New Evidence Administration Support of Net Neutrality Fading
Media reports apparently missed the subtle, but important and telling political weakening since April of the Administration's official position in defense of the FCC's beleaguered Open Internet Order.
- This relative official softening of the Administration's opposition to efforts to overturn the FCC's controversial net neutrality regulations means that it is more likely on the margin that:
- This fall the Senate will pass a Resolution of Disapproval of the unpopular, and small-constituency-supported, FCC Open Internet Order, and
- The President in the end, will not veto a bipartisan, bicameral rejection of unnecessary regulation of the Internet, which threatens the economic growth and job creation, and which has miniscule voter support.
Bottom-line the Administration officially signaled, albeit cryptically, that it would not veto the House appropriation bill that funds the FCC, among other agencies, specifically over the Congressional prohibition of the FCC spending money on implementing the FCC Open Internet Order.