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Net neutrality

Network neutrality, often referred to as net neutrality, is the principle that Internet service providers (ISPs) must treat all Internet communications equally, offering users and online content providers consistent rates irrespective of content, website, platform, application, type of equipment, source address, destination address, or method of communication (i.e., without price discrimination).[4][5]

Portuguese Internet service provider MEO offers smartphone contracts with monthly data limits, and sells additional monthly packages for particular data services.[1] Critics of EU net neutrality rules say loopholes allow data for different services to be sold under zero rating exceptions to data limits.[2] Consumer advocates of net neutrality have cited this pricing model as an illustration of Internet access with weak net neutrality protection.[3]

Supporters of net neutrality argue that it prevents ISPs from filtering Internet content without a court order, fosters freedom of speech and democratic participation, promotes competition and innovation, prevents dubious services, maintains the end-to-end principle, and that users would be intolerant of slow-loading websites. Opponents of net neutrality argue that it reduces investment, deters competition, increases taxes, imposes unnecessary regulations, prevents the Internet from being accessible to poor people, prevents Internet traffic from being allocated to the most needed users, that large ISPs already have a performance advantage over smaller providers, and that there is already significant competition among ISPs with few competitive issues.

Etymology edit

The term was coined by Columbia University media law professor Tim Wu in 2003 as an extension of the longstanding concept of a common carrier which was used to describe the role of telephone systems.[6][7][8][9]

Regulatory considerations edit

Net neutrality regulations may be referred to as uncommon carrier regulations.[10][11] Net neutrality does not block all abilities that ISPs have to impact their customers' services. Opt-in and opt-out services exist on the end user side, and filtering can be done locally, as in the filtering of sensitive material for minors.[12]

Research suggests that a combination of policy instruments can help realize the range of valued political and economic objectives central to the network neutrality debate.[13] Combined with public opinion, this has led some governments to regulate broadband Internet services as a public utility, similar to the way electricity, gas, and the water supply are regulated, along with limiting providers and regulating the options those providers can offer.[14]

Proponents of net neutrality, which include computer science experts, consumer advocates, human rights organizations, and Internet content providers, assert that net neutrality helps to provide freedom of information exchange, promotes competition and innovation for Internet services, and upholds standardization of Internet data transmission which was essential for its growth.[citation needed] Opponents of net neutrality, which include ISPs, computer hardware manufacturers, economists, technologists and telecommunications equipment manufacturers, argue that net neutrality requirements would reduce their incentive to build out the Internet and reduce competition in the marketplace, and may raise their operating costs, which they would have to pass along to their users.[citation needed]

Regional considerations edit

Net neutrality is administered on a national or regional basis, though much of the world's focus has been on the conflict over net neutrality in the United States. Net neutrality in the US has been a topic since the early 1990s, as they were one of the world leaders in providing online services. However, they face the same problems as the rest of the world.

In 2019, the Save the Internet Act to "guarantee broadband internet users equal access to online content" was passed by the US House of Representatives[15] but not by the US Senate. Finding an appropriate solution by creating more regulations for ISPs has been a major work in progress. Net neutrality rules were repealed in the US in 2017 during the Trump administration and subsequent appeals have upheld the ruling.[16]

Definition and related principles edit

Internet neutrality edit

Network neutrality is the principle that all Internet traffic should be treated equally.[17] Internet traffic includes all of the different messages, files, and data sent over the Internet, including emails, digital audio files, digital video files, and torrents. According to Columbia Law School professor Tim Wu, a public information network will be most useful if all content, websites, and platforms (e.g., mobile devices, video game consoles, etc.) are treated equally,[18] which is the principle of network neutrality.

Net neutrality is the principle that an ISP has to provide access to all sites, content, and applications at the same speed, under the same conditions, without blocking or giving preference to any content. Under net neutrality, whether a user connects to Netflix, Internet Archive, or a blog, their ISP must treat them all the same.[19] Without net neutrality, an ISP can decide what information users are exposed to and charge content providers to stream their content.[20]

Open Internet edit

Under an open Internet system, the full resources of the Internet and means to operate on it should be easily accessible to all individuals, companies, and organizations.[21] Applicable concepts include: net neutrality, open standards, transparency, lack of Internet censorship, and low barriers to entry. The concept of the open Internet is sometimes expressed as an expectation of decentralized technological power, and is seen by some observers as closely related to open-source software, a type of software program whose maker allows users access to the code that runs the program, so that users can improve the software or fix bugs.[22] Proponents of net neutrality see neutrality as an important component of an open Internet, wherein policies such as equal treatment of data and open web standards allow those using the Internet to easily communicate, and conduct business and activities without interference from a third party.[23]

In contrast, a closed Internet refers to the opposite situation, wherein established persons, corporations, or governments favor certain uses, restrict access to necessary web standards, artificially degrade some services, or explicitly filter out content. Some countries such as Thailand block certain websites or types of sites, and monitor and/or censor Internet use using Internet police, a specialized type of law enforcement, or secret police.[24] Other countries such as Russia,[25] China,[26] and North Korea[27] also use similar tactics to Thailand in order to control the variety of internet media within their respective countries. In comparison to the United States or Canada for example, these countries have far more restrictive internet service providers. This approach is reminiscent of a Closed Platform system, as both ideas are highly similar.[28] These systems all serve to hinder access to a wide variety of internet service, which is a stark contrast to the idea of an open Internet system.

Dumb pipe edit

The term dumb pipe was coined in the early 1990s and refers to water pipes used in a city water supply system. In theory, these pipes provide a steady and reliable source of water to every household without discrimination. In other words, it connects the user with the source without any intelligence or decrement. Similarly, a dumb network is a network with little or no control or management of its use patterns.[29]

In a dumb network, the endpoints are thought to be where the intelligence lies, and as such, proponents argue that the network should leave the management and operation of communications and data transfer to the end users, not a government bureau or Internet company.[citation needed] In 2013, the software company MetroTech Net, Inc. (MTN) coined the term dumb wave, which is the 2010s-era application of the dumb pipe concept to the ubiquitous wireless network.[citation needed]

Experts in the high-technology field will often compare the dumb pipe concept with intelligent networks –also known as smart pipes—and debate which one is best applied to a certain portion of Internet policy. These conversations usually refer to these two concepts as being analogous to the concepts of open and closed Internet respectively.[30] As such, certain models have been made that aim to outline four layers of the Internet with the understanding of the dumb pipe theory:

  • Content Layer: Contains services such as communication as well as entertainment videos and music.
  • Applications Layer: Contains services such as e-mail and web browsers.
  • Logical Layer (also called the Code Layer): Contains various Internet protocols such as TCP/IP and HTTP.
  • Physical Layer: Consists of services that provide all others such as cable or wireless connections.[30]

End-to-end principle edit

The end-to-end principle of network design was first laid out in the 1981 paper End-to-end arguments in system design by Jerome H. Saltzer, David P. Reed, and David D. Clark. The principle states that, whenever possible, communications protocol operations should be defined to occur at the end-points of a communications system, or as close as possible to the resources being controlled. According to the end-to-end principle, protocol features are only justified in the lower layers of a system if they are a performance optimization; hence, TCP retransmission for reliability is still justified, but efforts to improve TCP reliability should stop after peak performance has been reached.

They argued that reliable systems tend to require end-to-end processing to operate correctly, in addition to any processing in the intermediate system. They pointed out that most features in the lowest level of a communications system have costs for all higher-layer clients, even if those clients do not need the features, and are redundant if the clients have to re-implement the features on an end-to-end basis. This leads to the model of a minimal dumb network with smart terminals, a completely different model from the previous paradigm of the smart network with dumb terminals. Because the end-to-end principle is one of the central design principles of the Internet, and because the practical means for implementing data discrimination violate the end-to-end principle, the principle often enters discussions about net neutrality. The end-to-end principle is closely related and sometimes seen as a direct precursor to the principle of net neutrality.[31]

Traffic shaping edit

Traffic shaping is the control of computer network traffic to optimize or guarantee performance, improve latency (i.e., decrease Internet response times), and/or increase usable bandwidth by delaying packets that meet certain criteria.[32] In practice, traffic shaping is often accomplished by throttling certain types of data, such as streaming video or P2P file sharing. More specifically, traffic shaping is any action on a set of packets (often called a stream or a flow) that imposes additional delay on those packets such that they conform to some predetermined constraint (a contract or traffic profile).[33] Traffic shaping provides a means to control the volume of traffic being sent into a network in a specified period (bandwidth throttling), or the maximum rate at which the traffic is sent (rate limiting), or more complex criteria such as generic cell rate algorithm.

Over-provisioning edit

If the core of a network has more bandwidth than is permitted to enter at the edges, then good quality of service (QoS) can be obtained without policing or throttling. For example, telephone networks employ admission control to limit user demand on the network core by refusing to create a circuit for the requested connection. During a natural disaster, for example, most users will get a circuit busy signal if they try to make a call, as the phone company prioritizes emergency calls. Over-provisioning is a form of statistical multiplexing that makes liberal estimates of peak user demand. Over-provisioning is used in private networks such as WebEx and the Internet 2 Abilene Network, an American university network. David Isenberg believes that continued over-provisioning will always provide more capacity for less expense than QoS and deep packet inspection technologies.[34][35]

Device neutrality edit

Device neutrality is the principle that in order to ensure freedom of choice and freedom of communication for users of network-connected devices, it is not sufficient that network operators do not interfere with their choices and activities; users must be free to use applications of their choice and hence remove the applications they do not want.

It can be defined with the following analogy to network neutrality:

Network neutrality: Neutrality principles are codified ex-ante, and a judicial route is available for redress. Connectivity providers can implement traffic management, but the rules must be the same for everyone. The antitrust alternative takes more time and offers few precedents.

Device neutrality: Similarly, neutrality principles are codified ex-ante and avail judicial remedies. Device vendors can establish policies for managing applications, but they, too, must be applied neutrally.

An unsuccessful bill to enforce network and device neutrality was introduced in Italy in 2015 by Hon. Stefano Quintarelli.[36] The law gained formal support at the European Commission[37] by BEUC, the European Consumer Organisation, the Electronic Frontier Foundation and the Hermes Center for Transparency and digital human rights. A similar law was enacted in South Korea.[38] Similar principles were proposed in China.[39] The French telecoms regulator ARCEP has called for the introduction of Device Neutrality in Europe.[40]

The principle has been incorporated in the EU's Digital Markets Act (Articles 6.3 an 6.4[41])

Invoicing and tariffs edit

ISPs have the possibility to choose a balance between a base subscription tariff (monthly bundle) and a pay-per-use (pay by MB metering). The ISP sets an upper monthly threshold on data usage, just to be able to provide an equal share amongst customers, and a fair use guarantee. This is generally not considered to be an intrusion, but rather allows for a commercial positioning amongst ISPs.

Alternative networks edit

Some networks like public Wi-Fi can take traffic away from conventional fixed or mobile network providers. This can significantly change the end-to-end behaviour (performance, tariffs).

Issues edit

Discrimination by protocol edit

Discrimination by protocol is the favouring or blocking of information based on aspects of the communications protocol that the computers are using to communicate.[42] In the US, a complaint was filed with the Federal Communications Commission against the cable provider Comcast alleging they had illegally inhibited users of its high-speed Internet service from using the popular file-sharing software BitTorrent.[43] Comcast admitted no wrongdoing[44] in its proposed settlement of up to US$16 dollars per share in December 2009.[45] However, a U.S. appeals court ruled in April 2010 that the FCC exceeded its authority when it sanctioned Comcast in 2008 for deliberately preventing some subscribers from using peer-to-peer file-sharing services to download large files. However, the FCC spokeswoman Jen Howard responded, "the court in no way disagreed with the importance of preserving a free and open Internet, nor did it close the door to other methods for achieving this important end."[46] Despite the ruling in favour of Comcast, a study by Measurement Lab in October 2011 verified that Comcast had virtually stopped its BitTorrent throttling practices.[47][48]

Discrimination by Internet Protocol (IP) Address edit

During the 1990s, creating a non-neutral Internet was technically infeasible.[49] Originally developed to filter harmful malware, the Internet security company NetScreen Technologies released network firewalls in 2003 with so-called deep packet inspection capabilities. Deep packet inspection helped make real-time discrimination between different kinds of data possible,[50] and is often used for Internet censorship. In a practice called zero-rating, companies will not invoice data use related to certain IP addresses, favoring use of those services. Examples include Facebook Zero,[51] Wikipedia Zero, and Google Free Zone. These zero-rating practices are especially common in the developing world.[52]

Sometimes Internet Service Providers (ISPs) will charge some companies, but not others, for the traffic they cause on the ISP's network. French telecom operator Orange, complaining that traffic from YouTube and other Google sites consist of roughly 50% of total traffic on the Orange network, made a deal with Google, in which they charge Google for the traffic incurred on the Orange network.[53] Some also thought that Orange's rival ISP Free throttled YouTube traffic. However, an investigation done by the French telecommunications regulatory body revealed that the network was simply congested during peak hours.[54]

Aside from the zero-rating method, ISPs will also use certain strategies to reduce the costs of pricing plans such as the use of sponsored data. In a scenario where a sponsored data plan is used, a third party will step in and pay for all the content that it (or the carrier or consumer) does not want around. This is generally used as a way for ISPs to remove out-of-pocket costs from subscribers.[55]

One of the criticisms regarding discrimination is that the system set up by ISPs for this purpose is capable of not only discriminating but also scrutinizing full-packet content of communications. For instance, deep packet inspection technology installs intelligence within the lower layers in the work to discover and identify the source, type, and destination of packets, revealing information about packets traveling in the physical infrastructure so it can dictate the quality of transport such packets will receive.[56] This is seen as an architecture of surveillance, one that can be shared with intelligence agencies, copyrighted content owners, and civil litigants, exposing the users' secrets in the process.[57]

Favoring private networks edit

Proponents of net neutrality argue that without new regulations, Internet service providers would be able to profit from and favor their own private protocols over others. The argument for net neutrality is that ISPs would be able to pick and choose who they offer a greater bandwidth to. If one website or company is able to afford more, they will go with them. This especially stifles private up-and-coming businesses.

ISPs are able to encourage the use of specific services by using private networks to discriminate what data is counted against bandwidth caps. For example, Comcast struck a deal with Microsoft that allowed users to stream television through the Xfinity app on their Xbox 360s without it affecting their bandwidth limit. However, utilizing other television streaming apps, such as Netflix, HBO Go, and Hulu, counted towards the limit. Comcast denied that this infringed on net neutrality principles since "it runs its Xfinity for Xbox service on its own, private Internet protocol network."[58]

In 2009, when AT&T was bundling iPhone 3G with its 3G network service, the company placed restrictions on which iPhone applications could run on its network.[59] According to proponents of net neutrality, this capitalization on which content producers ISPs can favor would ultimately lead to fragmentation, where some ISPs would have certain content that is not necessarily present in the networks offered by other ISPs.

The danger behind fragmentation, as viewed by proponents of net neutrality, is the concept that there could be multiple Internets, where some ISPs offer exclusive internet applications or services or make it more difficult to gain access to internet content that may be more easily viewable through other internet service providers. An example of a fragmented service would be television, where some cable providers offer exclusive media from certain content providers.[60] However, in theory, allowing ISPs to favor certain content and private networks would overall improve internet services since they would be able to recognize packets of information that are more time-sensitive and prioritize that over packets that are not as sensitive to latency. The issue, as explained by Robin S. Lee and Tim Wu, is that there are literally too many ISPs and internet content providers around the world to reach an agreement on how to standardize that prioritization.

A proposed solution would be to allow all online content to be accessed and transferred freely, while simultaneously offering a fast lane for a preferred service that does not discriminate on the content provider.[60]

Peering discrimination edit

There is disagreement about whether peering is a net neutrality issue.[61] In the first quarter of 2014, streaming website Netflix reached an arrangement with ISP Comcast to improve the quality of its service to Netflix clients.[62] This arrangement was made in response to increasingly slow connection speeds through Comcast over the course of 2013, where average speeds dropped by over 25% of their values a year before to an all-time low. After the deal was struck in January 2014, the Netflix speed index recorded a 66% increase in connection. Netflix agreed to a similar deal with Verizon in 2014, after Verizon DSL customers' connection speed dropped to less than 1 Mbit/s early in the year. Netflix spoke out against this deal with a controversial statement delivered to all Verizon customers experiencing low connection speeds, using the Netflix client.[63] This sparked an internal debate between the two companies that led to Verizon's obtaining a cease and desist order on 5 June 2014 that forced Netflix to stop displaying this message.

Favoring fast-loading websites edit

Pro-net neutrality arguments have also noted that regulations are necessary due to research showing low tolerance to slow-loading content providers. In a 2009 research study conducted by Forrester Research, online shoppers expected the web pages they visited to download content instantly.[64] When a page fails to load at the expected speed, many of them simply click out. A study found that even a one-second delay could lead to "11% fewer page views, a 16% decrease in customer satisfaction, and 7% loss in conversions."[65] This delay can cause a severe problem to small innovators who have created new technology. If a website is slow by default, the general public will lose interest and favor a website that runs faster. This helps large corporate companies maintain power because they have the means to fund faster Internet speeds.[66] On the other hand, smaller competitors have less financial capabilities making it harder for them to succeed in the online world.[67]

Legal aspects edit

Legal enforcement of net neutrality principles takes a variety of forms, from provisions that outlaw anti-competitive blocking and throttling of Internet services, all the way to legal enforcement that prevents companies from subsidizing Internet use on particular sites.[68] Contrary to popular rhetoric and statements by various individuals involved in the ongoing academic debate, research suggests that a single policy instrument (such as a no-blocking policy or a quality of service tiering policy) cannot achieve the range of valued political and economic objectives central to the debate.[13] As Bauer and Obar suggest, "safeguarding multiple goals requires a combination of instruments that will likely involve government and nongovernment measures. Furthermore, promoting goals such as the freedom of speech, political participation, investment, and innovation calls for complementary policies."[69]

By country edit

Governments of countries that comment on net neutrality usually support the concept.[70]

United States edit

Net neutrality in the United States has been a point of conflict between network users and service providers since the 1990s. Much of the conflict over net neutrality arises from how Internet services are classified by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) under the authority of the Communications Act of 1934. The FCC would have significant ability to regulate ISPs should Internet services be treated as a Title II "common carrier service", or otherwise the ISPs would be mostly unrestricted by the FCC if Internet services fell under Title I "information services". In 2009, the United States Congress passed the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act 2009, which granted a stimulus of $2.88 billion for extending broadband services into certain areas of the United States. It was intended to make the internet more accessible for under-served areas, and aspects of net neutrality and open access were written into the grant. However, the bill never set any significant precedents for net neutrality or influenced future legislation relating to net neutrality.[71] Through 2017, the FCC has generally been favorable towards net neutrality, treating ISPs under Title II common carrier. With the onset of the Presidency of Donald Trump in 2017, and the appointment of Ajit Pai, an opponent of net neutrality, to the chairman of the FCC, the FCC has reversed many previous net neutrality rulings and reclassified Internet services as Title I information services.[72] The FCC's decisions have been a matter of several ongoing legal challenges by both states supporting net neutrality, and ISPs challenging it. The United States Congress has attempted to pass legislation supporting net neutrality but has failed to gain sufficient support. In 2018, a bill cleared the U.S. Senate, with Republicans Lisa Murkowski, John Kennedy, and Susan Collins joining all 49 Democrats but the House majority denied the bill a hearing.[73] Individual states have been trying to pass legislation to make net neutrality a requirement within their state, overriding the FCC's decision. California has successfully passed its own net neutrality act, which the United States Department of Justice challenged on a legal basis.[74] On February 8, 2021, the U.S. Justice Department withdrew its challenge to California's data protection law. Federal Communications Commission Acting Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel voiced support for an open internet and restoring net neutrality.[75]

On October 19, 2023, the FCC voted 3-2 to approve a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) that seeks comments on a plan to restore net neutrality rules and regulation of Internet service providers.[76]

Canada edit

Net neutrality in Canada is a debated issue in that nation, but not to the degree of partisanship in other nations such as the United States in part because of its federal regulatory structure and pre-existing supportive laws that were enacted decades before the debate arose.[77] In Canada, Internet service providers (ISPs) generally provide Internet service in a neutral manner. Some notable incidents otherwise have included Bell Canada's throttling of certain protocols and Telus's censorship of a specific website supporting striking union members.[78] In the case with Bell Canada, the debate for net neutrality became a more popular topic when it was revealed that they were throttling traffic by limiting people's accessibility to view Canada's Next Great Prime Minister, which eventually led to the Canadian Association of Internet Providers (CAIP) demanding the Canadian Radio-Television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) to take action on preventing the throttling of third-party traffic.[79] On October 22, 2009, the CRTC issued a ruling about internet traffic management, which favored adopting guidelines that were suggested by interest groups such as OpenMedia.ca and the Open Internet Coalition. However, the guidelines set in place require citizens to file formal complaints proving that their internet traffic is being throttled, and as a result, some ISPs still continue to throttle the internet traffic of their users.[79]

India edit

In the year 2018, the Indian Government unanimously approved new regulations supporting net neutrality. The regulations are considered to be the "world's strongest" net neutrality rules, guaranteeing free and open Internet for nearly half a billion people,[80] and are expected to help the culture of startups and innovation. The only exceptions to the rules are new and emerging services like autonomous driving and tele-medicine, which may require prioritized internet lanes and faster than normal speeds.[81]

China edit

Net neutrality in China is not enforced, and ISPs in China play important roles in regulating the content that is available domestically on the internet. There are several ISPs filtering and blocking content at the national level, preventing domestic internet users from accessing certain sites or services or foreign internet users from gaining access to domestic web content. This filtering technology is referred to as the Great Firewall, or GFW.[82]

In an article published by the Cambridge University Press, they observed the political environment with net neutrality in China. Chinese ISPs have become a way for the country to control and restrict information rather than providing neutral internet content for those who use the internet.[83]

Philippines edit

Telecommunications providers do not follow net neutrality in the Philippines, the country which spends the most time on the Internet and Social Media per day.[84][85] Telcos offer data package promos that have turned the Philippines into a balkanized commercial splinternet by giving certain free zero-rated data allocations of branded corporate platform services like social media (Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, TikTok), video (YouTube, Netflix, HBO Go), gaming (Mobile Legends, Clash of Clans, PUBG, Call of Duty), shopping (Lazada, Zalora, Shopee), and communications (Zoom, Viber, WhatsApp) - thus steering subscribers towards using the telcos' preferred partnered services.[86][87][88]

In the mid-2010s, Philippine telcos came under fire from the Department of Justice for throttling the bandwidth of subscribers of unlimited data plans if the subscribers exceeded arbitrary data caps imposed by the telcos under a supposed "fair use policy" on their "unlimited" plans.[89] Certain adult sites like Pornhub, Redtube, and XTube have also been blocked by some Philippine ISPs at the request of the Philippine National Police to the National Telecommunications Commission, even without the necessary court orders required by the Supreme Court of the Philippines.[90]

Support edit

Proponents of net neutrality regulations include consumer advocates, human rights organizations such as Article 19,[91] online companies and some technology companies.[92] Net neutrality tends to be supported by those on the political left, while opposed by those on the political right.[93]

Many major Internet application companies are advocates of neutrality. Yahoo!, Vonage,[94] eBay, Amazon,[95] IAC/InterActiveCorp, Microsoft, Reddit, Twitter, Tumblr, Etsy, Daily Kos, Greenpeace, The Open Society Foundation[96] along with many other companies and organizations, have also taken a stance in support of net neutrality.[97][98] Cogent Communications, an international Internet service provider, has made an announcement in favor of certain net neutrality policies.[99] In September 2014, there was an online Internet Slowdown protest for the equal treatment of internet traffic in which large companies such as Netflix and Reddit have participated in.[100]

In 2008, Google published a statement speaking out against letting broadband providers abuse their market power to affect access to competing applications or content. They further equated the situation to that of the telephony market, where telephone companies are not allowed to control who their customers call or what those customers are allowed to say.[9] However, Google's support of net neutrality was called into question in 2014.[101] Several civil rights groups, such as the ACLU, the Electronic Frontier Foundation, Free Press, SaveTheInternet, and Fight for the Future support net neutrality.[102][100]

Individuals who support net neutrality include World Wide Web inventor Tim Berners-Lee,[103] Vinton Cerf,[104][105] Lawrence Lessig,[106] Robert W. McChesney,[107] Steve Wozniak, Susan P. Crawford, Marvin Ammori, Ben Scott, David Reed,[108] and former U.S. President Barack Obama.[109][110] On 10 November 2014, Obama recommended that the FCC reclassify broadband Internet service as a telecommunications service in order to preserve net neutrality.[111][112][113] On 31 January 2015, AP News reported that the FCC will present the notion of applying ("with some caveats") Title II (common carrier) of the Communications Act of 1934 and section 706 of the Telecommunications act of 1996[114] to the Internet in a vote expected on 26 February 2015.[115][116][117][118][119]

Control of data edit

Supporters of net neutrality in the United States want to designate cable companies as common carriers, which would require them to allow Internet service providers (ISPs) free access to cable lines, the same model used for dial-up Internet. They want to ensure that cable companies cannot screen, interrupt or filter Internet content without a court order.[120] Common carrier status would give the FCC the power to enforce net neutrality rules.[121] SaveTheInternet.com accuses cable and telecommunications companies of wanting the role of gatekeepers, being able to control which websites load quickly, load slowly, or do not load at all. According to SaveTheInternet.com, these companies want to charge content providers who require guaranteed speedy data delivery – to create advantages for their own search engines, Internet phone services, and streaming video services – and slowing access or blocking access to those of competitors.[122] Vinton Cerf, a co-inventor of the Internet Protocol and current vice president of Google, argues that the Internet was designed without any authorities controlling access to new content or new services.[123] He concludes that the principles responsible for making the Internet such a success would be fundamentally undermined were broadband carriers given the ability to affect what people see and do online.[104] Cerf has also written about the importance of looking at problems like Net Neutrality through a combination of the Internet's layered system and the multistakeholder model that governs it.[124] He shows how challenges can arise that can implicate Net Neutrality in certain infrastructure-based cases, such as when ISPs enter into exclusive arrangements with large building owners, leaving the residents unable to exercise any choice in broadband provider.[125]

Digital rights and freedoms edit

Proponents of net neutrality argue that a neutral net will foster free speech and lead to further democratic participation on the Internet. Former Senator Al Franken from Minnesota fears that without new regulations, the major Internet Service Providers will use their position of power to stifle people's rights. He calls net neutrality the "First Amendment issue of our time."[126] The past two decades has been an ongoing battle of ensuring that all people and websites have equal access to an unrestricted platform, regardless of their ability to pay, proponents of net neutrality wish to prevent the need to pay for speech and the further centralization of media power.[127] Lawrence Lessig and Robert W. McChesney argue that net neutrality ensures that the Internet remains a free and open technology, fostering democratic communication. Lessig and McChesney go on to argue that the monopolization of the Internet would stifle the diversity of independent news sources and the generation of innovative and novel web content.[106]

User intolerance for slow-loading sites edit

 
Users with faster Internet connectivity (e.g., fiber) abandon a slow-loading video at a faster rate than users with slower Internet connectivity (e.g., cable or mobile).[128]

Proponents of net neutrality invoke the human psychological process of adaptation where when people get used to something better, they would not ever want to go back to something worse. In the context of the Internet, the proponents argue that a user who gets used to the "fast lane" on the Internet would find the slow lane intolerable in comparison, greatly disadvantaging any provider who is unable to pay for the fast lane. Video providers Netflix[129] and Vimeo[130] in their comments to FCC in favor of net neutrality use the research[128] of S.S. Krishnan and Ramesh Sitaraman that provides the first quantitative evidence of adaptation to speed among online video users. Their research studied the patience level of millions of Internet video users who waited for a slow-loading video to start playing. Users who had faster Internet connectivity, such as fiber-to-the-home, demonstrated less patience and abandoned their videos sooner than similar users with slower Internet connectivity. The results demonstrate how users can get used to faster Internet connectivity, leading to higher expectations of Internet speed, and lower tolerance for any delay that occurs. Author Nicholas Carr[131] and other social commentators[132][133] have written about the habituation phenomenon by stating that a faster flow of information on the Internet can make people less patient.

Competition and innovation edit

Net neutrality advocates argue that allowing cable companies the right to demand a toll to guarantee quality or premium delivery would create an exploitative business model based on the ISPs position as gatekeepers.[134] Advocates warn that by charging websites for access, network owners may be able to block competitor Web sites and services, as well as refuse access to those unable to pay.[106] According to Tim Wu, cable companies plan to reserve bandwidth for their own television services, and charge companies a toll for priority service.[135] Proponents of net neutrality argue that allowing for preferential treatment of Internet traffic, or tiered service, would put newer online companies at a disadvantage and slow innovation in online services.[92] Tim Wu argues that, without network neutrality, the Internet will undergo a transformation from a market ruled by innovation to one ruled by deal-making.[135] SaveTheInternet.com argues that net neutrality puts everyone on equal terms, which helps drive innovation. They claim it is a preservation of the way the Internet has always operated, where the quality of websites and services determined whether they succeeded or failed, rather than deals with ISPs.[122] Lawrence Lessig and Robert W. McChesney argue that eliminating net neutrality would lead to the Internet resembling the world of cable TV, so that access to and distribution of content would be managed by a handful of massive, near monopolistic companies, though there are multiple service providers in each region. These companies would then control what is seen as well as how much it costs to see it. Speedy and secure Internet use for such industries as healthcare, finance, retailing, and gambling could be subject to large fees charged by these companies. They further explain that a majority of the great innovators in the history of the Internet started with little capital in their garages, inspired by great ideas. This was possible because the protections of net neutrality ensured limited control by owners of the networks, maximal competition in this space, and permitted innovators from outside access to the network. Internet content was guaranteed a free and highly competitive space by the existence of net neutrality.[106] For example, back in 2005 YouTube was just a small startup company. Due to the absence of Internet fast lanes, YouTube had the ability to grow larger than Google Video. Tom Wheeler and Senators Ronald Lee Wyden (D-Ore.) and Al Franken (D-Minn.) said, "Internet service providers treated YouTube's videos the same as they did Google's, and Google couldn't pay the ISPs [Internet service providers] to gain an unfair advantage, like a fast lane into consumers' homes," they wrote. "Well, it turned out that people liked YouTube a lot more than Google Video, so YouTube thrived."[136]

Preserving Internet standards edit

Net neutrality advocates have sponsored legislation claiming that authorizing incumbent network providers to override transport and application layer separation on the Internet would signal the decline of fundamental Internet standards and international consensus authority. Further, the legislation asserts that bit-shaping the transport of application data will undermine the transport layer's designed flexibility.[137]

End-to-end principle edit

Some advocates say network neutrality is needed in order to maintain the end-to-end principle. According to Lawrence Lessig and Robert W. McChesney, all content must be treated the same and must move at the same speed in order for net neutrality to be true. They say that it is this simple but brilliant end-to-end aspect that has allowed the Internet to act as a powerful force for economic and social good.[106] Under this principle, a neutral network is a dumb network, merely passing packets regardless of the applications they support. This point of view was expressed by David S. Isenberg in his paper, "The Rise of the Stupid Network". He states that the vision of an intelligent network is being replaced by a new network philosophy and architecture in which the network is designed for always-on use, not intermittence and scarcity. Rather than intelligence being designed into the network itself, the intelligence would be pushed out to the end-users device; and the network would be designed simply to deliver bits without fancy network routing or smart number translation. The data would be in control, telling the network where it should be sent. End-user devices would then be allowed to behave flexibly, as bits would essentially be free and there would be no assumption that the data is of a single data rate or data type.[138]

Contrary to this idea, the research paper titled "End-to-end arguments in system design" by Saltzer, Reed, and Clark argues that network intelligence does not relieve end systems of the requirement to check inbound data for errors and to rate-limit the sender, nor for wholesale removal of intelligence from the network core.[139]

Criticism edit

Opponents of net neutrality regulations include Internet service providers (ISPs), broadband and telecommunications companies, computer hardware manufacturers, economists, and notable technologists. Many of the major hardware and telecommunications companies specifically oppose the reclassification of broadband as a common carrier under Title II. Corporate opponents of this measure include Comcast, AT&T, Verizon, IBM, Intel, Cisco, Nokia, Qualcomm, Broadcom, Juniper, D-Link, Wintel, Alcatel-Lucent, Corning, Panasonic, Ericsson, Oracle, Akamai, and others.[140][141][142][143] The US Telecom and Broadband Association, which represents a diverse array of small and large broadband providers, is also an opponent.[144][145]

Nobel Memorial Prize-winning economist Gary Becker's paper titled, "Net Neutrality and Consumer Welfare", published by the Journal of Competition Law & Economics, argues that claims by net neutrality proponents "do not provide a compelling rationale for regulation" because there is "significant and growing competition" among broadband access providers.[146][147] Google Chairman Eric Schmidt states that, while Google views that similar data types should not be discriminated against, it is okay to discriminate across different data types—a position that both Google and Verizon generally agree on, according to Schmidt.[148][149] According to the Journal, when President Barack Obama announced his support for strong net neutrality rules late in 2014, Schmidt told a top White House official the president was making a mistake. Google once strongly advocated net-neutrality–like rules prior to 2010, but their support for the rules has since diminished; the company however still remains "committed" to net neutrality.[149][150]

Individuals who oppose net neutrality rules include TCP/IP inventor Bob Kahn,[151][152] Netscape founder Marc Andreessen,[153] Sun Microsystems founder Scott McNealy,[154] PayPal founders Peter Thiel and Max Levchin,[146][155] "Grandfather of the Internet" David Farber,[156][157] Internet pioneer David Clark,[158][159] packet switching pioneer Louis Pouzin,[160] MIT Media Lab founder Nicholas Negroponte,[161] Nokia's CEO Rajeev Suri,[162] VOIP pioneer Jeff Pulver,[163] entrepreneur Mark Cuban[164] and former FCC Chairman Ajit Pai.

Nobel Prize laureate economists who oppose net neutrality rules include Princeton economist Angus Deaton, Chicago economist Richard Thaler, MIT economist Bengt Holmström, and the late Chicago economist Gary Becker.[165][166] Others include MIT economists David Autor, Amy Finkelstein, and Richard Schmalensee; Stanford economists Raj Chetty, Darrell Duffie, Caroline Hoxby, and Kenneth Judd; Harvard economist Alberto Alesina; Berkeley economists Alan Auerbach and Emmanuel Saez; and Yale economists William Nordhaus, Joseph Altonji and Pinelopi Goldberg.[165]

Several civil rights groups, such as the National Urban League, Jesse Jackson's Rainbow/PUSH, and League of United Latin American Citizens, also oppose Title II net neutrality regulations,[167] who said that the call to regulate broadband Internet service as a utility would harm minority communities by stifling investment in underserved areas.[168][169]

The Wikimedia Foundation, which runs Wikipedia, told The Washington Post that it has a "complicated relationship" with net neutrality.[170] The organization partnered with telecommunications companies to provide free access to Wikipedia for people in developing countries, under a program called Wikipedia Zero, without requiring mobile data to access information. The concept is known as zero rating. Said Wikimedia Foundation officer Gayle Karen Young, "Partnering with telecom companies in the near term, it blurs the net neutrality line in those areas. It fulfills our overall mission, though, which is providing free knowledge."[171]

A number of other opponents created Hands Off The Internet,[172] a website created in 2006 to promote arguments against Internet regulation. Principal financial support for the website came from AT&T, and members included BellSouth, Alcatel, Cingular, and Citizens Against Government Waste.[173][174][175][176][177]

Robert Pepper, a senior managing director of global advanced technology policy, at Cisco Systems, and former FCC chief of policy development, says: "The supporters of net neutrality regulation believe that more rules are necessary. In their view, without greater regulation, service providers might parcel out bandwidth or services, creating a bifurcated world in which the wealthy enjoy first-class Internet access, while everyone else is left with slow connections and degraded content. That scenario, however, is a false paradigm. Such an all-or-nothing world doesn't exist today, nor will it exist in the future. Without additional regulation, service providers are likely to continue doing what they are doing. They will continue to offer a variety of broadband service plans at a variety of price points to suit every type of consumer."[178] Computer scientist Bob Kahn[179] has said net neutrality is a slogan that would freeze innovation in the core of the Internet.[152]

Farber has written and spoken strongly in favor of continued research and development on core Internet protocols. He joined academic colleagues Michael Katz, Christopher Yoo, and Gerald Faulhaber in an op-ed for The Washington Post strongly critical of network neutrality, essentially stating that while the Internet is in need of remodeling, congressional action aimed at protecting the best parts of the current Internet could interfere with efforts to build a replacement.[180]

Reduction in investment edit

According to a letter to FCC commissioners and key congressional leaders sent by 60 major ISP technology suppliers including IBM, Intel, Qualcomm, and Cisco, Title II regulation of the Internet "means that instead of billions of broadband investment driving other sectors of the economy forward, any reduction in this spending will stifle growth across the entire economy. This is not idle speculation or fear mongering...Title II is going to lead to a slowdown, if not a hold, in broadband build out, because if you don't know that you can recover on your investment, you won't make it."[140][181][182][183] According to the Wall Street Journal, in one of Google's few lobbying sessions with FCC officials, the company urged the agency to craft rules that encourage investment in broadband Internet networks—a position that mirrors the argument made by opponents of strong net neutrality rules, such as AT&T and Comcast.[149] Opponents of net neutrality argue that prioritization of bandwidth is necessary for future innovation on the Internet.[142] Telecommunications providers such as telephone and cable companies, and some technology companies that supply networking gear, argue telecom providers should have the ability to provide preferential treatment in the form of tiered services, for example by giving online companies willing to pay the ability to transfer their data packets faster than other Internet traffic.[184] The added income from such services could be used to pay for the building of increased broadband access to more consumers.[92]

Opponents say that net neutrality would make it more difficult for Internet service providers (ISPs) and other network operators to recoup their investments in broadband networks.[185] John Thorne, senior vice president and deputy general counsel of Verizon, a broadband and telecommunications company, has argued that they will have no incentive to make large investments to develop advanced fibre-optic networks if they are prohibited from charging higher preferred access fees to companies that wish to take advantage of the expanded capabilities of such networks. Thorne and other ISPs have accused Google and Skype of freeloading or free riding for using a network of lines and cables the phone company spent billions of dollars to build.[142][186][187] Marc Andreessen states that "a pure net neutrality view is difficult to sustain if you also want to have continued investment in broadband networks. If you're a large telco right now, you spend on the order of $20 billion a year on capex [capital expenditure]. You need to know how you're going to get a return on that investment. If you have these pure net neutrality rules where you can never charge a company like Netflix anything, you're not ever going to get a return on continued network investment – which means you'll stop investing in the network. And I would not want to be sitting here 10 or 20 years from now with the same broadband speeds we're getting today."[188]

Proponents of net neutrality regulations say network operators have continued to under-invest in infrastructure.[189] However, according to Copenhagen Economics, U.S. investment in telecom infrastructure is 50 percent higher than in the European Union. As a share of GDP, the United States' broadband investment rate per GDP trails only the UK and South Korea slightly, but exceeds Japan, Canada, Italy, Germany, and France sizably.[190] On broadband speed, Akamai reported that the US trails only South Korea and Japan among its major trading partners, and trails only Japan in the G-7 in both average peak connection speed and percentage of the population connection at 10 Mbit/s or higher, but are substantially ahead of most of its other major trading partners.[190]

The White House reported in June 2013 that U.S. connection speeds are "the fastest compared to other countries with either a similar population or land mass."[191] Akamai's report on "The State of the Internet" in the 2nd quarter of 2014 says "a total of 39 states saw 4K readiness rate more than double over the past year." In other words, as ZDNet reports, those states saw a major increase in the availability of the 15 Mbit/s speed needed for 4K video.[192] According to the Progressive Policy Institute and ITU data, the United States has the most affordable entry-level prices for fixed broadband in the OECD.[190][193]

In Indonesia, there is a very high number of Internet connections that are subject to exclusive deals between the ISP and the building owner, and changing this dynamic could unlock much more consumer choices and higher speeds.[125] FCC Commissioner Ajit Pai and Federal Election Commission's Lee Goldman wrote in a Politico piece in February 2015, "Compare Europe, which has long had utility-style regulations, with the United States, which has embraced a light-touch regulatory model. Broadband speeds in the United States, both wired and wireless, are significantly faster than those in Europe. Broadband investment in the United States is several multiples that of Europe. And broadband's reach is much wider in the United States, despite its much lower population density."[194]

VOIP pioneer Jeff Pulver states that the uncertainty of the FCC imposing Title II, which experts said would create regulatory restrictions on using the Internet to transmit a voice call, was the "single greatest impediment to innovation" for a decade.[195] According to Pulver, investors in the companies he helped found, like Vonage, held back investment because they feared the FCC could use Title II to prevent VOIP startups from bypassing telephone networks.[195]

Significant and growing competition, investment edit

A 2010 paper on net neutrality by Nobel Prize economist Gary Becker and his colleagues stated that "there is significant and growing competition among broadband access providers and that few significant competitive problems have been observed to date, suggesting that there is no compelling competitive rationale for such regulation."[147] Becker and fellow economists Dennis Carlton and Hal Sidler found that "Between mid-2002 and mid-2008, the number of high-speed broadband access lines in the United States grew from 16 million to nearly 133 million, and the number of residential broadband lines grew from 14 million to nearly 80 million. Internet traffic roughly tripled between 2007 and 2009. At the same time, prices for broadband Internet access services have fallen sharply."[147] The PPI reports that the profit margins of U.S. broadband providers are generally one-sixth to one-eighth of companies that use broadband (such as Apple or Google), contradicting the idea of monopolistic price-gouging by providers.[190]

When FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler redefined broadband from 4 Mbit/s to 25 Mbit/s (3.125 MB/s) or greater in January 2015, FCC commissioners Ajit Pai and Mike O'Reilly believed the redefinition was to set up the agency's intent to settle the net neutrality fight with new regulations. The commissioners argued that the stricter speed guidelines painted the broadband industry as less competitive, justifying the FCC's moves with Title II net neutrality regulations.[196]

A report by the Progressive Policy Institute in June 2014 argues that nearly every American can choose from at least 2-4 broadband Internet service providers, despite claims that there are only a "small number" of broadband providers.[190] Citing research from the FCC, the Institute wrote that 90 percent of American households have access to at least one wired and one wireless broadband provider at speeds of at least 4 Mbit/s (500 kbyte/s) downstream and 1 Mbit/s (125 kbyte/s) upstream and that nearly 88 percent of Americans can choose from at least two wired providers of broadband disregarding speed (typically choosing between a cable and telco offering). Further, three of the four national wireless companies report that they offer 4G LTE to 250–300 million Americans, with the fourth (T-Mobile) sitting at 209 million and counting.[190] Similarly, the FCC reported in June 2008 that 99.8% of ZIP codes in the United States had two or more providers of high-speed Internet lines available, and 94.6% of ZIP codes had four or more providers, as reported by University of Chicago economists Gary Becker, Dennis Carlton, and Hal Sider in a 2010 paper.[147]

Deterring competition edit

FCC commissioner Ajit Pai states that the FCC completely brushes away the concerns of smaller competitors who are going to be subject to various taxes, such as state property taxes and general receipts taxes.[197] As a result, according to Pai, that does nothing to create more competition within the market.[197] According to Pai, the FCC's ruling to impose Title II regulations is opposed by the country's smallest private competitors and many municipal broadband providers.[198] In his dissent, Pai noted that 142 wireless ISPs (WISPs) said that FCC's new "regulatory intrusion into our businesses ... would likely force us to raise prices, delay deployment expansion, or both." He also noted that 24 of the country's smallest ISPs, each with fewer than 1,000 residential broadband customers, wrote to the FCC stating that Title II "will badly strain our limited resources" because they "have no in-house attorneys and no budget line items for outside counsel." Further, another 43 municipal broadband providers told the FCC that Title II "will trigger consequences beyond the Commission's control and risk serious harm to our ability to fund and deploy broadband without bringing any concrete benefit for consumers or edge providers that the market is not already proving today without the aid of any additional regulation."[141]

According to a Wired magazine article by TechFreedom's Berin Szoka, Matthew Starr, and Jon Henke, local governments and public utilities impose the most significant barriers to entry for more cable broadband competition: "While popular arguments focus on supposed 'monopolists' such as big cable companies, it's government that's really to blame." The authors state that local governments and their public utilities charge ISPs far more than they actually cost and have the final say on whether an ISP can build a network. The public officials determine what requirements an ISP must meet to get approval for access to publicly owned rights of way (which lets them place their wires), thus reducing the number of potential competitors who can profitably deploy Internet services—such as AT&T's U-Verse, Google Fiber, and Verizon FiOS. Kickbacks may include municipal requirements for ISPs such as building out service where it is not demanded, donating equipment, and delivering free broadband to government buildings.[199]

According to a research article from MIS Quarterly, the authors stated their findings subvert some of the expectations of how ISPs and CPs act regarding net neutrality laws. The paper shows that even if an ISP is under restrictions, it still has the opportunity and the incentive to act as a gatekeeper over CPs by enforcing priority delivery of content.[200]

Counterweight to server-side non-neutrality edit

Those in favor of forms of non-neutral tiered Internet access argue that the Internet is already not a level playing field, and that large companies achieve a performance advantage over smaller competitors by providing more and better-quality servers and buying high-bandwidth services. Should scrapping of net neutrality regulations precipitate a price drop for lower levels of access, or access to only certain protocols, for instance, such would make Internet usage more adaptable to the needs of those individuals and corporations who specifically seek differentiated tiers of service. Network expert[201] Richard Bennett has written, "A richly funded Web site, which delivers data faster than its competitors to the front porches of the Internet service providers, wants it delivered the rest of the way on an equal basis. This system, which Google calls broadband neutrality, actually preserves a more fundamental inequality."[202]

Potentially increased taxes edit

FCC commissioner Ajit Pai, who opposed the 2015 Title II reclassification of ISPs, says that the ruling allows new fees and taxes on broadband by subjecting them to telephone-style taxes under the Universal Service Fund. Net neutrality proponent Free Press writes, "the average potential increase in taxes and fees per household would be far less" than the estimate given by net neutrality opponents, and that if there were to be additional taxes, the tax figure may be around US$4 billion. Under favorable circumstances, "the increase would be exactly zero."[203] Meanwhile, the Progressive Policy Institute claims that Title II could trigger taxes and fees up to $11 billion a year.[204] Financial website Nerd Wallet did their own assessment and settled on a possible US$6.25 billion tax impact, estimating that the average American household may see their tax bill increase US$67 annually.[204]

FCC spokesperson Kim Hart said that the ruling "does not raise taxes or fees. Period."[204]

Unnecessary regulations edit

According to PayPal founder and Facebook investor Peter Thiel in 2011, "Net neutrality has not been necessary to date. I don't see any reason why it's suddenly become important, when the Internet has functioned quite well for the past 15 years without it. ... Government attempts to regulate technology have been extraordinarily counterproductive in the past."[146] Max Levchin, the other co-founder of PayPal, echoed similar statements, telling CNBC, "The Internet is not broken, and it got here without government regulation and probably in part because of lack of government regulation."[205]

FCC Commissioner Ajit Pai, who was one of the two commissioners who opposed the net neutrality proposal, criticized the FCC's ruling on Internet neutrality, stating that the perceived threats from ISPs to deceive consumers, degrade content, or disfavor the content that they dislike are non-existent: "The evidence of these continuing threats? There is none; it's all anecdote, hypothesis, and hysteria. A small ISP in North Carolina allegedly blocked VoIP calls a decade ago. Comcast capped BitTorrent traffic to ease upload congestion eight years ago. Apple introduced Facetime over Wi-Fi first, cellular networks later. "FCC Chairman Pai wants to switch ISP rules from proactive restrictions to after-the-fact litigation, which means a lot more leeway for ISPs that don't particularly want to be treated as impartial utilities connecting people to the internet." (Atherton, 2017).[20] Examples this picayune and stale aren't enough to tell a coherent story about net neutrality. The bogeyman never had it so easy."[141] FCC Commissioner Mike O'Reilly, the other opposing commissioner, also claims that the ruling is a solution to a hypothetical problem, "Even after enduring three weeks of spin, it is hard for me to believe that the Commission is establishing an entire Title II/net neutrality regime to protect against hypothetical harms. There is not a shred of evidence that any aspect of this structure is necessary. The D.C. Circuit called the prior, scaled-down version a 'prophylactic' approach. I call it guilt by imagination."[citation needed] In a Chicago Tribune article, FCC Commissioner Pai and Joshua Wright of the Federal Trade Commission argue that "the Internet isn't broken, and we don't need the president's plan to 'fix' it. Quite the opposite. The Internet is an unparalleled success story. It is a free, open and thriving platform."[206]

Inability to make the Internet accessible to the poor edit

Opponents argue that net neutrality regulations prevent service providers from providing more affordable Internet access to those who can't afford it.[168] A concept known as zero-rating, ISPs would be unable to provide Internet access for free or at a reduced cost to the poor under net neutrality rules.[207][168] For example, low-income users who can't afford bandwidth-hogging Internet services such as video streams could be exempted from paying through subsidies or advertising.[168] However, under the rules, ISPs would not be able to discriminate traffic, thus forcing low-income users to pay for high-bandwidth usage like other users.[207]

The Wikimedia Foundation, which runs Wikipedia, created Wikipedia Zero to provide Wikipedia free-of-charge on mobile phones to low-income users, especially those in developing countries. However, the practice violates net neutrality rules as traffic would have to be treated equally regardless of the users' ability to pay.[168][208] In 2014, Chile banned the practice of Internet service providers giving users free access to websites like Wikipedia and Facebook, saying the practice violates net neutrality rules.[209] In 2016, India banned Internet.org's Free Basics application, which provides users in less developed countries with free access to a variety of websites like Wikipedia, BBC, Dictionary.com, health sites, Facebook, ESPN, and weather reports—ruling that the initiative violated net neutrality.[210]

Inability to allocate Internet traffic efficiently edit

Net neutrality rules would prevent traffic from being allocated to the most needed users, according to Internet Pioneer David Farber.[180] Because net neutrality regulations prevent a discrimination of traffic, networks would have to treat critical traffic equally with non-critical traffic. According to Farber, "When traffic surges beyond the ability of the network to carry it, something is going to be delayed. When choosing what gets delayed, it makes sense to allow a network to favor traffic from, say, a patient's heart monitor over traffic delivering a music download. It also makes sense to allow network operators to restrict traffic that is downright harmful, such as viruses, worms and spam."[180]

Related issues edit

Data discrimination edit

Tim Wu, though a proponent of network neutrality, claims that the current Internet is not neutral as its implementation of best effort generally favors file transfer and other non-time-sensitive traffic over real-time communications.[211] Generally, a network which blocks some nodes or services for the customers of the network would normally be expected to be less useful to the customers than one that did not. Therefore, for a network to remain significantly non-neutral requires either that the customers not be concerned about the particular non-neutralities or the customers not have any meaningful choice of providers, otherwise they would presumably switch to another provider with fewer restrictions.[citation needed]

While the network neutrality debate continues, network providers often enter into peering arrangements among themselves. These agreements often stipulate how certain information flows should be treated. In addition, network providers often implement various policies such as blocking of port 25 to prevent insecure systems from serving as spam relays, or other ports commonly used by decentralized music search applications implementing peer-to-peer networking models. They also present terms of service that often include rules about the use of certain applications as part of their contracts with users.[citation needed] Most consumer Internet providers implement policies like these. The MIT Mantid Port Blocking Measurement Project is a measurement effort to characterize Internet port blocking and potentially discriminatory practices. However, the effect of peering arrangements among network providers are only local to the peers that enter into the arrangements and cannot affect traffic flow outside their scope.[citation needed]

Jon Peha from Carnegie Mellon University believes it is important to create policies that protect users from harmful traffic discrimination while allowing beneficial discrimination. Peha discusses the technologies that enable traffic discrimination, examples of different types of discrimination, and the potential impacts of regulation.[212] Google Chairman Eric Schmidt aligns Google's views on data discrimination with Verizon's: "I want to be clear what we mean by Net neutrality: What we mean is if you have one data type like video, you don't discriminate against one person's video in favor of another. But it's okay to discriminate across different types. So you could prioritize voice over video. And there is general agreement with Verizon and Google on that issue."[148] Echoing similar comments by Schmidt, Google's Chief Internet Evangelist and "father of the Internet", Vint Cerf, says that "it's entirely possible that some applications needs far more latency, like games. Other applications need broadband streaming capability in order to deliver real-time video. Others don't really care as long as they can get the bits there, like e-mail or file transfers and things like that. But it should not be the case that the supplier of the access to the network mediates this on a competitive basis, but you may still have different kinds of service depending on what the requirements are for the different applications."[213]

Content caching edit

Content caching is the process by which frequently accessed contents are temporarily stored in strategic network positions (e.g., in servers close to the end-users[214]) to achieve several performance objectives. For example, caching is commonly used by ISPs to reduce network congestion and results in a superior quality of experience (QoE) perceived by the final users.

Since the storage available in cache servers is limited, caching involves a process of selecting the contents worth storing. Several cache algorithms have been designed to perform this process which, in general, leads to storing the most popular contents. The cached contents are retrieved at a higher QoE (e.g., lower latency), and caching can be therefore considered a form of traffic differentiation.[212] However, caching is not generally viewed as a form of discriminatory traffic differentiation. For example, the technical writer Adam Marcus states that "accessing content from edge servers may be a bit faster for users, but nobody is being discriminated against and most content on the Internet is not latency-sensitive".[214] In line with this statement, caching is not regulated by legal frameworks that are favourable to Net Neutrality, such as the Open Internet Order issued by the FCC in 2015. Even more so, the legitimacy of caching has never been put in doubt by opponents of Net Neutrality. On the contrary, the complexity of caching operations (e.g., extensive information processing) has been successively regarded by the FCC as one of the technical reasons why ISPs should not be considered common carriers, which legitimates the abrogation of Net Neutrality rules.[215] Under a Net Neutrality regime, prioritization of a class of traffic with respect to another one is allowed only if several requirements are met (e.g., objectively different QoS requirements).[216] However, when it comes to caching, a selection of contents of the same class has to be performed (e.g., set of videos worth storing in cache servers). In the spirit of general deregulation with regard to caching, there is no rule that specifies how this process can be carried out in a non-discriminatory way. Nevertheless, the scientific literature considers the issue of caching as a potentially discriminatory process and provides possible guidelines to address it.[217] For example, a non-discriminatory caching might be performed considering the popularity of contents, or with the aim of guaranteeing the same QoE to all the users, or, alternatively, to achieve some common welfare objectives.[217]

As far as content delivery networks (CDNs) are concerned, the relationship between caching and Net Neutrality is even more complex. In fact, CDNs are employed to allow scalable and highly-efficient content delivery rather than to grant access to the Internet. Consequently, differently from ISPs, CDNs are entitled to charge content providers for caching their content. Therefore, although this may be regarded as a form of paid traffic prioritization, CDNs are not subject to Net Neutrality regulations and are rarely included in the debate. Despite this, it is argued by some that the Internet ecosystem has changed to such an extent that all the players involved in the content delivery can distort competition and should be therefore also included in the discussion around Net Neutrality.[217] Among those, the analyst Dan Rayburn suggested that "the Open Internet Order enacted by the FCC in 2015 was myopically focussed on ISPs".[218]

Quality of service edit

Internet routers forward packets according to the diverse peering and transport agreements that exist between network operators. Many networks using Internet protocols now employ quality of service (QoS), and Network Service Providers frequently enter into Service Level Agreements with each other embracing some sort of QoS. There is no single, uniform method of interconnecting networks using IP, and not all networks that use IP are part of the Internet. IPTV networks are isolated from the Internet and are therefore not covered by network neutrality agreements. The IP datagram includes a 3-bit wide Precedence field and a larger DiffServ Code Point (DSCP) that are used to request a level of service, consistent with the notion that protocols in a layered architecture offer service through Service Access Points. This field is sometimes ignored, especially if it requests a level of service outside the originating network's contract with the receiving network. It is commonly used in private networks, especially those including Wi-Fi networks where priority is enforced. While there are several ways of communicating service levels across Internet connections, such as SIP, RSVP, IEEE 802.11e, and MPLS, the most common scheme combines SIP and DSCP. Router manufacturers now sell routers that have logic enabling them to route traffic for various Classes of Service at wire-speed.

Quality of service is sometimes taken as a measurement through certain tools to test a user's connection quality, such as Network Diagnostic Tools (NDT) and services on speedtest.net. These tools are known to be used by National Regulatory Authorities (NRAs), who use these QoS measurements as a way of detecting Net Neutrality violations. However, there are very few examples of such measurements being used in any significant way by NRAs, or in network policy for that matter. Often, these tools are used not because they fail at recording the results they are meant to record, but because said measurements are inflexible and difficult to exploit for any significant purpose. According to Ioannis Koukoutsidis, the problems with the current tools used to measure QoS stem from a lack of a standard detection methodology, a need to be able to detect various methods in which an ISP might violate Net Neutrality, and the inability to test an average measurement for a specific population of users.[219]

With the emergence of multimedia, VoIP, IPTV, and other applications that benefit from low latency, various attempts to address the inability of some private networks to limit latency have arisen, including the proposition of offering tiered service levels that would shape Internet transmissions at the network layer based on application type. These efforts are ongoing and are starting to yield results as wholesale Internet transport providers begin to amend service agreements to include service levels.[220]

Advocates of net neutrality have proposed several methods to implement a net-neutral Internet that includes a notion of quality-of-service:

  • An approach offered by Tim Berners-Lee allows discrimination between different tiers while enforcing strict neutrality of data sent at each tier: "If I pay to connect to the Net with a given quality of service, and you pay to connect to the net with the same or higher quality of service, then you and I can communicate across the net, with that quality and quantity of service."[8] "[We] each pay to connect to the Net, but no one can pay for exclusive access to me."[221]
  • United States lawmakers have introduced bills that would now allow quality of service discrimination for certain services as long as no special fee is charged for higher-quality service.[222]

Wireless networks edit

There are also some discrepancies in how wireless networks affect the implementation of net neutrality policy, some of which are noted in the studies of Christopher Yoo. In one research article, he claimed that "...bad handoffs, local congestion, and the physics of wave propagation make wireless broadband networks significantly less reliable than fixed broadband networks."[223]

Pricing models edit

Broadband Internet access has most often been sold to users based on Excess Information Rate or maximum available bandwidth. If Internet service providers (ISPs) can provide varying levels of service to websites at various prices, this may be a way to manage the costs of unused capacity by selling surplus bandwidth (or "leverage price discrimination to recoup costs of 'consumer surplus'"). However, purchasers of connectivity on the basis of Committed Information Rate or guaranteed bandwidth capacity must expect the capacity they purchase in order to meet their communications requirements. Various studies have sought to provide network providers with the necessary formulas for adequately pricing such a tiered service for their customer base. But while network neutrality is primarily focused on protocol-based provisioning, most of the pricing models are based on bandwidth restrictions.[224]

Many Economists have analyzed Net Neutrality to compare various hypothetical pricing models. For instance, economic professors Michael L. Katz and Benjamin E. Hermalin at the University of California Berkeley co-published a paper titled, "The Economics of Product-Line Restrictions with an Application to the Network Neutrality Debate" in 2007. In this paper, they compared the single-service economic equilibrium to the multi-service economic equilibriums under Net Neutrality.[225]

Reactions to removing net neutrality in the US edit

On 12 July 2017, an event called the Day of Action was held to advocate net neutrality in the United States in response to Ajit Pai's plans to remove government policies that upheld net neutrality. Several websites participated in this event, including ones such as Amazon, Netflix, Google, and several other just as well-known websites. The gathering was called "the largest online protest in history." Websites chose many different ways to convey their message. The founder of the web, Tim Berners-Lee, published a video defending FCC's rules. Reddit made a pop-up message that loads slowly to illustrate the effect of removing net neutrality. Other websites also put up some less obvious notifications, such as Amazon, which put up a hard-to-notice link, or Google, which put up a policy blog post as opposed to a more obvious message.[226]

A poll conducted by Mozilla showed strong support for net neutrality across US political parties. Out of the approximately 1,000 responses received by the poll, 76% of Americans, 81% of Democrats, and 73% of Republicans, support net neutrality.[227] The poll also showed that 78% of Americans do not think that Trump's government can be trusted to protect access to the Internet. Net neutrality supporters had also made several comments on the FCC website opposing plans to remove net neutrality, especially after a segment by John Oliver regarding this topic was aired on his show Last Week Tonight.[228] He urged his viewers to comment on the FCC's website, and the flood of comments that were received crashed the FCC's website, with the resulting media coverage of the incident inadvertently helping it to reach greater audiences.[229] However, in response, Ajit Pai selected one particular comment that specifically supported removal of net neutrality policies.

At the end of August, the FCC released more than 13,000 pages of net neutrality complaints filed by consumers, one day before the deadline for the public to comment on Ajit Pai's proposal to remove net neutrality. It has been implied that the FCC ignored evidence against their proposal in order to remove the protection laws faster. It has also been noted that nowhere was it mentioned how FCC made any attempt to resolve the complaints made. Regardless, Ajit Pai's proposal has drawn more than 22 million comments, though a large amount was spam. However, there were 1.5 million personalized comments, 98.5% of them protesting Ajit Pai's plan.[230] 

As of January 2018,[needs update] fifty senators had endorsed a legislative measure to override the Federal Communications Commission's decision to deregulate the broadband industry. The Congressional Review Act paperwork was filed on 9 May 2018, which allowed the Senate to vote on the permanence of the new net neutrality rules proposed by the Federal Communications Commission.[231] The vote passed and a resolution was approved to try to remove the FCC's new rules on net neutrality; however, officials doubted there was enough time to completely repeal the rules before the Open Internet Order officially expired on 11 June 2018.[232] A September 2018 report from Northeastern University and the University of Massachusetts, Amherst found that U.S. telecom companies are indeed slowing Internet traffic to and from those two sites in particular along with other popular apps.[233] In March 2019, congressional supporters of net neutrality introduced the Save the Internet Act in both the House and Senate, which if passed would reverse the FCC's 2017 repeal of net neutrality protections.[234]

Rural digital divide edit

A digital divide is referred to as the difference between those who have access to the internet and those using digital technologies based on urban against rural areas.[235] In the U.S, government city tech leaders warned in 2017 that the FCC's repeal of net neutrality will widen the digital divide, negatively affect small businesses, and job opportunities for middle class and low-income citizens. The FCC reports on their website that Americans in rural areas reach only 65 percent, while in urban areas reach 97 percent of access to high-speed Internet.[236][237] Public Knowledge has stated that this will have a larger impact on those living in rural areas without internet access.[238] In developing countries like India that don't have reliable electricity or internet connections has only 9 percent of those living in rural areas that have internet access compared to 64 percent of those in urban areas that have access.[239]

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External links edit

  • Battle for the Net – website which allows users to effectively fight for net neutrality, by Fight for the Future
  • Technological Neutrality and Conceptual Singularity
  • Why Consumers Should Be Worried About Net Neutrality
  • Killerswitch – film advocating in favor of Net Neutrality
  • La Quadrature du Net – complex dossier and links about net neutrality
  • "Dear Senator Ted Cruz, I'm going to explain to you how Net Neutrality ACTUALLY works". The Oatmeal. – letter with good references and comic-style illustrations, including a chart of the effects of the Netflix and Comcast incident
  • Net Neutrality – What it is and why you should care. – comic explaining net neutrality.
  • History of Deep Packet Inspection (DPI) 4 March 2016 at the Wayback Machine (PDF)
  • Killing Net Neutrality Has Brought On a New Call for Public Broadband. The Intercept. 15 December 2017.

neutrality, neutrality, redirects, here, episode, last, week, tonight, neutrality, last, week, tonight, with, john, oliver, this, article, multiple, issues, please, help, improve, discuss, these, issues, talk, page, learn, when, remove, these, template, messag. Net Neutrality redirects here For the episode of Last Week Tonight see Net Neutrality Last Week Tonight with John Oliver This article has multiple issues Please help improve it or discuss these issues on the talk page Learn how and when to remove these template messages This article s tone or style may not reflect the encyclopedic tone used on Wikipedia See Wikipedia s guide to writing better articles for suggestions November 2021 Learn how and when to remove this template message This article may be too long to read and navigate comfortably Please consider splitting content into sub articles condensing it or adding subheadings Please discuss this issue on the article s talk page November 2021 Learn how and when to remove this template message Network neutrality often referred to as net neutrality is the principle that Internet service providers ISPs must treat all Internet communications equally offering users and online content providers consistent rates irrespective of content website platform application type of equipment source address destination address or method of communication i e without price discrimination 4 5 Portuguese Internet service provider MEO offers smartphone contracts with monthly data limits and sells additional monthly packages for particular data services 1 Critics of EU net neutrality rules say loopholes allow data for different services to be sold under zero rating exceptions to data limits 2 Consumer advocates of net neutrality have cited this pricing model as an illustration of Internet access with weak net neutrality protection 3 Supporters of net neutrality argue that it prevents ISPs from filtering Internet content without a court order fosters freedom of speech and democratic participation promotes competition and innovation prevents dubious services maintains the end to end principle and that users would be intolerant of slow loading websites Opponents of net neutrality argue that it reduces investment deters competition increases taxes imposes unnecessary regulations prevents the Internet from being accessible to poor people prevents Internet traffic from being allocated to the most needed users that large ISPs already have a performance advantage over smaller providers and that there is already significant competition among ISPs with few competitive issues Contents 1 Etymology 2 Regulatory considerations 3 Regional considerations 4 Definition and related principles 4 1 Internet neutrality 4 2 Open Internet 4 3 Dumb pipe 4 4 End to end principle 4 5 Traffic shaping 4 6 Over provisioning 4 7 Device neutrality 4 8 Invoicing and tariffs 4 9 Alternative networks 5 Issues 5 1 Discrimination by protocol 5 2 Discrimination by Internet Protocol IP Address 5 3 Favoring private networks 5 4 Peering discrimination 5 5 Favoring fast loading websites 6 Legal aspects 7 By country 7 1 United States 7 2 Canada 7 3 India 7 4 China 7 5 Philippines 8 Support 8 1 Control of data 8 2 Digital rights and freedoms 8 3 User intolerance for slow loading sites 8 4 Competition and innovation 8 5 Preserving Internet standards 8 6 End to end principle 9 Criticism 9 1 Reduction in investment 9 2 Significant and growing competition investment 9 3 Deterring competition 9 4 Counterweight to server side non neutrality 9 5 Potentially increased taxes 9 6 Unnecessary regulations 9 7 Inability to make the Internet accessible to the poor 9 8 Inability to allocate Internet traffic efficiently 10 Related issues 10 1 Data discrimination 10 2 Content caching 10 3 Quality of service 10 4 Wireless networks 10 5 Pricing models 10 6 Reactions to removing net neutrality in the US 10 7 Rural digital divide 11 See also 12 References 13 External linksEtymology editThe term was coined by Columbia University media law professor Tim Wu in 2003 as an extension of the longstanding concept of a common carrier which was used to describe the role of telephone systems 6 7 8 9 Regulatory considerations editNet neutrality regulations may be referred to as uncommon carrier regulations 10 11 Net neutrality does not block all abilities that ISPs have to impact their customers services Opt in and opt out services exist on the end user side and filtering can be done locally as in the filtering of sensitive material for minors 12 Research suggests that a combination of policy instruments can help realize the range of valued political and economic objectives central to the network neutrality debate 13 Combined with public opinion this has led some governments to regulate broadband Internet services as a public utility similar to the way electricity gas and the water supply are regulated along with limiting providers and regulating the options those providers can offer 14 Proponents of net neutrality which include computer science experts consumer advocates human rights organizations and Internet content providers assert that net neutrality helps to provide freedom of information exchange promotes competition and innovation for Internet services and upholds standardization of Internet data transmission which was essential for its growth citation needed Opponents of net neutrality which include ISPs computer hardware manufacturers economists technologists and telecommunications equipment manufacturers argue that net neutrality requirements would reduce their incentive to build out the Internet and reduce competition in the marketplace and may raise their operating costs which they would have to pass along to their users citation needed Regional considerations editNet neutrality is administered on a national or regional basis though much of the world s focus has been on the conflict over net neutrality in the United States Net neutrality in the US has been a topic since the early 1990s as they were one of the world leaders in providing online services However they face the same problems as the rest of the world In 2019 the Save the Internet Act to guarantee broadband internet users equal access to online content was passed by the US House of Representatives 15 but not by the US Senate Finding an appropriate solution by creating more regulations for ISPs has been a major work in progress Net neutrality rules were repealed in the US in 2017 during the Trump administration and subsequent appeals have upheld the ruling 16 Definition and related principles editInternet neutrality edit Network neutrality is the principle that all Internet traffic should be treated equally 17 Internet traffic includes all of the different messages files and data sent over the Internet including emails digital audio files digital video files and torrents According to Columbia Law School professor Tim Wu a public information network will be most useful if all content websites and platforms e g mobile devices video game consoles etc are treated equally 18 which is the principle of network neutrality Net neutrality is the principle that an ISP has to provide access to all sites content and applications at the same speed under the same conditions without blocking or giving preference to any content Under net neutrality whether a user connects to Netflix Internet Archive or a blog their ISP must treat them all the same 19 Without net neutrality an ISP can decide what information users are exposed to and charge content providers to stream their content 20 Open Internet edit Under an open Internet system the full resources of the Internet and means to operate on it should be easily accessible to all individuals companies and organizations 21 Applicable concepts include net neutrality open standards transparency lack of Internet censorship and low barriers to entry The concept of the open Internet is sometimes expressed as an expectation of decentralized technological power and is seen by some observers as closely related to open source software a type of software program whose maker allows users access to the code that runs the program so that users can improve the software or fix bugs 22 Proponents of net neutrality see neutrality as an important component of an open Internet wherein policies such as equal treatment of data and open web standards allow those using the Internet to easily communicate and conduct business and activities without interference from a third party 23 In contrast a closed Internet refers to the opposite situation wherein established persons corporations or governments favor certain uses restrict access to necessary web standards artificially degrade some services or explicitly filter out content Some countries such as Thailand block certain websites or types of sites and monitor and or censor Internet use using Internet police a specialized type of law enforcement or secret police 24 Other countries such as Russia 25 China 26 and North Korea 27 also use similar tactics to Thailand in order to control the variety of internet media within their respective countries In comparison to the United States or Canada for example these countries have far more restrictive internet service providers This approach is reminiscent of a Closed Platform system as both ideas are highly similar 28 These systems all serve to hinder access to a wide variety of internet service which is a stark contrast to the idea of an open Internet system Dumb pipe edit The term dumb pipe was coined in the early 1990s and refers to water pipes used in a city water supply system In theory these pipes provide a steady and reliable source of water to every household without discrimination In other words it connects the user with the source without any intelligence or decrement Similarly a dumb network is a network with little or no control or management of its use patterns 29 In a dumb network the endpoints are thought to be where the intelligence lies and as such proponents argue that the network should leave the management and operation of communications and data transfer to the end users not a government bureau or Internet company citation needed In 2013 the software company MetroTech Net Inc MTN coined the term dumb wave which is the 2010s era application of the dumb pipe concept to the ubiquitous wireless network citation needed Experts in the high technology field will often compare the dumb pipe concept with intelligent networks also known as smart pipes and debate which one is best applied to a certain portion of Internet policy These conversations usually refer to these two concepts as being analogous to the concepts of open and closed Internet respectively 30 As such certain models have been made that aim to outline four layers of the Internet with the understanding of the dumb pipe theory Content Layer Contains services such as communication as well as entertainment videos and music Applications Layer Contains services such as e mail and web browsers Logical Layer also called the Code Layer Contains various Internet protocols such as TCP IP and HTTP Physical Layer Consists of services that provide all others such as cable or wireless connections 30 End to end principle edit The end to end principle of network design was first laid out in the 1981 paper End to end arguments in system design by Jerome H Saltzer David P Reed and David D Clark The principle states that whenever possible communications protocol operations should be defined to occur at the end points of a communications system or as close as possible to the resources being controlled According to the end to end principle protocol features are only justified in the lower layers of a system if they are a performance optimization hence TCP retransmission for reliability is still justified but efforts to improve TCP reliability should stop after peak performance has been reached They argued that reliable systems tend to require end to end processing to operate correctly in addition to any processing in the intermediate system They pointed out that most features in the lowest level of a communications system have costs for all higher layer clients even if those clients do not need the features and are redundant if the clients have to re implement the features on an end to end basis This leads to the model of a minimal dumb network with smart terminals a completely different model from the previous paradigm of the smart network with dumb terminals Because the end to end principle is one of the central design principles of the Internet and because the practical means for implementing data discrimination violate the end to end principle the principle often enters discussions about net neutrality The end to end principle is closely related and sometimes seen as a direct precursor to the principle of net neutrality 31 Traffic shaping edit Traffic shaping is the control of computer network traffic to optimize or guarantee performance improve latency i e decrease Internet response times and or increase usable bandwidth by delaying packets that meet certain criteria 32 In practice traffic shaping is often accomplished by throttling certain types of data such as streaming video or P2P file sharing More specifically traffic shaping is any action on a set of packets often called a stream or a flow that imposes additional delay on those packets such that they conform to some predetermined constraint a contract or traffic profile 33 Traffic shaping provides a means to control the volume of traffic being sent into a network in a specified period bandwidth throttling or the maximum rate at which the traffic is sent rate limiting or more complex criteria such as generic cell rate algorithm Over provisioning edit If the core of a network has more bandwidth than is permitted to enter at the edges then good quality of service QoS can be obtained without policing or throttling For example telephone networks employ admission control to limit user demand on the network core by refusing to create a circuit for the requested connection During a natural disaster for example most users will get a circuit busy signal if they try to make a call as the phone company prioritizes emergency calls Over provisioning is a form of statistical multiplexing that makes liberal estimates of peak user demand Over provisioning is used in private networks such as WebEx and the Internet 2 Abilene Network an American university network David Isenberg believes that continued over provisioning will always provide more capacity for less expense than QoS and deep packet inspection technologies 34 35 Device neutrality edit Device neutrality is the principle that in order to ensure freedom of choice and freedom of communication for users of network connected devices it is not sufficient that network operators do not interfere with their choices and activities users must be free to use applications of their choice and hence remove the applications they do not want It can be defined with the following analogy to network neutrality Network neutrality Neutrality principles are codified ex ante and a judicial route is available for redress Connectivity providers can implement traffic management but the rules must be the same for everyone The antitrust alternative takes more time and offers few precedents Device neutrality Similarly neutrality principles are codified ex ante and avail judicial remedies Device vendors can establish policies for managing applications but they too must be applied neutrally An unsuccessful bill to enforce network and device neutrality was introduced in Italy in 2015 by Hon Stefano Quintarelli 36 The law gained formal support at the European Commission 37 by BEUC the European Consumer Organisation the Electronic Frontier Foundation and the Hermes Center for Transparency and digital human rights A similar law was enacted in South Korea 38 Similar principles were proposed in China 39 The French telecoms regulator ARCEP has called for the introduction of Device Neutrality in Europe 40 The principle has been incorporated in the EU s Digital Markets Act Articles 6 3 an 6 4 41 Invoicing and tariffs edit ISPs have the possibility to choose a balance between a base subscription tariff monthly bundle and a pay per use pay by MB metering The ISP sets an upper monthly threshold on data usage just to be able to provide an equal share amongst customers and a fair use guarantee This is generally not considered to be an intrusion but rather allows for a commercial positioning amongst ISPs Alternative networks edit Some networks like public Wi Fi can take traffic away from conventional fixed or mobile network providers This can significantly change the end to end behaviour performance tariffs Issues editDiscrimination by protocol edit Discrimination by protocol is the favouring or blocking of information based on aspects of the communications protocol that the computers are using to communicate 42 In the US a complaint was filed with the Federal Communications Commission against the cable provider Comcast alleging they had illegally inhibited users of its high speed Internet service from using the popular file sharing software BitTorrent 43 Comcast admitted no wrongdoing 44 in its proposed settlement of up to US 16 dollars per share in December 2009 45 However a U S appeals court ruled in April 2010 that the FCC exceeded its authority when it sanctioned Comcast in 2008 for deliberately preventing some subscribers from using peer to peer file sharing services to download large files However the FCC spokeswoman Jen Howard responded the court in no way disagreed with the importance of preserving a free and open Internet nor did it close the door to other methods for achieving this important end 46 Despite the ruling in favour of Comcast a study by Measurement Lab in October 2011 verified that Comcast had virtually stopped its BitTorrent throttling practices 47 48 Discrimination by Internet Protocol IP Address edit See also IP address blocking and Deep packet inspection During the 1990s creating a non neutral Internet was technically infeasible 49 Originally developed to filter harmful malware the Internet security company NetScreen Technologies released network firewalls in 2003 with so called deep packet inspection capabilities Deep packet inspection helped make real time discrimination between different kinds of data possible 50 and is often used for Internet censorship In a practice called zero rating companies will not invoice data use related to certain IP addresses favoring use of those services Examples include Facebook Zero 51 Wikipedia Zero and Google Free Zone These zero rating practices are especially common in the developing world 52 Sometimes Internet Service Providers ISPs will charge some companies but not others for the traffic they cause on the ISP s network French telecom operator Orange complaining that traffic from YouTube and other Google sites consist of roughly 50 of total traffic on the Orange network made a deal with Google in which they charge Google for the traffic incurred on the Orange network 53 Some also thought that Orange s rival ISP Free throttled YouTube traffic However an investigation done by the French telecommunications regulatory body revealed that the network was simply congested during peak hours 54 Aside from the zero rating method ISPs will also use certain strategies to reduce the costs of pricing plans such as the use of sponsored data In a scenario where a sponsored data plan is used a third party will step in and pay for all the content that it or the carrier or consumer does not want around This is generally used as a way for ISPs to remove out of pocket costs from subscribers 55 One of the criticisms regarding discrimination is that the system set up by ISPs for this purpose is capable of not only discriminating but also scrutinizing full packet content of communications For instance deep packet inspection technology installs intelligence within the lower layers in the work to discover and identify the source type and destination of packets revealing information about packets traveling in the physical infrastructure so it can dictate the quality of transport such packets will receive 56 This is seen as an architecture of surveillance one that can be shared with intelligence agencies copyrighted content owners and civil litigants exposing the users secrets in the process 57 Favoring private networks edit Proponents of net neutrality argue that without new regulations Internet service providers would be able to profit from and favor their own private protocols over others The argument for net neutrality is that ISPs would be able to pick and choose who they offer a greater bandwidth to If one website or company is able to afford more they will go with them This especially stifles private up and coming businesses ISPs are able to encourage the use of specific services by using private networks to discriminate what data is counted against bandwidth caps For example Comcast struck a deal with Microsoft that allowed users to stream television through the Xfinity app on their Xbox 360s without it affecting their bandwidth limit However utilizing other television streaming apps such as Netflix HBO Go and Hulu counted towards the limit Comcast denied that this infringed on net neutrality principles since it runs its Xfinity for Xbox service on its own private Internet protocol network 58 In 2009 when AT amp T was bundling iPhone 3G with its 3G network service the company placed restrictions on which iPhone applications could run on its network 59 According to proponents of net neutrality this capitalization on which content producers ISPs can favor would ultimately lead to fragmentation where some ISPs would have certain content that is not necessarily present in the networks offered by other ISPs The danger behind fragmentation as viewed by proponents of net neutrality is the concept that there could be multiple Internets where some ISPs offer exclusive internet applications or services or make it more difficult to gain access to internet content that may be more easily viewable through other internet service providers An example of a fragmented service would be television where some cable providers offer exclusive media from certain content providers 60 However in theory allowing ISPs to favor certain content and private networks would overall improve internet services since they would be able to recognize packets of information that are more time sensitive and prioritize that over packets that are not as sensitive to latency The issue as explained by Robin S Lee and Tim Wu is that there are literally too many ISPs and internet content providers around the world to reach an agreement on how to standardize that prioritization A proposed solution would be to allow all online content to be accessed and transferred freely while simultaneously offering a fast lane for a preferred service that does not discriminate on the content provider 60 Peering discrimination edit There is disagreement about whether peering is a net neutrality issue 61 In the first quarter of 2014 streaming website Netflix reached an arrangement with ISP Comcast to improve the quality of its service to Netflix clients 62 This arrangement was made in response to increasingly slow connection speeds through Comcast over the course of 2013 where average speeds dropped by over 25 of their values a year before to an all time low After the deal was struck in January 2014 the Netflix speed index recorded a 66 increase in connection Netflix agreed to a similar deal with Verizon in 2014 after Verizon DSL customers connection speed dropped to less than 1 Mbit s early in the year Netflix spoke out against this deal with a controversial statement delivered to all Verizon customers experiencing low connection speeds using the Netflix client 63 This sparked an internal debate between the two companies that led to Verizon s obtaining a cease and desist order on 5 June 2014 that forced Netflix to stop displaying this message Favoring fast loading websites edit Pro net neutrality arguments have also noted that regulations are necessary due to research showing low tolerance to slow loading content providers In a 2009 research study conducted by Forrester Research online shoppers expected the web pages they visited to download content instantly 64 When a page fails to load at the expected speed many of them simply click out A study found that even a one second delay could lead to 11 fewer page views a 16 decrease in customer satisfaction and 7 loss in conversions 65 This delay can cause a severe problem to small innovators who have created new technology If a website is slow by default the general public will lose interest and favor a website that runs faster This helps large corporate companies maintain power because they have the means to fund faster Internet speeds 66 On the other hand smaller competitors have less financial capabilities making it harder for them to succeed in the online world 67 Legal aspects editMain article Net neutrality law Legal enforcement of net neutrality principles takes a variety of forms from provisions that outlaw anti competitive blocking and throttling of Internet services all the way to legal enforcement that prevents companies from subsidizing Internet use on particular sites 68 Contrary to popular rhetoric and statements by various individuals involved in the ongoing academic debate research suggests that a single policy instrument such as a no blocking policy or a quality of service tiering policy cannot achieve the range of valued political and economic objectives central to the debate 13 As Bauer and Obar suggest safeguarding multiple goals requires a combination of instruments that will likely involve government and nongovernment measures Furthermore promoting goals such as the freedom of speech political participation investment and innovation calls for complementary policies 69 By country editMain article Net neutrality by country Governments of countries that comment on net neutrality usually support the concept 70 United States edit Main article Net neutrality in the United States Net neutrality in the United States has been a point of conflict between network users and service providers since the 1990s Much of the conflict over net neutrality arises from how Internet services are classified by the Federal Communications Commission FCC under the authority of the Communications Act of 1934 The FCC would have significant ability to regulate ISPs should Internet services be treated as a Title II common carrier service or otherwise the ISPs would be mostly unrestricted by the FCC if Internet services fell under Title I information services In 2009 the United States Congress passed the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act 2009 which granted a stimulus of 2 88 billion for extending broadband services into certain areas of the United States It was intended to make the internet more accessible for under served areas and aspects of net neutrality and open access were written into the grant However the bill never set any significant precedents for net neutrality or influenced future legislation relating to net neutrality 71 Through 2017 the FCC has generally been favorable towards net neutrality treating ISPs under Title II common carrier With the onset of the Presidency of Donald Trump in 2017 and the appointment of Ajit Pai an opponent of net neutrality to the chairman of the FCC the FCC has reversed many previous net neutrality rulings and reclassified Internet services as Title I information services 72 The FCC s decisions have been a matter of several ongoing legal challenges by both states supporting net neutrality and ISPs challenging it The United States Congress has attempted to pass legislation supporting net neutrality but has failed to gain sufficient support In 2018 a bill cleared the U S Senate with Republicans Lisa Murkowski John Kennedy and Susan Collins joining all 49 Democrats but the House majority denied the bill a hearing 73 Individual states have been trying to pass legislation to make net neutrality a requirement within their state overriding the FCC s decision California has successfully passed its own net neutrality act which the United States Department of Justice challenged on a legal basis 74 On February 8 2021 the U S Justice Department withdrew its challenge to California s data protection law Federal Communications Commission Acting Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel voiced support for an open internet and restoring net neutrality 75 On October 19 2023 the FCC voted 3 2 to approve a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking NPRM that seeks comments on a plan to restore net neutrality rules and regulation of Internet service providers 76 Canada edit Net neutrality in Canada is a debated issue in that nation but not to the degree of partisanship in other nations such as the United States in part because of its federal regulatory structure and pre existing supportive laws that were enacted decades before the debate arose 77 In Canada Internet service providers ISPs generally provide Internet service in a neutral manner Some notable incidents otherwise have included Bell Canada s throttling of certain protocols and Telus s censorship of a specific website supporting striking union members 78 In the case with Bell Canada the debate for net neutrality became a more popular topic when it was revealed that they were throttling traffic by limiting people s accessibility to view Canada s Next Great Prime Minister which eventually led to the Canadian Association of Internet Providers CAIP demanding the Canadian Radio Television and Telecommunications Commission CRTC to take action on preventing the throttling of third party traffic 79 On October 22 2009 the CRTC issued a ruling about internet traffic management which favored adopting guidelines that were suggested by interest groups such as OpenMedia ca and the Open Internet Coalition However the guidelines set in place require citizens to file formal complaints proving that their internet traffic is being throttled and as a result some ISPs still continue to throttle the internet traffic of their users 79 India edit Main article Net neutrality in India In the year 2018 the Indian Government unanimously approved new regulations supporting net neutrality The regulations are considered to be the world s strongest net neutrality rules guaranteeing free and open Internet for nearly half a billion people 80 and are expected to help the culture of startups and innovation The only exceptions to the rules are new and emerging services like autonomous driving and tele medicine which may require prioritized internet lanes and faster than normal speeds 81 China edit Net neutrality in China is not enforced and ISPs in China play important roles in regulating the content that is available domestically on the internet There are several ISPs filtering and blocking content at the national level preventing domestic internet users from accessing certain sites or services or foreign internet users from gaining access to domestic web content This filtering technology is referred to as the Great Firewall or GFW 82 In an article published by the Cambridge University Press they observed the political environment with net neutrality in China Chinese ISPs have become a way for the country to control and restrict information rather than providing neutral internet content for those who use the internet 83 Philippines edit Telecommunications providers do not follow net neutrality in the Philippines the country which spends the most time on the Internet and Social Media per day 84 85 Telcos offer data package promos that have turned the Philippines into a balkanized commercial splinternet by giving certain free zero rated data allocations of branded corporate platform services like social media Facebook Instagram Twitter TikTok video YouTube Netflix HBO Go gaming Mobile Legends Clash of Clans PUBG Call of Duty shopping Lazada Zalora Shopee and communications Zoom Viber WhatsApp thus steering subscribers towards using the telcos preferred partnered services 86 87 88 In the mid 2010s Philippine telcos came under fire from the Department of Justice for throttling the bandwidth of subscribers of unlimited data plans if the subscribers exceeded arbitrary data caps imposed by the telcos under a supposed fair use policy on their unlimited plans 89 Certain adult sites like Pornhub Redtube and XTube have also been blocked by some Philippine ISPs at the request of the Philippine National Police to the National Telecommunications Commission even without the necessary court orders required by the Supreme Court of the Philippines 90 Support editThe examples and perspective in this section deal primarily with the United States and do not represent a worldwide view of the subject You may improve this section discuss the issue on the talk page or create a new section as appropriate October 2017 Learn how and when to remove this template message Proponents of net neutrality regulations include consumer advocates human rights organizations such as Article 19 91 online companies and some technology companies 92 Net neutrality tends to be supported by those on the political left while opposed by those on the political right 93 Many major Internet application companies are advocates of neutrality Yahoo Vonage 94 eBay Amazon 95 IAC InterActiveCorp Microsoft Reddit Twitter Tumblr Etsy Daily Kos Greenpeace The Open Society Foundation 96 along with many other companies and organizations have also taken a stance in support of net neutrality 97 98 Cogent Communications an international Internet service provider has made an announcement in favor of certain net neutrality policies 99 In September 2014 there was an online Internet Slowdown protest for the equal treatment of internet traffic in which large companies such as Netflix and Reddit have participated in 100 In 2008 Google published a statement speaking out against letting broadband providers abuse their market power to affect access to competing applications or content They further equated the situation to that of the telephony market where telephone companies are not allowed to control who their customers call or what those customers are allowed to say 9 However Google s support of net neutrality was called into question in 2014 101 Several civil rights groups such as the ACLU the Electronic Frontier Foundation Free Press SaveTheInternet and Fight for the Future support net neutrality 102 100 Individuals who support net neutrality include World Wide Web inventor Tim Berners Lee 103 Vinton Cerf 104 105 Lawrence Lessig 106 Robert W McChesney 107 Steve Wozniak Susan P Crawford Marvin Ammori Ben Scott David Reed 108 and former U S President Barack Obama 109 110 On 10 November 2014 Obama recommended that the FCC reclassify broadband Internet service as a telecommunications service in order to preserve net neutrality 111 112 113 On 31 January 2015 AP News reported that the FCC will present the notion of applying with some caveats Title II common carrier of the Communications Act of 1934 and section 706 of the Telecommunications act of 1996 114 to the Internet in a vote expected on 26 February 2015 115 116 117 118 119 Control of data edit Supporters of net neutrality in the United States want to designate cable companies as common carriers which would require them to allow Internet service providers ISPs free access to cable lines the same model used for dial up Internet They want to ensure that cable companies cannot screen interrupt or filter Internet content without a court order 120 Common carrier status would give the FCC the power to enforce net neutrality rules 121 SaveTheInternet com accuses cable and telecommunications companies of wanting the role of gatekeepers being able to control which websites load quickly load slowly or do not load at all According to SaveTheInternet com these companies want to charge content providers who require guaranteed speedy data delivery to create advantages for their own search engines Internet phone services and streaming video services and slowing access or blocking access to those of competitors 122 Vinton Cerf a co inventor of the Internet Protocol and current vice president of Google argues that the Internet was designed without any authorities controlling access to new content or new services 123 He concludes that the principles responsible for making the Internet such a success would be fundamentally undermined were broadband carriers given the ability to affect what people see and do online 104 Cerf has also written about the importance of looking at problems like Net Neutrality through a combination of the Internet s layered system and the multistakeholder model that governs it 124 He shows how challenges can arise that can implicate Net Neutrality in certain infrastructure based cases such as when ISPs enter into exclusive arrangements with large building owners leaving the residents unable to exercise any choice in broadband provider 125 Digital rights and freedoms edit Proponents of net neutrality argue that a neutral net will foster free speech and lead to further democratic participation on the Internet Former Senator Al Franken from Minnesota fears that without new regulations the major Internet Service Providers will use their position of power to stifle people s rights He calls net neutrality the First Amendment issue of our time 126 The past two decades has been an ongoing battle of ensuring that all people and websites have equal access to an unrestricted platform regardless of their ability to pay proponents of net neutrality wish to prevent the need to pay for speech and the further centralization of media power 127 Lawrence Lessig and Robert W McChesney argue that net neutrality ensures that the Internet remains a free and open technology fostering democratic communication Lessig and McChesney go on to argue that the monopolization of the Internet would stifle the diversity of independent news sources and the generation of innovative and novel web content 106 User intolerance for slow loading sites edit nbsp Users with faster Internet connectivity e g fiber abandon a slow loading video at a faster rate than users with slower Internet connectivity e g cable or mobile 128 Proponents of net neutrality invoke the human psychological process of adaptation where when people get used to something better they would not ever want to go back to something worse In the context of the Internet the proponents argue that a user who gets used to the fast lane on the Internet would find the slow lane intolerable in comparison greatly disadvantaging any provider who is unable to pay for the fast lane Video providers Netflix 129 and Vimeo 130 in their comments to FCC in favor of net neutrality use the research 128 of S S Krishnan and Ramesh Sitaraman that provides the first quantitative evidence of adaptation to speed among online video users Their research studied the patience level of millions of Internet video users who waited for a slow loading video to start playing Users who had faster Internet connectivity such as fiber to the home demonstrated less patience and abandoned their videos sooner than similar users with slower Internet connectivity The results demonstrate how users can get used to faster Internet connectivity leading to higher expectations of Internet speed and lower tolerance for any delay that occurs Author Nicholas Carr 131 and other social commentators 132 133 have written about the habituation phenomenon by stating that a faster flow of information on the Internet can make people less patient Competition and innovation edit Net neutrality advocates argue that allowing cable companies the right to demand a toll to guarantee quality or premium delivery would create an exploitative business model based on the ISPs position as gatekeepers 134 Advocates warn that by charging websites for access network owners may be able to block competitor Web sites and services as well as refuse access to those unable to pay 106 According to Tim Wu cable companies plan to reserve bandwidth for their own television services and charge companies a toll for priority service 135 Proponents of net neutrality argue that allowing for preferential treatment of Internet traffic or tiered service would put newer online companies at a disadvantage and slow innovation in online services 92 Tim Wu argues that without network neutrality the Internet will undergo a transformation from a market ruled by innovation to one ruled by deal making 135 SaveTheInternet com argues that net neutrality puts everyone on equal terms which helps drive innovation They claim it is a preservation of the way the Internet has always operated where the quality of websites and services determined whether they succeeded or failed rather than deals with ISPs 122 Lawrence Lessig and Robert W McChesney argue that eliminating net neutrality would lead to the Internet resembling the world of cable TV so that access to and distribution of content would be managed by a handful of massive near monopolistic companies though there are multiple service providers in each region These companies would then control what is seen as well as how much it costs to see it Speedy and secure Internet use for such industries as healthcare finance retailing and gambling could be subject to large fees charged by these companies They further explain that a majority of the great innovators in the history of the Internet started with little capital in their garages inspired by great ideas This was possible because the protections of net neutrality ensured limited control by owners of the networks maximal competition in this space and permitted innovators from outside access to the network Internet content was guaranteed a free and highly competitive space by the existence of net neutrality 106 For example back in 2005 YouTube was just a small startup company Due to the absence of Internet fast lanes YouTube had the ability to grow larger than Google Video Tom Wheeler and Senators Ronald Lee Wyden D Ore and Al Franken D Minn said Internet service providers treated YouTube s videos the same as they did Google s and Google couldn t pay the ISPs Internet service providers to gain an unfair advantage like a fast lane into consumers homes they wrote Well it turned out that people liked YouTube a lot more than Google Video so YouTube thrived 136 Preserving Internet standards edit Net neutrality advocates have sponsored legislation claiming that authorizing incumbent network providers to override transport and application layer separation on the Internet would signal the decline of fundamental Internet standards and international consensus authority Further the legislation asserts that bit shaping the transport of application data will undermine the transport layer s designed flexibility 137 End to end principle edit Some advocates say network neutrality is needed in order to maintain the end to end principle According to Lawrence Lessig and Robert W McChesney all content must be treated the same and must move at the same speed in order for net neutrality to be true They say that it is this simple but brilliant end to end aspect that has allowed the Internet to act as a powerful force for economic and social good 106 Under this principle a neutral network is a dumb network merely passing packets regardless of the applications they support This point of view was expressed by David S Isenberg in his paper The Rise of the Stupid Network He states that the vision of an intelligent network is being replaced by a new network philosophy and architecture in which the network is designed for always on use not intermittence and scarcity Rather than intelligence being designed into the network itself the intelligence would be pushed out to the end users device and the network would be designed simply to deliver bits without fancy network routing or smart number translation The data would be in control telling the network where it should be sent End user devices would then be allowed to behave flexibly as bits would essentially be free and there would be no assumption that the data is of a single data rate or data type 138 Contrary to this idea the research paper titled End to end arguments in system design by Saltzer Reed and Clark argues that network intelligence does not relieve end systems of the requirement to check inbound data for errors and to rate limit the sender nor for wholesale removal of intelligence from the network core 139 Criticism editOpponents of net neutrality regulations include Internet service providers ISPs broadband and telecommunications companies computer hardware manufacturers economists and notable technologists Many of the major hardware and telecommunications companies specifically oppose the reclassification of broadband as a common carrier under Title II Corporate opponents of this measure include Comcast AT amp T Verizon IBM Intel Cisco Nokia Qualcomm Broadcom Juniper D Link Wintel Alcatel Lucent Corning Panasonic Ericsson Oracle Akamai and others 140 141 142 143 The US Telecom and Broadband Association which represents a diverse array of small and large broadband providers is also an opponent 144 145 Nobel Memorial Prize winning economist Gary Becker s paper titled Net Neutrality and Consumer Welfare published by the Journal of Competition Law amp Economics argues that claims by net neutrality proponents do not provide a compelling rationale for regulation because there is significant and growing competition among broadband access providers 146 147 Google Chairman Eric Schmidt states that while Google views that similar data types should not be discriminated against it is okay to discriminate across different data types a position that both Google and Verizon generally agree on according to Schmidt 148 149 According to the Journal when President Barack Obama announced his support for strong net neutrality rules late in 2014 Schmidt told a top White House official the president was making a mistake Google once strongly advocated net neutrality like rules prior to 2010 but their support for the rules has since diminished the company however still remains committed to net neutrality 149 150 Individuals who oppose net neutrality rules include TCP IP inventor Bob Kahn 151 152 Netscape founder Marc Andreessen 153 Sun Microsystems founder Scott McNealy 154 PayPal founders Peter Thiel and Max Levchin 146 155 Grandfather of the Internet David Farber 156 157 Internet pioneer David Clark 158 159 packet switching pioneer Louis Pouzin 160 MIT Media Lab founder Nicholas Negroponte 161 Nokia s CEO Rajeev Suri 162 VOIP pioneer Jeff Pulver 163 entrepreneur Mark Cuban 164 and former FCC Chairman Ajit Pai Nobel Prize laureate economists who oppose net neutrality rules include Princeton economist Angus Deaton Chicago economist Richard Thaler MIT economist Bengt Holmstrom and the late Chicago economist Gary Becker 165 166 Others include MIT economists David Autor Amy Finkelstein and Richard Schmalensee Stanford economists Raj Chetty Darrell Duffie Caroline Hoxby and Kenneth Judd Harvard economist Alberto Alesina Berkeley economists Alan Auerbach and Emmanuel Saez and Yale economists William Nordhaus Joseph Altonji and Pinelopi Goldberg 165 Several civil rights groups such as the National Urban League Jesse Jackson s Rainbow PUSH and League of United Latin American Citizens also oppose Title II net neutrality regulations 167 who said that the call to regulate broadband Internet service as a utility would harm minority communities by stifling investment in underserved areas 168 169 The Wikimedia Foundation which runs Wikipedia told The Washington Post that it has a complicated relationship with net neutrality 170 The organization partnered with telecommunications companies to provide free access to Wikipedia for people in developing countries under a program called Wikipedia Zero without requiring mobile data to access information The concept is known as zero rating Said Wikimedia Foundation officer Gayle Karen Young Partnering with telecom companies in the near term it blurs the net neutrality line in those areas It fulfills our overall mission though which is providing free knowledge 171 A number of other opponents created Hands Off The Internet 172 a website created in 2006 to promote arguments against Internet regulation Principal financial support for the website came from AT amp T and members included BellSouth Alcatel Cingular and Citizens Against Government Waste 173 174 175 176 177 Robert Pepper a senior managing director of global advanced technology policy at Cisco Systems and former FCC chief of policy development says The supporters of net neutrality regulation believe that more rules are necessary In their view without greater regulation service providers might parcel out bandwidth or services creating a bifurcated world in which the wealthy enjoy first class Internet access while everyone else is left with slow connections and degraded content That scenario however is a false paradigm Such an all or nothing world doesn t exist today nor will it exist in the future Without additional regulation service providers are likely to continue doing what they are doing They will continue to offer a variety of broadband service plans at a variety of price points to suit every type of consumer 178 Computer scientist Bob Kahn 179 has said net neutrality is a slogan that would freeze innovation in the core of the Internet 152 Farber has written and spoken strongly in favor of continued research and development on core Internet protocols He joined academic colleagues Michael Katz Christopher Yoo and Gerald Faulhaber in an op ed for The Washington Post strongly critical of network neutrality essentially stating that while the Internet is in need of remodeling congressional action aimed at protecting the best parts of the current Internet could interfere with efforts to build a replacement 180 Reduction in investment edit According to a letter to FCC commissioners and key congressional leaders sent by 60 major ISP technology suppliers including IBM Intel Qualcomm and Cisco Title II regulation of the Internet means that instead of billions of broadband investment driving other sectors of the economy forward any reduction in this spending will stifle growth across the entire economy This is not idle speculation or fear mongering Title II is going to lead to a slowdown if not a hold in broadband build out because if you don t know that you can recover on your investment you won t make it 140 181 182 183 According to the Wall Street Journal in one of Google s few lobbying sessions with FCC officials the company urged the agency to craft rules that encourage investment in broadband Internet networks a position that mirrors the argument made by opponents of strong net neutrality rules such as AT amp T and Comcast 149 Opponents of net neutrality argue that prioritization of bandwidth is necessary for future innovation on the Internet 142 Telecommunications providers such as telephone and cable companies and some technology companies that supply networking gear argue telecom providers should have the ability to provide preferential treatment in the form of tiered services for example by giving online companies willing to pay the ability to transfer their data packets faster than other Internet traffic 184 The added income from such services could be used to pay for the building of increased broadband access to more consumers 92 Opponents say that net neutrality would make it more difficult for Internet service providers ISPs and other network operators to recoup their investments in broadband networks 185 John Thorne senior vice president and deputy general counsel of Verizon a broadband and telecommunications company has argued that they will have no incentive to make large investments to develop advanced fibre optic networks if they are prohibited from charging higher preferred access fees to companies that wish to take advantage of the expanded capabilities of such networks Thorne and other ISPs have accused Google and Skype of freeloading or free riding for using a network of lines and cables the phone company spent billions of dollars to build 142 186 187 Marc Andreessen states that a pure net neutrality view is difficult to sustain if you also want to have continued investment in broadband networks If you re a large telco right now you spend on the order of 20 billion a year on capex capital expenditure You need to know how you re going to get a return on that investment If you have these pure net neutrality rules where you can never charge a company like Netflix anything you re not ever going to get a return on continued network investment which means you ll stop investing in the network And I would not want to be sitting here 10 or 20 years from now with the same broadband speeds we re getting today 188 Proponents of net neutrality regulations say network operators have continued to under invest in infrastructure 189 However according to Copenhagen Economics U S investment in telecom infrastructure is 50 percent higher than in the European Union As a share of GDP the United States broadband investment rate per GDP trails only the UK and South Korea slightly but exceeds Japan Canada Italy Germany and France sizably 190 On broadband speed Akamai reported that the US trails only South Korea and Japan among its major trading partners and trails only Japan in the G 7 in both average peak connection speed and percentage of the population connection at 10 Mbit s or higher but are substantially ahead of most of its other major trading partners 190 The White House reported in June 2013 that U S connection speeds are the fastest compared to other countries with either a similar population or land mass 191 Akamai s report on The State of the Internet in the 2nd quarter of 2014 says a total of 39 states saw 4K readiness rate more than double over the past year In other words as ZDNet reports those states saw a major increase in the availability of the 15 Mbit s speed needed for 4K video 192 According to the Progressive Policy Institute and ITU data the United States has the most affordable entry level prices for fixed broadband in the OECD 190 193 In Indonesia there is a very high number of Internet connections that are subject to exclusive deals between the ISP and the building owner and changing this dynamic could unlock much more consumer choices and higher speeds 125 FCC Commissioner Ajit Pai and Federal Election Commission s Lee Goldman wrote in a Politico piece in February 2015 Compare Europe which has long had utility style regulations with the United States which has embraced a light touch regulatory model Broadband speeds in the United States both wired and wireless are significantly faster than those in Europe Broadband investment in the United States is several multiples that of Europe And broadband s reach is much wider in the United States despite its much lower population density 194 VOIP pioneer Jeff Pulver states that the uncertainty of the FCC imposing Title II which experts said would create regulatory restrictions on using the Internet to transmit a voice call was the single greatest impediment to innovation for a decade 195 According to Pulver investors in the companies he helped found like Vonage held back investment because they feared the FCC could use Title II to prevent VOIP startups from bypassing telephone networks 195 Significant and growing competition investment edit A 2010 paper on net neutrality by Nobel Prize economist Gary Becker and his colleagues stated that there is significant and growing competition among broadband access providers and that few significant competitive problems have been observed to date suggesting that there is no compelling competitive rationale for such regulation 147 Becker and fellow economists Dennis Carlton and Hal Sidler found that Between mid 2002 and mid 2008 the number of high speed broadband access lines in the United States grew from 16 million to nearly 133 million and the number of residential broadband lines grew from 14 million to nearly 80 million Internet traffic roughly tripled between 2007 and 2009 At the same time prices for broadband Internet access services have fallen sharply 147 The PPI reports that the profit margins of U S broadband providers are generally one sixth to one eighth of companies that use broadband such as Apple or Google contradicting the idea of monopolistic price gouging by providers 190 When FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler redefined broadband from 4 Mbit s to 25 Mbit s 3 125 MB s or greater in January 2015 FCC commissioners Ajit Pai and Mike O Reilly believed the redefinition was to set up the agency s intent to settle the net neutrality fight with new regulations The commissioners argued that the stricter speed guidelines painted the broadband industry as less competitive justifying the FCC s moves with Title II net neutrality regulations 196 A report by the Progressive Policy Institute in June 2014 argues that nearly every American can choose from at least 2 4 broadband Internet service providers despite claims that there are only a small number of broadband providers 190 Citing research from the FCC the Institute wrote that 90 percent of American households have access to at least one wired and one wireless broadband provider at speeds of at least 4 Mbit s 500 kbyte s downstream and 1 Mbit s 125 kbyte s upstream and that nearly 88 percent of Americans can choose from at least two wired providers of broadband disregarding speed typically choosing between a cable and telco offering Further three of the four national wireless companies report that they offer 4G LTE to 250 300 million Americans with the fourth T Mobile sitting at 209 million and counting 190 Similarly the FCC reported in June 2008 that 99 8 of ZIP codes in the United States had two or more providers of high speed Internet lines available and 94 6 of ZIP codes had four or more providers as reported by University of Chicago economists Gary Becker Dennis Carlton and Hal Sider in a 2010 paper 147 Deterring competition edit FCC commissioner Ajit Pai states that the FCC completely brushes away the concerns of smaller competitors who are going to be subject to various taxes such as state property taxes and general receipts taxes 197 As a result according to Pai that does nothing to create more competition within the market 197 According to Pai the FCC s ruling to impose Title II regulations is opposed by the country s smallest private competitors and many municipal broadband providers 198 In his dissent Pai noted that 142 wireless ISPs WISPs said that FCC s new regulatory intrusion into our businesses would likely force us to raise prices delay deployment expansion or both He also noted that 24 of the country s smallest ISPs each with fewer than 1 000 residential broadband customers wrote to the FCC stating that Title II will badly strain our limited resources because they have no in house attorneys and no budget line items for outside counsel Further another 43 municipal broadband providers told the FCC that Title II will trigger consequences beyond the Commission s control and risk serious harm to our ability to fund and deploy broadband without bringing any concrete benefit for consumers or edge providers that the market is not already proving today without the aid of any additional regulation 141 According to a Wired magazine article by TechFreedom s Berin Szoka Matthew Starr and Jon Henke local governments and public utilities impose the most significant barriers to entry for more cable broadband competition While popular arguments focus on supposed monopolists such as big cable companies it s government that s really to blame The authors state that local governments and their public utilities charge ISPs far more than they actually cost and have the final say on whether an ISP can build a network The public officials determine what requirements an ISP must meet to get approval for access to publicly owned rights of way which lets them place their wires thus reducing the number of potential competitors who can profitably deploy Internet services such as AT amp T s U Verse Google Fiber and Verizon FiOS Kickbacks may include municipal requirements for ISPs such as building out service where it is not demanded donating equipment and delivering free broadband to government buildings 199 According to a research article from MIS Quarterly the authors stated their findings subvert some of the expectations of how ISPs and CPs act regarding net neutrality laws The paper shows that even if an ISP is under restrictions it still has the opportunity and the incentive to act as a gatekeeper over CPs by enforcing priority delivery of content 200 Counterweight to server side non neutrality edit Those in favor of forms of non neutral tiered Internet access argue that the Internet is already not a level playing field and that large companies achieve a performance advantage over smaller competitors by providing more and better quality servers and buying high bandwidth services Should scrapping of net neutrality regulations precipitate a price drop for lower levels of access or access to only certain protocols for instance such would make Internet usage more adaptable to the needs of those individuals and corporations who specifically seek differentiated tiers of service Network expert 201 Richard Bennett has written A richly funded Web site which delivers data faster than its competitors to the front porches of the Internet service providers wants it delivered the rest of the way on an equal basis This system which Google calls broadband neutrality actually preserves a more fundamental inequality 202 Potentially increased taxes edit FCC commissioner Ajit Pai who opposed the 2015 Title II reclassification of ISPs says that the ruling allows new fees and taxes on broadband by subjecting them to telephone style taxes under the Universal Service Fund Net neutrality proponent Free Press writes the average potential increase in taxes and fees per household would be far less than the estimate given by net neutrality opponents and that if there were to be additional taxes the tax figure may be around US 4 billion Under favorable circumstances the increase would be exactly zero 203 Meanwhile the Progressive Policy Institute claims that Title II could trigger taxes and fees up to 11 billion a year 204 Financial website Nerd Wallet did their own assessment and settled on a possible US 6 25 billion tax impact estimating that the average American household may see their tax bill increase US 67 annually 204 FCC spokesperson Kim Hart said that the ruling does not raise taxes or fees Period 204 Unnecessary regulations edit According to PayPal founder and Facebook investor Peter Thiel in 2011 Net neutrality has not been necessary to date I don t see any reason why it s suddenly become important when the Internet has functioned quite well for the past 15 years without it Government attempts to regulate technology have been extraordinarily counterproductive in the past 146 Max Levchin the other co founder of PayPal echoed similar statements telling CNBC The Internet is not broken and it got here without government regulation and probably in part because of lack of government regulation 205 FCC Commissioner Ajit Pai who was one of the two commissioners who opposed the net neutrality proposal criticized the FCC s ruling on Internet neutrality stating that the perceived threats from ISPs to deceive consumers degrade content or disfavor the content that they dislike are non existent The evidence of these continuing threats There is none it s all anecdote hypothesis and hysteria A small ISP in North Carolina allegedly blocked VoIP calls a decade ago Comcast capped BitTorrent traffic to ease upload congestion eight years ago Apple introduced Facetime over Wi Fi first cellular networks later FCC Chairman Pai wants to switch ISP rules from proactive restrictions to after the fact litigation which means a lot more leeway for ISPs that don t particularly want to be treated as impartial utilities connecting people to the internet Atherton 2017 20 Examples this picayune and stale aren t enough to tell a coherent story about net neutrality The bogeyman never had it so easy 141 FCC Commissioner Mike O Reilly the other opposing commissioner also claims that the ruling is a solution to a hypothetical problem Even after enduring three weeks of spin it is hard for me to believe that the Commission is establishing an entire Title II net neutrality regime to protect against hypothetical harms There is not a shred of evidence that any aspect of this structure is necessary The D C Circuit called the prior scaled down version a prophylactic approach I call it guilt by imagination citation needed In a Chicago Tribune article FCC Commissioner Pai and Joshua Wright of the Federal Trade Commission argue that the Internet isn t broken and we don t need the president s plan to fix it Quite the opposite The Internet is an unparalleled success story It is a free open and thriving platform 206 Inability to make the Internet accessible to the poor edit Opponents argue that net neutrality regulations prevent service providers from providing more affordable Internet access to those who can t afford it 168 A concept known as zero rating ISPs would be unable to provide Internet access for free or at a reduced cost to the poor under net neutrality rules 207 168 For example low income users who can t afford bandwidth hogging Internet services such as video streams could be exempted from paying through subsidies or advertising 168 However under the rules ISPs would not be able to discriminate traffic thus forcing low income users to pay for high bandwidth usage like other users 207 The Wikimedia Foundation which runs Wikipedia created Wikipedia Zero to provide Wikipedia free of charge on mobile phones to low income users especially those in developing countries However the practice violates net neutrality rules as traffic would have to be treated equally regardless of the users ability to pay 168 208 In 2014 Chile banned the practice of Internet service providers giving users free access to websites like Wikipedia and Facebook saying the practice violates net neutrality rules 209 In 2016 India banned Internet org s Free Basics application which provides users in less developed countries with free access to a variety of websites like Wikipedia BBC Dictionary com health sites Facebook ESPN and weather reports ruling that the initiative violated net neutrality 210 Inability to allocate Internet traffic efficiently edit Net neutrality rules would prevent traffic from being allocated to the most needed users according to Internet Pioneer David Farber 180 Because net neutrality regulations prevent a discrimination of traffic networks would have to treat critical traffic equally with non critical traffic According to Farber When traffic surges beyond the ability of the network to carry it something is going to be delayed When choosing what gets delayed it makes sense to allow a network to favor traffic from say a patient s heart monitor over traffic delivering a music download It also makes sense to allow network operators to restrict traffic that is downright harmful such as viruses worms and spam 180 Related issues editData discrimination edit Main article Data discrimination Tim Wu though a proponent of network neutrality claims that the current Internet is not neutral as its implementation of best effort generally favors file transfer and other non time sensitive traffic over real time communications 211 Generally a network which blocks some nodes or services for the customers of the network would normally be expected to be less useful to the customers than one that did not Therefore for a network to remain significantly non neutral requires either that the customers not be concerned about the particular non neutralities or the customers not have any meaningful choice of providers otherwise they would presumably switch to another provider with fewer restrictions citation needed While the network neutrality debate continues network providers often enter into peering arrangements among themselves These agreements often stipulate how certain information flows should be treated In addition network providers often implement various policies such as blocking of port 25 to prevent insecure systems from serving as spam relays or other ports commonly used by decentralized music search applications implementing peer to peer networking models They also present terms of service that often include rules about the use of certain applications as part of their contracts with users citation needed Most consumer Internet providers implement policies like these The MIT Mantid Port Blocking Measurement Project is a measurement effort to characterize Internet port blocking and potentially discriminatory practices However the effect of peering arrangements among network providers are only local to the peers that enter into the arrangements and cannot affect traffic flow outside their scope citation needed Jon Peha from Carnegie Mellon University believes it is important to create policies that protect users from harmful traffic discrimination while allowing beneficial discrimination Peha discusses the technologies that enable traffic discrimination examples of different types of discrimination and the potential impacts of regulation 212 Google Chairman Eric Schmidt aligns Google s views on data discrimination with Verizon s I want to be clear what we mean by Net neutrality What we mean is if you have one data type like video you don t discriminate against one person s video in favor of another But it s okay to discriminate across different types So you could prioritize voice over video And there is general agreement with Verizon and Google on that issue 148 Echoing similar comments by Schmidt Google s Chief Internet Evangelist and father of the Internet Vint Cerf says that it s entirely possible that some applications needs far more latency like games Other applications need broadband streaming capability in order to deliver real time video Others don t really care as long as they can get the bits there like e mail or file transfers and things like that But it should not be the case that the supplier of the access to the network mediates this on a competitive basis but you may still have different kinds of service depending on what the requirements are for the different applications 213 Content caching edit Content caching is the process by which frequently accessed contents are temporarily stored in strategic network positions e g in servers close to the end users 214 to achieve several performance objectives For example caching is commonly used by ISPs to reduce network congestion and results in a superior quality of experience QoE perceived by the final users Since the storage available in cache servers is limited caching involves a process of selecting the contents worth storing Several cache algorithms have been designed to perform this process which in general leads to storing the most popular contents The cached contents are retrieved at a higher QoE e g lower latency and caching can be therefore considered a form of traffic differentiation 212 However caching is not generally viewed as a form of discriminatory traffic differentiation For example the technical writer Adam Marcus states that accessing content from edge servers may be a bit faster for users but nobody is being discriminated against and most content on the Internet is not latency sensitive 214 In line with this statement caching is not regulated by legal frameworks that are favourable to Net Neutrality such as the Open Internet Order issued by the FCC in 2015 Even more so the legitimacy of caching has never been put in doubt by opponents of Net Neutrality On the contrary the complexity of caching operations e g extensive information processing has been successively regarded by the FCC as one of the technical reasons why ISPs should not be considered common carriers which legitimates the abrogation of Net Neutrality rules 215 Under a Net Neutrality regime prioritization of a class of traffic with respect to another one is allowed only if several requirements are met e g objectively different QoS requirements 216 However when it comes to caching a selection of contents of the same class has to be performed e g set of videos worth storing in cache servers In the spirit of general deregulation with regard to caching there is no rule that specifies how this process can be carried out in a non discriminatory way Nevertheless the scientific literature considers the issue of caching as a potentially discriminatory process and provides possible guidelines to address it 217 For example a non discriminatory caching might be performed considering the popularity of contents or with the aim of guaranteeing the same QoE to all the users or alternatively to achieve some common welfare objectives 217 As far as content delivery networks CDNs are concerned the relationship between caching and Net Neutrality is even more complex In fact CDNs are employed to allow scalable and highly efficient content delivery rather than to grant access to the Internet Consequently differently from ISPs CDNs are entitled to charge content providers for caching their content Therefore although this may be regarded as a form of paid traffic prioritization CDNs are not subject to Net Neutrality regulations and are rarely included in the debate Despite this it is argued by some that the Internet ecosystem has changed to such an extent that all the players involved in the content delivery can distort competition and should be therefore also included in the discussion around Net Neutrality 217 Among those the analyst Dan Rayburn suggested that the Open Internet Order enacted by the FCC in 2015 was myopically focussed on ISPs 218 Quality of service edit Main article Quality of service Internet routers forward packets according to the diverse peering and transport agreements that exist between network operators Many networks using Internet protocols now employ quality of service QoS and Network Service Providers frequently enter into Service Level Agreements with each other embracing some sort of QoS There is no single uniform method of interconnecting networks using IP and not all networks that use IP are part of the Internet IPTV networks are isolated from the Internet and are therefore not covered by network neutrality agreements The IP datagram includes a 3 bit wide Precedence field and a larger DiffServ Code Point DSCP that are used to request a level of service consistent with the notion that protocols in a layered architecture offer service through Service Access Points This field is sometimes ignored especially if it requests a level of service outside the originating network s contract with the receiving network It is commonly used in private networks especially those including Wi Fi networks where priority is enforced While there are several ways of communicating service levels across Internet connections such as SIP RSVP IEEE 802 11e and MPLS the most common scheme combines SIP and DSCP Router manufacturers now sell routers that have logic enabling them to route traffic for various Classes of Service at wire speed Quality of service is sometimes taken as a measurement through certain tools to test a user s connection quality such as Network Diagnostic Tools NDT and services on speedtest net These tools are known to be used by National Regulatory Authorities NRAs who use these QoS measurements as a way of detecting Net Neutrality violations However there are very few examples of such measurements being used in any significant way by NRAs or in network policy for that matter Often these tools are used not because they fail at recording the results they are meant to record but because said measurements are inflexible and difficult to exploit for any significant purpose According to Ioannis Koukoutsidis the problems with the current tools used to measure QoS stem from a lack of a standard detection methodology a need to be able to detect various methods in which an ISP might violate Net Neutrality and the inability to test an average measurement for a specific population of users 219 With the emergence of multimedia VoIP IPTV and other applications that benefit from low latency various attempts to address the inability of some private networks to limit latency have arisen including the proposition of offering tiered service levels that would shape Internet transmissions at the network layer based on application type These efforts are ongoing and are starting to yield results as wholesale Internet transport providers begin to amend service agreements to include service levels 220 Advocates of net neutrality have proposed several methods to implement a net neutral Internet that includes a notion of quality of service An approach offered by Tim Berners Lee allows discrimination between different tiers while enforcing strict neutrality of data sent at each tier If I pay to connect to the Net with a given quality of service and you pay to connect to the net with the same or higher quality of service then you and I can communicate across the net with that quality and quantity of service 8 We each pay to connect to the Net but no one can pay for exclusive access to me 221 United States lawmakers have introduced bills that would now allow quality of service discrimination for certain services as long as no special fee is charged for higher quality service 222 Wireless networks edit There are also some discrepancies in how wireless networks affect the implementation of net neutrality policy some of which are noted in the studies of Christopher Yoo In one research article he claimed that bad handoffs local congestion and the physics of wave propagation make wireless broadband networks significantly less reliable than fixed broadband networks 223 Pricing models edit Broadband Internet access has most often been sold to users based on Excess Information Rate or maximum available bandwidth If Internet service providers ISPs can provide varying levels of service to websites at various prices this may be a way to manage the costs of unused capacity by selling surplus bandwidth or leverage price discrimination to recoup costs of consumer surplus However purchasers of connectivity on the basis of Committed Information Rate or guaranteed bandwidth capacity must expect the capacity they purchase in order to meet their communications requirements Various studies have sought to provide network providers with the necessary formulas for adequately pricing such a tiered service for their customer base But while network neutrality is primarily focused on protocol based provisioning most of the pricing models are based on bandwidth restrictions 224 Many Economists have analyzed Net Neutrality to compare various hypothetical pricing models For instance economic professors Michael L Katz and Benjamin E Hermalin at the University of California Berkeley co published a paper titled The Economics of Product Line Restrictions with an Application to the Network Neutrality Debate in 2007 In this paper they compared the single service economic equilibrium to the multi service economic equilibriums under Net Neutrality 225 Reactions to removing net neutrality in the US edit On 12 July 2017 an event called the Day of Action was held to advocate net neutrality in the United States in response to Ajit Pai s plans to remove government policies that upheld net neutrality Several websites participated in this event including ones such as Amazon Netflix Google and several other just as well known websites The gathering was called the largest online protest in history Websites chose many different ways to convey their message The founder of the web Tim Berners Lee published a video defending FCC s rules Reddit made a pop up message that loads slowly to illustrate the effect of removing net neutrality Other websites also put up some less obvious notifications such as Amazon which put up a hard to notice link or Google which put up a policy blog post as opposed to a more obvious message 226 A poll conducted by Mozilla showed strong support for net neutrality across US political parties Out of the approximately 1 000 responses received by the poll 76 of Americans 81 of Democrats and 73 of Republicans support net neutrality 227 The poll also showed that 78 of Americans do not think that Trump s government can be trusted to protect access to the Internet Net neutrality supporters had also made several comments on the FCC website opposing plans to remove net neutrality especially after a segment by John Oliver regarding this topic was aired on his show Last Week Tonight 228 He urged his viewers to comment on the FCC s website and the flood of comments that were received crashed the FCC s website with the resulting media coverage of the incident inadvertently helping it to reach greater audiences 229 However in response Ajit Pai selected one particular comment that specifically supported removal of net neutrality policies At the end of August the FCC released more than 13 000 pages of net neutrality complaints filed by consumers one day before the deadline for the public to comment on Ajit Pai s proposal to remove net neutrality It has been implied that the FCC ignored evidence against their proposal in order to remove the protection laws faster It has also been noted that nowhere was it mentioned how FCC made any attempt to resolve the complaints made Regardless Ajit Pai s proposal has drawn more than 22 million comments though a large amount was spam However there were 1 5 million personalized comments 98 5 of them protesting Ajit Pai s plan 230 As of January 2018 update needs update fifty senators had endorsed a legislative measure to override the Federal Communications Commission s decision to deregulate the broadband industry The Congressional Review Act paperwork was filed on 9 May 2018 which allowed the Senate to vote on the permanence of the new net neutrality rules proposed by the Federal Communications Commission 231 The vote passed and a resolution was approved to try to remove the FCC s new rules on net neutrality however officials doubted there was enough time to completely repeal the rules before the Open Internet Order officially expired on 11 June 2018 232 A September 2018 report from 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