Re: Verizon sues FCC, says "net neutrality lite" rules illegal

On Thu, 20 Jan 2011 21:32:11 -0600, Rick
<fholbrook@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On 1/20/2011 7:58 PM, NotMe wrote:
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/01/verizon-sues-fcc-says-net-neutrality-lite-rules-illegal.ars

Verizon dropped a bomb on the FCC's net neutrality plans today, asking a
federal appeals court to "vacate, enjoin, and set aside" the signature
accomplishment of FCC Chair Julius Genachowski.

The company loves the open Internet, it says, just so long as no one can,
well, enforce that openness. Verizon's deputy general counsel said in a
statement today that "Verizon has long been committed to preserving an open
Internet and meeting the needs of our customers... [But] we are deeply
concerned by the FCC's assertion of broad authority for sweeping new
regulation of broadband networks and the Internet itself. We believe this
assertion of authority goes well beyond any authority provided by Congress,
and creates uncertainty for the communications industry, innovators,
investors and consumers."

The lead attorney on the case is Helgi Walker of major DC tech law firm
Wiley Rein. If the name sounds familiar, it should; Walker previously worked
on the Comcast lawsuit against the FCC, the one in which the cable giant
argued that even the FCC attempt to have it stop mucking about with P2P
transfers was illegal.

Comcast famously won that case in early 2010, throwing into confusion the
FCC's entire legal argument for net neutrality. Walker is now making the
same arguments to the court, but this time for Verizon.

"In Comcast," she points out, "this Court previously held that the FCC had
failed to justify its exercise of authority over the broadband Internet
access service at issue in that case." Now the FCC "again attempts to
justify its assertion of regulatory authority" with a new set of open
Internet rules approved on December 23-but Walker says they suffer from the
same lack of authority that doomed the FCC in the Comcast case.

Verizon wants the entire net neutrality order tossed by the appellate court.



It is about time some one did that the FCC is out of its mind.

Looks to me like Congress needs to step up and actually give the FCC
the powers that it thinks it already has. If the FCC can't stop what's
going on, then no one can.

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