The FCC's Restoring Internet Freedom Order is Ignorant of and Conflicts With the Internet's Architecture
Monday, January 7, 2019
January 2019
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The FCC's Restoring Internet Freedom Order is Ignorant of and Conflicts With the Internet's Architecture
The Federal Communications Commission’s 2018 Restoring Internet Freedom (RIF) Order reclassified broadband Internet access service from a telecommunications service to an information service, largely on the basis of an interpretation of broadband service that is fundamentally incorrect. This reclassification gave the FCC the license not only to repeal the 2015 net neutrality rules, but to abdicate its role overseeing the broadband market.