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OPLIN 4cast #540: About net neutrality
May 3rd, 2017

[image: net neutrality] So let’s talk about this net neutrality thing. What
effects, if any, will new FCC Chairman Ajit Pai’s proposed dismantling
<https://www.fcc.gov/news-events/events/2017/04/chairman-pai-speech-future-internet-regulation>
of former Chairman Tom Wheeler’s net neutrality rules have on libraries? In
the past few years, communication between the Republican and the Democratic
members of the Federal Communications Commission has broken down and
acrimony has built to the point that almost every FCC decision has been
taken along strict party lines, with the biggest being the Open Internet
Order
<http://www.wcsr.com/Insights/Alerts/2015/May/Highlights-of-the-2015-Open-Internet-Order>
that was finally upheld by the courts last June. It’s no surprise, then,
that Republican Pai is reversing Democrat Wheeler’s work. But again, what
does that mean to us? As yet, there’s no clear answer.
- FCC Chairman Ajit Pai on why he’s rejecting net neutrality rules
<http://reason.com/reasontv/2017/04/26/fcc-ajit-pai-net-neutrality-internet>
(Reason | Nick Gillespie & Mark McDaniel)  “Long a critic of Title II
regulations, which were invoked after the FCC lost two court battles to
regulate the Internet, Pai describes them as ‘a panoply of heavy-handed
economic regulations that were developed in the Great Depression to handle
Ma Bell.’ Scrapping these rules, Pai told Reason’s Nick Gillespie, won’t
harm consumers or the public interest because there was no reason for them
in the first place. The rationales were mere ‘phantoms that were conjured
up by people who wanted the FCC for political reasons to overregulate the
internet,’ Pai told Gillespie.”
- The ‘fix’ for net neutrality that consumers don’t need
<https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/28/opinion/the-fix-for-net-neutrality-that-consumers-dont-need.html>
(The New York Times | Tim Wu)  “While killing net neutrality may be rolled
out with specious promises of ‘free video,’ there is nothing here for
ordinary people. Lowering prices is just not something that cable or phone
companies will do except under pressure. Instead, the repeal of net
neutrality will simply create ways for cable and phone companies to tax the
web and increase your broadband bill.”
- What killing net neutrality means for the internet
<http://thehill.com/policy/technology/331012-what-killing-net-neutrality-means-for-the-internet>
(The Hill | Ali Breland)  “Data-free apps have been popular with consumers,
but net neutrality supporters worry they allow broadband providers to give
preference to content providers they have deals with. Former FCC Chairman
Tom Wheeler also argued that free data arrangements make it harder for
smaller content creators to get attention. If net neutrality goes,
consumers could see more telecommunications companies offer such plans.”
- Another debate about net neutrality in America
<http://www.economist.com/news/business/21721245-new-head-fcc-will-roll-back-obama-era-rules-another-debate-about-net-neutrality>
(The Economist)  “Mr Pai does support general rules to protect net
neutrality. Like other advocates of the principle, he credits these for the
internet’s innovativeness. But he believes that light-touch regulation is
enough. Once ISPs are no longer classed as telecommunications services he
wants them to commit to net neutrality in their terms of service. This
commitment would (in theory) be enforced by a different agency, the Federal
Trade Commission (FTC), which has the authority to go after firms if they
fail to live up to promises they make to customers.”

*Articles from Ohio Web Library <http://ohioweblibrary.org>:*

   - Net neutrality and the FCC’S 2015 Open Internet Order.
   <http://search.ebscohost.com.proxy.oplin.org/login.aspx?direct=true&db=cph&AN=120485590>
   (*Berkeley Technology Law Journal*, 2016 Special Issue, p.905-929 |
   Simone A. Friedlander)
   - Net neutrality and the fight for social justice.
   <http://search.ebscohost.com.proxy.oplin.org/login.aspx?direct=true&db=lfh&AN=108556862>
   (*Tikkun*, Summer 2015, p.13-16 | Sam Ross-Brown)
   - The tangled web of net neutrality and regulation.
   <http://search.ebscohost.com.proxy.oplin.org/login.aspx?direct=true&db=buh&AN=122436942>
   (*Harvard Business Review Digital Articles*, 3/31/2017, p.2-7 | Larry
   Downes)

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