[TriLUG] Intel bug in the news today

[Wes Garrison via TriLUG]

The FCC cannot enforce Net Neutrality under Title I.

When they tried, Verizon sued them and won, saying they didn't have the
authority to regulate non-Common Carriers.

The court agreed with Verizon that the FCC could only enforce Net
Neutrality if the Telecoms were classified under Title II.

So Tom Wheeler's FCC re-classified them under Title II.

Honestly this shouldn't be a political issue at all.  There is no
reasonable justification to not enforce Net Neutrality on the public
Internet, *especially* since the Internet was invented and funded using
public funds from DARPA, and much of the Internet was built using public
funds, especially via universities.

Access expansion continues to be funded via the Federal Universal Service
Fund fee.

The only Cogent argument (see what I did there?) that anyone can make
against Title II is that it allows rate regulation, and even if the Wheeler
FCC said they would forbear from rate regulation, that does not prevent
some future FCC from regulating rates.

I get that.

The problem is that the only way to enforce Net Neutrality currently is via
Title II.

I am happy to have ISPs be regulated under Title I if Congress will act to
preclude blocking, throttling, *and paid prioritization.*  In addition,
Congress should authorize the FCC to regulate peering so we don't end up
with situations where Cogent/Netflix have to *pay the ISPs* to send data
that has been *requested by their customers. *The customers are already
paying Comcast/Verizon/AT&T/Charter.  Netflix already pays Cogent.  Comcast
even charged Netflix to put Netflix servers in the Comcast data center.

Without competition, even rate regulation is not unreasonable.  Here are my
current choices for "high speed" Internet:
AT&T 3Mbps DSL.

My neighbors across the street can get 768Kbps.  That's Kilobits.  2001
called, and they want their Internet back.

The repeal of Net Neutrality only benefits ISPs while harming consumers *and
other businesses.  *This is the exact behavior the FCC was created to
prevent.

Here is a list of actual Net Neutrality violations by ISPs:
https://www.freepress.net/blog/2017/04/25/net-neutrality-violations-brief-history

NN is supported by the vast majority of Americans, Republican and
Democrat.  It is only in Congress that it is contested.

-Wes

_________________________________
Wesley S. Garrison
Network Engineer
Xitech Communications, Inc.
phone:  (919) 260-0803
fax:       (919) 932-5051
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On Thu, Jan 4, 2018 at 9:53 AM, Warren Myers via TriLUG <trilug at trilug.org>
wrote:

> For that dozen or so list, may I refer to actual facts?
>
> https://stratechery.com/2017/pro-neutrality-anti-title-ii/
>
> NONE of those were "neutrality" related
>
> And all were handled quite well under Title I regulations
>
> -WMM
>
> On Wed, Jan 3, 2018 at 2:35 PM, bak via TriLUG <trilug at trilug.org> wrote:
>
> >
> >
> > For a nice overview of a dozen or so ISP-related shenanigans that Net
> > Neutrality put a stop to, from the mid-2000s until implementation, may I
> > refer you to:
> >
> > https://www.savetheinternet.com/blog/2017/04/25/net-
> > neutrality-violations-brief-history <https://www.savetheinternet.
> > com/blog/2017/04/25/net-neutrality-violations-brief-history>
> >
> >
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