Legal Niches

Net Neutrality a Dead Issue?

By pete_gallagher

Republican and Democrat members of Congress alike recently came out against allowing the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to reclassify broadband as a telephone service, which would give the FCC power to regulate it. Combined with a looming August recess for lawmakers, Supreme Court nominee hearings and November elections, net neutrality is now a withering issue that's far down on the list of just about all participants involved.

This merger of circumstances led the author of an eWeek column to term net neutrality as 'basically dead,' at least for the time being. Any bid by the FCC to reclassify broadband was termed 'political suicide,' meaning that that the organization would have to wait for Congress to new legislation can be implemented.

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Full post as published by GamePolitics.com on June 14, 2010 (boomark / email).