Multiple parties questioned the FCC’s authority to regulate the Internet, in amicus...
Multiple parties questioned the FCC’s authority to regulate the Internet, in amicus briefs filed at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, scheduled to hear Verizon v. FCC. The net neutrality order “violates broadband providers’ First…
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Amendment rights” by “denying Internet service providers their editorial discretion and by compelling them to convey content providers’ messages with which they may disagree,” said TechFreedom, the Cato Institute, Competitive Enterprise Institute and Free State Foundation(http://xrl.us/bnxgf3). It “violates the Fifth Amendment’s prohibition on takings without just compensation,” they said. The National Association of Manufacturers said “the FCC’s central claim to legal authority relies on assertions regarding the linkage between net neutrality requirements and broadband deployment that were comprehensively refuted by record evidence that the Order simply refused to address” (http://xrl.us/bnxgeo). The court should vacate the 2010 order, NAM said. Broadband regulation could hurt manufacturers, and Congress didn’t intend to authorize the FCC to regulate broadband, the association said.