Michael Copps:
“Let’s be clear ... Any proposal to allow fast lanes for the
few is emphatically not net neutrality. The clear common-sense
prerequisite for an Open Internet is Title II reclassification,
guaranteeing the agency’s authority to protect consumers and ensure free
speech online.
“The FCC should conduct public hearings on the matter outside of
Washington, DC, so it can hear from the people who will have to live
with the decisions it makes at this pivotal moment for the future of the
Internet. It’s no exaggeration to say that every American has a stake
in its deliberations.
“The presumptions in this item appear little different from what was
reported about the initial draft. It opens a door to Title II
classification but still tilts in favor of the weak legal framework that
so far has gotten us nowhere. It opens a door to wireless being covered
by net neutrality, but still retains the scope of the earlier rules
which excluded wireless.
“And it still relies too much on porous metrics — like what is
‘commercially reasonable’ — that ISPs [Internet Service Providers] can
drive an 18-wheeler through. Today should have been about adopting
strong safeguards, enforceable rules, and sound legal footings. It
wasn’t. So it will take lots of citizens speaking out now to tell the
FCC it is headed in the wrong direction.”
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