind of discrimination, is a welcome step towards preserving the open Internet.\u201d\u00a0 The hearing is scheduled for 9:30 a.m. PST, 12:30 p.m. EST.\u00a0 The livestream is available <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/ve0qCggnAvw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The FCC in response to the threats should enact a set of rules built around the sections of the Communications Act which bar \u201cunjust or unreasonable\u201d behavior by telecommunications carriers, and should apply those rules to high-speed Internet (broadband) services. Such an approach would put the Commission on a sound, yet flexible, legal footing, Sohn said.<\/p>\n<p>Addressing one of the central issues in the Net Neutrality debate, Sohn said in her oral statement that broadband providers should not be able to sell services that prioritize one customer\u2019s traffic over another\u2019s.\u00a0 Such an approach would favor wealthy companies and would create a two-tiered Internet, Sohn said.\u00a0 In her written testimony, Sohn said:\u00a0 \u201cThe Commission should find prioritization presumptively unreasonable when it involves the use of deep packet inspection or other tools that invade users privacy; degrades another user\u2019s service; or allows the access provider to pick winners and losers among application, services and content providers, thereby changing the fundamental nature of the Internet.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Public Knowledge President and Co-Founder Gigi B. Sohn said today that the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) should enact rules to meet the threats to an open Internet.<\/p>\n<p>Testifying at a Commission hearing in Seattle on \u201cApproaches to Preserving the Open Internet,\u201d Sohn said that, \u201cthe open, decentralized nature of the Internet is at risk, as the cable, telephone and wireless companies that provide the on-ramps to the Internet seek to insert themselves in the middle \u2013 picking winners and losers in the process. The FCC\u2019s Open Internet rulemaking proceeding, which would prohibit this kind of discrimination, is a welcome step towards preserving the open Internet.\u201d&nbsp; The hearing is scheduled for 9:30 a.m. PST, 12:30 p.m. EST.&nbsp; It will be streamed <a href=\"http:\/\/fcc.gov\/live\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Sohn\u2019s written statement is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.publicknowledge.org\/pdf\/seattle-testimony.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":50,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[13],"class_list":["post-6400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-press-release","tag-net-neutrality"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.5 (Yoast SEO v26.5) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Public Knowledge Tells FCC Hearing Rules Needed To Protect Open Internet - Public Knowledge<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Public Knowledge promotes freedom of expression, an open internet, and access to affordable communications tools and creative works. 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