Appeals Court Strikes Down FCC’s Net Neutrality Rules, Citing Supreme Court Decision
U.S. Court of Appeals Thursday knocked down Net neutrality regulations pit telecommunications companies and Internet service providers against the Federal Communications Commission.
The ruling comes after the FCC voted last year to Restoration regulations This would require ISPs (including companies such as AT&T, T-Mobile and Verizon) to treat Internet traffic equally.
Net neutrality advocates argue that these regulations protected consumer Avoid being charged high prices for accessing certain types of data, such as streaming video, or having speed limits when accessing content from companies that compete with your ISP.
Critics of these regulations argue that they take away the ability of Internet service providers to manage Internet traffic and make critical business decisions about their data infrastructure without government intervention.
First in FCC introduce Net neutrality regulations under Democratic former President Barack Obama. they are dismantled It took on new life during the first administration of Republican Donald Trump and then under the presidency of Democrat Joe Biden.
Many industry observers expect they will rollback again Last November, President-elect Trump selected Brendan Carr to serve as FCC chairman in Trump’s incoming second administration. But the all-Republican decision control panel Even before Kahl took the helm at the agency, rulings from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit had killed net neutrality at the federal level.
In response to the decision, outgoing FCC Chairman Jessica Rosenworcel said in a statement statement American citizens want “a fast, open, and fair Internet.”
“It’s clear that Congress now needs to heed their calls to take responsibility for net neutrality and enshrine open internet principles into federal law,” Rosenworcel said.
in his own statementCarr said the internet will not break away from the lack of net neutrality rules and that the Biden administration’s efforts to impose utility-like regulations on the internet are over-regulation rather than allowing “America’s internet to thrive.”
In his ruling, Judge Richard Allen Griffin said the FCC’s treatment of internet companies was inconsistent and that the reinstated net neutrality rules were part of “the FCC’s heavy-handed regulatory regime.”
The court’s ruling cited the U.S. Supreme Court’s Loper Bright decision in June, which overturned a 1984 precedent that deferred to federal agencies interpreting the law in the areas they regulate.
The ruling does not affect state laws on net neutrality in California, Colorado and Washington, The New York Times famous.
