Thread: Net Neutrality Update

Net Neutrality Update

By Warner Todd Huston
Tuesday, September 28, 2010

If you are as worried as I am about the left’s effort to force ever larger amounts of big government onto our lives, then you should be looking into the issue of Net Neutrality. To that end a few times a week I’ll be posting some links and info about Net Neutrality to help you all get your feet wet on this important issue.

Here are just a few of the latest articles on Net Neutrality for your information:

Draft of Waxman’s net-neutrality legislation leaked amid talks
The Hill, by Sara Jerome http://thehill.com/blogs/hillicon-valle ... ality-bill

Here is a draft copy http://thehill.com/images/stories/white ... work-1.pdf of the net-neutrality proposal under development by House Energy and Commerce Chairman Henry Waxman (Calif.), according to an industry source. This version was under consideration as of the weekend. Two non-Hill sources said Monday afternoon they believe the bill will come on Monday or Tuesday.

Rough week marks end of FCC Chairman’s Summer in Hell The Daily Caller, by Mike Riggs http://dailycaller.com/2010/09/24/rough ... r-in-hell/

Among the Washington power set’s favorite past-times is betting on an agency head’s exit date. After all, it’s usually a question of when — not if — he or she is going to burn out, throw up his or her hands in frustration, and get hounded out of the gig. The betting tables are especially hot after a long week for FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski.

An Open Letter to the Men and Women of the FCC The Washington Examiner, by Seton Motley http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opini ... 65578.html

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Despite that the FCC is lost this small skirmish to take over the Internet, the battle still looms.

Newest House Net Neutrality Bill Cuts FCC Out of Internet Authority

By Warner Todd Huston
Tuesday, September 28, 2010

It looks like House Energy and Commerce Chairman Henry Waxman, (D-Calif) is so desperate to get a Net Neutrality bill out of the House before the recess that he was willing to strip the FCC authority from it this week. For months he Federal Communications Commission has been angling to take power over the Internet and left-wing Net Neutrality supporters were keen to let them but with the clock running down Chairman Waxman took a different path.

Tech Dose Daily reports that the bill would prohibit the FCC from reclassifying broadband under title II of the Communications Act. But there is a two-year sunset clause that would open up the FCC to reapply for this undue power at a later date. http://techdailydose.nationaljournal.co ... ity-on.php

Waxman apparently hopes to get this version of the bill passed out of committee so that the House can pass the bill before the recess. He hopes then that the Senate can tackle its part of the bill during the upcoming lame duck session.

Some are stunned that Waxman would shop such a bill.

No FCC rulemaking authority on the bill “is a huge victory for the carriers,â€