Net Neutrality Groups Form 'Team Internet' to Continue Fight; Phoenix Center Hits IA Paper
Net neutrality "Day of Action" groups formed a "Team Internet" to fight the FCC's plan to "gut" its regulations and to counter congressional threats to an open internet, said a Free Press release Monday. Team Internet will employ a "distributed…
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organizing model" used by the 2016 presidential campaign of Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., to help individuals "self-organize and defend Net Neutrality at the local, state and federal levels," it said, citing organizers as Demand Progress, Fight for the Future and Free Press Action Fund. Meanwhile, the Phoenix Center said it found "numerous fatal flaws" in a paper by Internet Association Chief Economist Christopher Hooton on investment effects of the FCC's open internet regime. Hooton's paper uses "fabricated investment data" and investment projections instead of actual data, said a Phoenix release, which cited a paper by its own chief economist George Ford: If anything, Hooton’s analysis "is a further indictment of the FCC’s Net Neutrality policies ostensibly intended to spur increased broadband deployment via the Commission’s 'virtuous circle' theory of investment." The IA didn't comment.