The FCC is taking the right course on...
The FCC is taking the right course on net neutrality, House Communications Subcommittee ranking member Anna Eshoo, D-Calif., said over the weekend on Press: Here, an NBC news show broadcast in San Francisco and her home district in Silicon Valley.…
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She emphasized the importance of FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler’s not appealing the D.C. Circuit appeals court decision that vacated FCC net neutrality rules as well as Wheeler’s decision to focus on barriers to municipal broadband networks. But “I don’t think an ISP and I don’t think a wireless service should be able to discriminate or block content,” Eshoo said. “Now we haven’t gotten to wireless yet.” The FCC’s vacated net neutrality rules, first issued as part of a 2010 order, did not apply to wireless service.