FCC approves plan to consider paid priority on Internet (updated headline)

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3. It’s Not Complicated: To Maintain a Truly Free and Open Internet, Maintain True Net Neutrality

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Wheeler has felt the heat. His revised approach embraces some of the language of critics, and expresses an openness to debate about what a growing consensus among responsible members of Congress and advocacy groups says is the right response to the issue: reclassification of Internet providers as “telecommunications services” that can be regulated in the public interest.

But Wheeler has not moved as far as the official pronouncements might suggest. Indeed, according to The Wall Street Journal, despite the talk of “tweaks” to the initial plan, the chairman “is sticking to the same basic approach.”

An analysis from Matt Wood, a public interest lawyer who formerly worked with the Media Access Project and now works with the media reform group Free Press, concludes that the revisions proposed by Wheeler “fall far short.” Indeed, argues Wood, “Unless the chairman reverses his fundamentally failed approach, we won’t have real Net Neutrality—and we will have rampant discrimination online.”


http://www.thenation.com/blog/179864/its-not-complicated-maintain-truly-free-and-open-internet-maintain-true-net-neutrality