More than 100 lawmakers file in support of net neutrality legal challenge

More than 100 US senators and Members of Congress signed an amicus brief in support of a legal challenge to the FCC’s elimination of net neutrality rules. The filing states that the members of Congress have “unique knowledge regarding an issue at the core of this case: whether broadband access to the Internet is properly classified as a ‘telecommunications service’ or as an ‘information service,’ as those terms are employed in the 1996 Act.”

This federal lawsuit is one of many responses across the country to the Republican majority FCC eliminating bright-line rules to prevent blocking, throttling, and favoritism on the Internet.

The Communications Workers of America supports three bright-line, common sense rules – no blocking, no throttling, and no favorable treatment of some websites and applications over others – to protect a free and open Internet. CWA supports a CRA resolution as a first step toward federal legislation.

Links:

Brief Amici Curiae of Members of Congress (US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, Aug. 27, 2018)

CWA: FCC vote will damage free and open Internet (Speed Matters, Dec. 14, 2017)