Online Learning Update

July 11, 2018

Unpacked: Repeal of Open Internet Rule enables monopoly networks

Filed under: Online Learning News — Ray Schroeder @ 12:02 am

by Tom Wheeler, Brookings

*Internet services will likely not jump on this quickly and begin to extract the advantages of this repeal, but they will begin to discriminate in subtle way

*There is a pending court appeal that challenges the FCC’s ability to repeal Net Neutrality

*The Congressional Review Act, which has already passed the Senate, would repeal the FCC’s decision

*To understand what impact the repeal of the Open Internet rule might have, you have to understand why it was put in place to begin with

*The underlying concept of networks in America, all the way back to the telegraph, has been that there needs to be first-come, first-serve, non-discriminatory access

*The reason why we have this rule is because of monopoly networks

 

Unpacked: Repeal of Open Internet Rule enables monopoly networks

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