I've read multiple articles that the original rules were not clear. Of course that is subjective.
Maybe instead of reading articles about them, you could check out the actual rules that I posted. They're not too bad.
Putting government officials with a track record of abusing public trust and very little experience in the actual field in charge of monitoring and making up rules is also not a great solution.
This is quite a claim. Are you able to provide a list of government officials who have abused public trust for net neutrality? I was able to provide one pretty easily for the companies that did so.
These are also not elected officials, so there is less accountability to the public.
Right, these are appointed officials . . . who are appointed by people who are elected to the public. They cannot make descisions without a full and public accounting being made. As opposed to private companies making their own decisions with no oversight. This is not really comparable from a transparency point of view.
You're going to have a human making decisions somewhere. It depends where you have more trust, in your government or in a company.
You are drawing false equivalencies. It depends where you have more trust, in clearly outlined rules that were established by the government for all to follow . . . or in ad hoc rules determined by the companies who are supposed to adhere to them, without any clear mechanism of enforcement.
List of states suing the FCC over this (so far):
Washington
New York
California
Illinois
Oregon
Massachusetts
Iowa
Kentucky
Delaware
Pennsylvania
DC
New Mexico
Interesting. What grounds are they basing the suit on?
There are a variety of concerns . . .
- The new FCC's redefinition of ISPs from a public utility, “information services” which is inaccurate (according to the judgement of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit in 2016)
- The abdication and handoff of the FCC's mandated responsibility to another agency (the FTC) that has neither the resources nor manpower to take it over
- The FCC is pre-emptively preventing state and local governments from enacting their own net neutrality rules, which is probably outside of the powers of the FCC.
- that the information about millions of fake pro-net neutrality comments (many of which were submitted from Russian IPs) which the FCC was supposed to be reviewing before making their decision was hidden from the public, and the FCC under Pai actively blocked investigation into the matter.