If the best compromises make everyone unhappy, Federal
Communication Commission Chairman Tom Wheeler and his proposals for
regulating the Internet have lot going for them.
Everyone seems to hate the FCC’s latest trial balloon, floated by unnamed sources in the Wall Street Journal. The compromise proposal calls for splitting broadband
into two different services: a largely invisible one connecting
networks to one another, and the public one in which people pay to
connect their homes to the Internet. The FCC could then regulate the
back-end service under a stringent legal authority known as Title II
without applying the same legal standard to the consumer-facing
Internet. From a political perspective,
Wheeler’s hope is to appease
advocates who want the FCC to take broader authority over the entire
Internet while avoiding an additional round of lawsuits from Internet
providers.
The idea of splitting broadband into two services for
legal purposes stems from proposals by Mozilla and from an academic
named Tim Wu, both supporters of strong restrictions on Internet
providers’ rights to treat various kinds of traffic differently. But
the concept has been losing support, probably because backers now think
they can get a better deal.
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