Free State Foundation Meets O'Rielly on Net Neutrality Rules
Free State Foundation President Randolph May said he met with FCC Commissioner Mike O’Rielly and an aide to Commissioner Brendan Carr on the group’s recommended changes to net neutrality rules. Broadband internet access services are Title I “information services” and…
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not Title II “telecommunications services … under the text and structure of the Communications Act,” FSF said in docket 17-108 Monday. “Therefore, the FCC does not possess authority to regulate broadband [ISPs] as common carriers and impose harmful public utility regulation.” FSF said the FCC “lacks authority” under Section 706 “to regulate broadband ISPs’ practices.”