Both Sides Make Closing Net Neutrality Arguments as Decision Looms

Several tech industry associations, including the Computer & Communications Industry Association and startup group Engine, filed a joint letter asking Federal Communications Commission officials to use a “light-touch policy framework” when writing new rules to prohibit discriminatory delivery of Internet traffic. One thing that has changed in the ongoing, eye-glazing debate over legal justifications is that both sides now appear to assume that FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler will propose reversing the FCC’s decade-old decision to deregulate Internet lines. Notably, the conversation has now shifted from whether to re-regulate Internet lines under Title II of the Communications Act to how the agency could do it. Internet providers are urging the FCC to use few if any sections of Title II, while net neutrality proponents are pressing the agency to rely on a handful of key sections.