Today, the D.C. Circuit struck down most of the FCC’s 2010 Open Internet Order, rejecting rules that required broadband providers to carry all traffic for edge providers (“anti-blocking”) and prevented providers from negotiating deals for prioritized carriage. TF’s Berin Szoka weighs in on the decision in Adweek:
In a complicated decision, the court dismissed the FCC’s net neutrality order but left the door open by affirming the FCC can regulate the Internet.
“The FCC may have lost today’s battle, but it just won the war over regulating the Internet,” said Berin Szoka, president of Tech Freedom. “Because the court recognized the FCC’s statutory authority … and left room for the FCC to try again by writing new rules that do not impose common carriage, the FCC can try again by writing a more antitrust-like rule. It’s hard to imagine why Wheeler wouldn’t immediately start a rulemaking to do just that.”
Read the full article here, and see our more in-depth reaction to the ruling.