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0 pointscletus8y ago0 comments

Actually Title II dates back to 1934.

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lumisota8y ago· 2 in thread

Sorry; I (and presumably your original comment) meant the designation of Internet service providers as common carriers under Title II. This designation was applied in 2015.

joshAg8y ago

ISPs were Title II until 2005 when Michael Powell, the Republican FCC chairman who was appointed by George Bush, reclassified the ISPs as Title 1 as part of the Republican plan to spur internet growth in the US via deregulation. (What we now call) Net neutrality violations followed soon after, but weren't widely reported until 2007 at which point people belatedly realized that Comcast had been violating net neutrality since 2005.

kgermino8y ago

Can you give example of those violations? (And possibly what resulted of them)

Honestly asking, my memory of new events from that era is somewhat hazy.

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cletusOP8y ago

Not sure why people are downvoting this but Title II goes back to the Communications Act of 1934 [1] [2] [3].

This may have been revised extensively in the Telecommunications Act of 1996 [4] and with subsequent policy changes around treatment of "telecommunications services", "information services" and "common carriers" but the point remains: Title II has a long history.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Net_neutrality_in_the_United_S...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communications_Act_of_1934#Str...

[3] https://transition.fcc.gov/Reports/1934new.pdf, pp35-136

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telecommunications_Act_of_1996...

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