A federal appeals court has ruled that the Federal Communications Commission lacks the authority to require broadband providers to give equal treatment to all Internet traffic flowing over their networks.
Tuesday’s ruling by the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia is a big victory for the Comcast Corporation, the nation’s largest cable company. It had challenged the FCC’s authority to impose so called “net neutrality” obligations.
It marks a serious setback for the F.C.C., which needs authority to regulate the Internet in order to push ahead with key parts of its national broadband plan.
This is kind of a big deal
Looks like we are now a government only for fake people. Hurray activist judges and years of court packing by Bush and Reagan!
Goodbye open web. It’s been a great 15 years and will likely never be rivaled again.
This makes me sad in so many ways. Well really just the one, but it’s more dramatic if I say “so many ways.”
But seriously. This isn’t cool, government. NOT COOL!