{"id":8875,"date":"2019-06-11T16:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-06-11T20:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.publicknowledge.org\/uncategorized\/net-neutrality-not-new-but-more-important-than-ever\/"},"modified":"2021-12-07T18:50:28","modified_gmt":"2021-12-07T18:50:28","slug":"net-neutrality-not-new-but-more-important-than-ever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/publicknowledge.org\/net-neutrality-not-new-but-more-important-than-ever\/","title":{"rendered":"Net Neutrality: Not New, But More Important Than Ever"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" mozallowfullscreen=\"\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/player.twitch.tv\/?channel=fight_for_the_future&amp;muted=true\" webkitallowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<hr>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><span id=\"docs-internal-guid-e9a6baea-7fff-d643-4d59-f9e773e093fe\" style=\"font-size: 1.6rem;\">Today marks the one year anniversary that the repeal of net neutrality, led by Federal Communications Commission Chairman Ajit Pai, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.publicknowledge.org\/blog\/net-neutrality-not-new-but-more-important-than-ever\/\" style=\"font-size: 1.6rem;\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">went into effect<\/a><span style=\"font-size: 1.6rem;\">. We\u2019re reflecting on what has happened in the past year, and <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.publicknowledge.org\/blog\/net-neutrality-not-new-but-more-important-than-ever\/\" style=\"font-size: 1.6rem;\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">urging the U.S. Senate<\/a><span style=\"font-size: 1.6rem;\"> to step up and pass the Save the Internet Act to restore strong net neutrality consumer protections and enshrined them in statute.<\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><span id=\"docs-internal-guid-e9a6baea-7fff-d643-4d59-f9e773e093fe\">First, some history. <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.publicknowledge.org\/blog\/net-neutrality-not-new-but-more-important-than-ever\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Net neutrality<\/a> is <a href=\"https:\/\/whatisnetneutrality.tumblr.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">not a new concept<\/a>. It is about making sure that consumers control what they can access online. For businesses that reach consumers over the internet, net neutrality is about ensuring content reaches those consumers. For <a href=\"https:\/\/whatisnetneutrality.tumblr.com\/timeline\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">almost 20 years<\/a>, in both Democratic and Republican administrations, the FCC has used its power to protect an open internet through rules, policy principles, and enforcement actions. The term \u201cnet neutrality\u201d was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/2016\/6\/14\/11936484\/net-neutrality-essay-tim-wu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">coined<\/a> in 2002. In the mid-2000s, Republicans pushed forward with net neutrality policies at the FCC. Republican FCC Chairman Michael Powell outlined the <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.fcc.gov\/public\/attachments\/DOC-243556A1.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">four internet freedoms<\/a> in 2004, and in 2005, Republican FCC Chairman Kevin Martin and a unanimous FCC adopted the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fcc.gov\/document\/appropriate-framework-broadband-access-internet-over-wireline\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Internet Policy Statement<\/a>, defining net neutrality principles as FCC policy to protect the open internet. These actions underscored the fact that the idea of a non-discriminatory internet was conjoined with the birth of the internet.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><span id=\"docs-internal-guid-e9a6baea-7fff-d643-4d59-f9e773e093fe\">The George W. Bush administration <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/how-the-fccs-net-neutrality-plan-breaks-with-50-years-of-history\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">continued to enforce<\/a> net neutrality rules under Chairman Martin, as did the Obama administration under Chairman Julius Genachowski. Broadband providers such as Comcast and Verizon challenged each of the government\u2019s efforts to protect consumers. In 2015, after several trips to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, Chairman Tom Wheeler\u2019s FCC adopted the Open Internet Order, rooting the agency\u2019s net neutrality rules in its longstanding, robust statutory authority over telecommunications services, and giving the FCC the ability to police harmful or discriminatory conduct by monopoly broadband providers. In 2016 and 2017, the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals <a href=\"https:\/\/www.publicknowledge.org\/blog\/net-neutrality-not-new-but-more-important-than-ever\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">twice upheld<\/a> the Wheeler FCC\u2019s Open Internet Order. In December 2017, Chairman Ajit Pai\u2019s FCC repealed the Open Internet Order, ignoring the opposition of millions of Americans and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.publicconsultation.org\/united-states\/overwhelming-bipartisan-public-opposition-to-repealing-net-neutrality-persists\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">overwhelming public support<\/a> for net neutrality consumer protections.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><span id=\"docs-internal-guid-e9a6baea-7fff-d643-4d59-f9e773e093fe\">In April of this year, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.publicknowledge.org\/blog\/net-neutrality-not-new-but-more-important-than-ever\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the House passed the Save the Internet Act<\/a>, which would reverse the repeal and codify the 2015 net neutrality rules in law. The Senate has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.congress.gov\/bill\/116th-congress\/senate-bill\/682?q=%7B%22search%22%3A%5B%22markey+save+the+internet%22%5D%7D&amp;s=3&amp;r=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">introduced the same bill<\/a>. The most common point of contention in the current round of debate over net neutrality centers on the legal authority the FCC has to police the broadband market. The 2015 Open Internet Order and the Save the Internet Act use legal authority in Title II of the Communications Act to ensure the FCC has oversight authority over broadband providers, and can step in to protect consumers if broadband providers engage in unjust, unreasonable, or discriminatory behavior. This authority also gives the FCC the necessary authority to ensure broadband providers take steps to make certain that networks are resilient and can withstand natural disasters, and that service can be restored quickly after outages. Under the Save the Internet Act, the agency would also have increased capabilities to remove barriers to deployment to speed build out of next-generation networks, like 5G, and help bridge the digital divide by addressing digital redlining, the challenges of deployment in rural areas, and access for persons with disabilities.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><span id=\"docs-internal-guid-e9a6baea-7fff-d643-4d59-f9e773e093fe\">In addition to congressional action on net neutrality, the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.publicknowledge.org\/blog\/net-neutrality-not-new-but-more-important-than-ever\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">D.C. Circuit once again<\/a> is weighing a legal challenge on the issue &#8212; this time to Chairman Pai\u2019s elimination of the agency\u2019s net neutrality protections, as well as his near-complete abdication of the agency\u2019s oversight role over broadband providers. Multiple parties, including Public Knowledge, sued the FCC arguing that it did not have the authority to reclassify broadband as an information service and that the FCC violated the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Administrative_Procedure_Act_(United_States)\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Administrative Procedure Act<\/a> (APA). If <a href=\"https:\/\/www.publicknowledge.org\/blog\/net-neutrality-not-new-but-more-important-than-ever\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">February\u2019s oral argument<\/a> was any indication of the decision to come, we expect the Court to be deeply skeptical about the FCC\u2019s justification for its decision to eliminate its net neutrality protections, as well as the agency\u2019s compliance with the APA.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><span id=\"docs-internal-guid-e9a6baea-7fff-d643-4d59-f9e773e093fe\">If the FCC loses in court, it is likely the 2015 Open Internet Order will be restored until Congress passes legislation or the FCC adopts new rules. In any case, the 2015 rules could again be short-lived. Therefore, it is essential that the Senate <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.publicknowledge.org\/blog\/net-neutrality-not-new-but-more-important-than-ever\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">step up and pass the Save the Internet Act<\/a> to codify popular and essential net neutrality protections.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><span id=\"docs-internal-guid-e9a6baea-7fff-d643-4d59-f9e773e093fe\">The importance of restoring net neutrality protections is obvious for consumers. The American public wants certainty that after paying among the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vice.com\/en_us\/article\/j5zpw7\/us-wireless-data-prices-are-among-the-most-expensive-on-earth\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">highest prices in the world for broadband<\/a> service, they can actually access the content they want online, without the cable or telephone company blocking or slowing content, or cutting a deal with another content provider to prioritize services other than those the consumer wants to access. And consumers also want the FCC empowered to be the cop on the beat, prepared to step in if broadband providers attempt to engage in unjust, unreasonable, or discriminatory conduct.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><span id=\"docs-internal-guid-e9a6baea-7fff-d643-4d59-f9e773e093fe\">Title II allows for consumers to access what they want online and innovators to build out their own technologies without asking permission from legacy Internet Service Providers (ISPs). Without these rules, there is nothing that will stop ISPs from standing between consumers and each website they try to access. Net neutrality is critical for <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.publicknowledge.org\/blog\/net-neutrality-not-new-but-more-important-than-ever\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">so many reasons<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><span id=\"docs-internal-guid-e9a6baea-7fff-d643-4d59-f9e773e093fe\" style=\"font-size: 1.6rem;\">These concerns are more than hypothetical.<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 1.6rem;\"> History is <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.freepress.net\/our-response\/expert-analysis\/explainers\/net-neutrality-violations-brief-history\" style=\"font-size: 1.6rem;\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">full of examples<\/a><span style=\"font-size: 1.6rem;\"> of broadband providers violating net neutrality. Since last year\u2019s repeal, providers have been <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.publicknowledge.org\/blog\/net-neutrality-not-new-but-more-important-than-ever\/\" style=\"font-size: 1.6rem;\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">slowly and quietly discriminating<\/a><span style=\"font-size: 1.6rem;\"> and throttling certain content. This trend will only grow over time.&nbsp;<\/span><span id=\"docs-internal-guid-e9a6baea-7fff-d643-4d59-f9e773e093fe\" style=\"font-size: 1.6rem;\">The House has acted. Now it is time for the Senate to do its job and <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.publicknowledge.org\/blog\/net-neutrality-not-new-but-more-important-than-ever\/\" style=\"font-size: 1.6rem;\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pass legislation<\/a><span style=\"font-size: 1.6rem;\"> to codify consumer protections that an overwhelming majority of Americans support.<\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><span id=\"docs-internal-guid-e9a6baea-7fff-d643-4d59-f9e773e093fe\">As this debate plays out, the public should take notice of whether their senators stand for a free and open internet, and for an FCC empowered to actually protect consumers, or with a handful of powerful cable and telephone companies who, while influential in Washington, are <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vice.com\/en_us\/article\/7xmxza\/america-hates-comcast-more-than-ever\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">routinely the most despised companies<\/a> in the U.S. The public should ask why broadband providers that claim to support net neutrality spent <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fastcompany.com\/40507541\/amid-net-neutrality-debate-biggest-isps-spent-at-least-26-3-million-on-lobbying\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">tens of millions of dollars<\/a> lobbying to eliminate popular net neutrality protections, and why they have <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/tech-policy\/2018\/03\/attverizon-lobbyists-to-aggressively-sue-states-that-enact-net-neutrality\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">threatened to sue states<\/a> that fill the current void by enacting their own laws. We must make sure that broadband providers are not free to pursue unjust, unreasonable, or discriminatory behavior, and that policymakers do not help giant cable and telephone companies at the expense of the public. On today\u2019s one year anniversary of the repeal, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.publicknowledge.org\/blog\/net-neutrality-not-new-but-more-important-than-ever\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">we ask Congress to take action and save the internet<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today marks the one year anniversary that the repeal of net neutrality, led by Federal Communications Commission Chairman Ajit Pai, went into effect. 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