{"id":8734,"date":"2018-04-23T21:37:00","date_gmt":"2018-04-24T01:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.publicknowledge.org\/uncategorized\/net-neutrality-does-not-end-today-we-still-dont-know-when-it-will-this-is-unusual\/"},"modified":"2023-09-25T17:59:19","modified_gmt":"2023-09-25T17:59:19","slug":"net-neutrality-does-not-end-today-we-still-dont-know-when-it-will-this-is-unusual","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/publicknowledge.org\/net-neutrality-does-not-end-today-we-still-dont-know-when-it-will-this-is-unusual\/","title":{"rendered":"Net Neutrality Does Not End Today. We Still Don\u2019t Know When It Will. This Is Unusual."},"content":{"rendered":"\n

This is an edited version of a <\/span><\/i>blog post<\/span><\/i><\/a> originally published on Harold Feld’s personal blog, Tales from the Sausage Factory, on WetMachine.com.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n\n\n\n

There is a lot of confusion on the effective date for the Federal Communications Commission\u2019s <\/span>2017 Net Neutrality Repeal Order<\/span><\/a>. This is not surprising, given the rather confusing way the Federal Register Notice reads.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

You can see the Federal Register Notice here<\/span><\/a>. If you look at the section labeled dates, you will see it says the following:<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cEffective dates: April 23, 2018, <\/span>except for amendatory instructions 2, 3, 5, 6, and 8<\/strong><\/em><\/span>, which are delayed as follows. <\/span>The FCC will publish a document in the Federal Register announcing the effective date(s) of the delayed amendatory instructions,<\/em><\/strong><\/span> which are contingent on OMB approval of the modified information collection requirements in <\/span>47 CFR 8.1<\/span><\/a> (amendatory instruction 5). <\/span>The Declaratory Ruling, Report and Order, and Order will also be effective upon the date announced in that same document.<\/span><\/em><\/strong>\u201d (Emphasis added.)<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Which is a very confusing way of saying the following: \u201cBefore net neutrality gets repealed and the new, much weaker disclosure obligations go into effect, we are going to wait for the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) to review the much weaker transparency rule under the Paperwork Reduction Act and other legislation that is supposed to make it harder to pass rules. Once OMB signs off, we at the FCC will publish a second notice in the Federal Register announcing when everything goes into effect. But until we do that, nothing actually happens. Zip. Nadda. Zero. Total psyche!\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is, to say the least, highly unusual. There is absolutely no reason for FCC Chairman Ajit Pai to have stretched out this process so ridiculously long. It is especially puzzling in light of Chairman Pai\u2019s insistence that he had to rush through repeal of net neutrality over the objections of just about everyone but the ISPs and their cheerleaders. If Pai thought it was a total emergency to take his vote in December, why did he basically extend the current Title II regime indefinitely? Why hasn\u2019t Pai restored our Internet Freedom, <\/span>as promised in the overdramatic title of the Order<\/span><\/a>? Why has Pai instead forced us to languish here in the terrible regulatory nightmare that is the merely \u201copen internet\u201d rather than the private sector-controlled de-regulatory paradise he and his fellow Republican Commissioners have promised us? In fact, <\/span>the FCC didn\u2019t even submit the new rule to OMB for approval until March 27.<\/span><\/a> For a guy who was all on fire to repeal Title II and free broadband providers, Pai sure has taken his time making it actually happen.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Somebody who is an actual reporter might want to ask him about that. But one thing is clear. For whatever reason, Ajit Pai is taking his own sweet time restoring that internet freedom he claimed to be so obsessed about back in December. Whenever the net neutrality appeal does happen, it won\u2019t be Monday, April 23.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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