Why Won’t This Page Load? Net Neutrality Hits the DC Circuit

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit heard oral arguments today determining whether the FCC was wrong to eliminate its own rules protecting an open internet. In a lively panel, Judges Millet, Wilkens, and Williams jumped in with questions less than a minute into the case, and kept all six advocates at the podium for wide ranging questions taking more than five hours to complete – almost double the allotted time for this case. As quick refresher, we have been here before. Most recently, the D.C. Circuit reviewed the 2015 Open Internet Order, which was the culmination of a decade of proceedings designed to enact reasonable limits on the ability of BIAS (broadband internet access service) providers to interfere with their customers’ free and open access to the internet. The 2015 Order barred throttling, blocking, pay-to-play practices, and other methods of ISPs’ interference between consumers and the online sites and services they want to reach. In…

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