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You are hereIACImplications of DC Circuit Hearing Net Neutrality AppealSubmitted by Scott Cleland on Thu, 2011-10-06 18:16Since the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals was selected to hear appeals of the FCC's Open Internet Order -- it is now even more likely that the FCC's net neutrality regulations will be overturned in court as unlawful and/or unconstitutional.
The D.C. Circuit is the Appeals Court that traditionally hears cases involving independent regulatory agencies like the FCC, so the D.C. Circuit Judges are very familiar with both the limits of the FCC's statutory authority and the FCC's proven penchant for trying to overreach their statutory authority. In a nutshell, the FCC's legal case stands on two very slippery assumptions.
Why Verizon Wins Appeal of FCC's Net RegsSubmitted by Scott Cleland on Fri, 2011-09-30 18:19See my Forbes Tech Capitalist post here "Why Verizon Wins Appeal of FCC's Net Regs."
FCC is Losing the Wireless FutureSubmitted by Scott Cleland on Mon, 2011-03-14 16:35It will be surprising if the Republican FCC Commissioners and a bipartisan majority of Congress do not oppose the FCC's unwarranted war on wireless competition policy.
The linchpin of the FCC's de-competition policy to restore the FCC to its pre-1996 monopoly regulation glory days, and to put the FCC in more control of the communications sector going forward, is to politically define away the existence of "effective competition," in order to justify FCC regulation of the mobile Internet.
Paid Prioritization: The Demonization of Market EconomicsSubmitted by Scott Cleland on Mon, 2010-12-13 12:11Now we know what "real net neutrality" and "openness" are, and that they are the antithesis of free market economics or competition. As the FreePress-led letter to the FCC made clear on Friday: "Paid prioritization is the antithesis of openness. Any framework that does not prohibit such economic discrimination arrangements is not real net neutrality." What is "paid prioritization?"
Remember FreePress' last Uneconomics 101 lesson was that "above-cost pricing" was an "unfair business practice." Pages
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