GovHealthIT.com, an outlet covering the intersections between government action and the health and information technology industry, checked in with top tech policy experts on how Tuesday’s ruling may affect the world of mobile health IT. Berin Szoka talks about the ruling’s implications:
The court was eyeing FCC’s net neutrality non-discrimination provision as “an illegal imposition of common carriage because it doesn’t leave room for reasonable negotiations between ISPs and content and app developers,” said Berin Szoka, a communications attorney and president of the think tank TechFreedom.
The same court also upheld the FCC’s order mandating wireless data roaming in large part because the regulation allowed for commercially reasonable rates, Szoka said.
Others think the end of net neutrality may hinder innovation in the country’s Internet ecosystem — with some predicting the loss of “the Internet as we know it,” as Marvin Amori, an attorney who has represented Google, eBay, Automattic and others, wrote in Wired magazine.
But Szoka, whose organization is skeptical of the need for the net neutrality rules, thinks there is not much evidence to support that prediction. “You may not see too much change; you may see some commercially reasonable negotiations,” he wrote, “but it’s all going to be conducted with antitrust in the backdrop.”
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