A November 2014 rally at the White House. Public input played an important role in the net neutrality debate. (credit: Stephen Melkisethian)
The broadband industry has lost its lawsuit attempting to overturn the Federal Communications Commission’s net neutrality rules and the related reclassification of Internet service providers as common carriers.
“We deny the petitions for review,” said a decision released today by the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit (full text).
ISPs’ First Amendment claims (among others) were rejected. “Because a broadband provider does not—and is not understood by users to—“speak” when providing neutral access to internet content as common carriage, the First Amendment poses no bar to the open internet rules,” the judges wrote.
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Source: Ars Technica – Net neutrality and Title II win in court, as ISPs lose case against FCC