Federal Court Strikes Down the FCC’s ‘Net Neutrality’ Authority

From AOL.COM:

In a dramatic ruling that’s sending shock waves from Washington, D.C., to Silicon Valley, a federal appeals court ruled Tuesday that the Federal Communications Commission lacks the legal authority to enforce its “network neutrality” principles.

Although this ruling specifically involves a 2008 FCC sanction against Comcast (CMCSA), the nation’s largest cable company, the decision effectively sets a precedent that severely limits the FCC’s power to regulate broadband providers’ “network management” practices…

Those principles hold that net neutrality should require Internet providers to treat all legal Web traffic equally and not discriminate against content that originates with a provider’s rivals…

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