NAACP on Net Neutrality: FCC Should Use Sec. 706

The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)and Communications Workers of America want the Federal Communications Commission to use its existing Sec. 706 authority to justify new open Internet regulations that essentially recreate the success of the old ones.

In comments to the FCC on its proposed new network neutrality rules, they said the FCC should follow the advice of the DC court.

"The Court affirmed the FCC’s legal authority to ground its Open Internet rules in Section 706 of the Telecommunications Act, and suggested that no blocking and anti-discrimination rules based on a 'commercially reasonable' standard would be legally sound. The Commission should take this approach to protect a free and Open Internet," they said.