Rep. Cliff Stearns, R-Fla., plans to offer a net neutrality bill...
Rep. Cliff Stearns, R-Fla., plans to offer a net neutrality bill “this week,” he told us in a written statement Monday. A draft of the House Communications Subcommittee ranking member’s bill, circulated among industry lobbyists Monday, would bar the FCC…
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from regulating “information services or Internet access services absent a market failure.” That’s slightly different from a previous draft (CD Feb 25 p11), which would only have prevented the commission from regulating information services. FCC Chairman Genachowski last week proposed reclassifying Internet access services under Title II of the Communications Act. As in the previous draft, before regulating, the FCC would have to send Congress a report showing evidence of a market failure causing “specific, identified harm to consumers by preventing a substantial number of consumers nationwide from accessing a substantial amount of lawful Internet content, applications, and services of their choice on a continuing basis.”