Mozilla worries about FCC “reliance on Title I...
Mozilla worries about FCC “reliance on Title I for open Internet protections,” representatives of the developer of the Firefox Web browser said they told officials including Philip Verveer, senior counselor to Chairman Tom Wheeler, and FCC General Counsel Jonathan Sallet.…
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There’s a “significant risk that efforts to find a balance between strong rules that can meet the standards set by the Court of Appeals will fall short on both counts,” said an ex parte filing posted Thursday in docket 09-191 (http://bit.ly/1iyFkMd). The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit ruled in January against FCC net neutrality rules, and the agency recently issued an NPRM asking about new rules. Mozilla said it worries an approach under Title I of the Communications Act runs the risk of “failing to protect the open Internet while also being overturned on review.” The company has made a net neutrality proposal (CD May 8 p25) for remote delivery services to be subject to Title II common-carrier rules instead of Title I information services rules, which it said it discussed during the lobbying meeting.