FCC posts its 400-page net neutrality order

[Omaha Steve]

Source: USA Today

Mike Snider

Get your reading glasses out and put a fresh pot of coffee on, the Federal Communications Commission just posted a potential bestseller: the net neutrality rules.

Simply entitled Open Internet FCC-15-24A1, the order runs 400 pages. The initial rush to get it from the FCC web site this morning led to some getting an error from the site. But downloading quickly smoothed out by 10 a.m.

The commission voted 3-2 last month to approve the rules to protect an open Internet, or enforce net neutrality, as the principle is often called. The goal of the rules is to establish the FCC's authority to ensure that the Net is equally available to all types of legal content generators.

Internet service providers (ISPs), mostly large cable or telephone companies, are prohibted from blocking or slowing some content and from "paid prioritization" to deliver some content via faster lanes for payment.


Read more: http://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2015/03/12/fcc-open-internet-net-neutrality-order/70202668/

[PoliticAverse]

1. You can find the actual text on the FCC page here...

http://www.fcc.gov/document/fcc-releases-open-internet-order

.pdf version: https://apps.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/FCC-15-24A1.pdf
.doc version: https://apps.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/FCC-15-24A1.doc

[groundloop]

2. You'd think they could do this in a lot less than 400 pages

I can already hear my right wing acquaintances using the size of this document to bitch about 'big gubimint'.

[drm604]

3. If it was 2 pages long they'd find some excuse to complain about that.

"Too vague."
"Not enough detail."

They don't care about the size of the document, just that it was issued under Obama. Tell me I'm wrong.

[d_legendary1]

4. That's cuz reading is a problem for people who's mental capacity

is limited to bumper sticker language. You know them as Fixed News viewers.

[geek tragedy]

6. the telecommunications sector is quite complex nt

[onenote]

8. Well, given that the two republicans wrote over 85 pages in dissent

its not that surprising.

The text of the revised rules is 8 pages long.
The order accompanying the rules, which is like a court's opinion -- it works through the facts and the law, describing the arguments on each side, citing comments etc., which it is required to do by the Administrative Procedure Act, is 282 pages long. The rest of the 400 pages are the concurring statements of the three Democrats and some required Regulatory Flexibility Act analysis etc.

[Hekate]

5. Kick

[BumRushDaShow]

7. Some DUers claimed that this would never happen.

Thanks Obama!