In 2006, the first attempt to update the Communications Act to include a reference to net neutrality was considered by the Senate, but it ultimately failed. Later, in 2008 the FCC set a precedent that ISPs should not prevent their customers from accessing online services by ordering Comcast to stop throttling Bittorrent traffic on their network. Following these events, the U.S. Court of appeals overturned the FCC’s order against Comcast claiming the FCC had no regulatory power over ISP networks. In response, in 2010 the FCC issues the Open Internet Order which banned ISPs from preventing access to certain websites. However, this was overturned yet again in 2014 from the D.C. Circuit Court claiming that the FCC did not have the authority under Title One of the Communications Act of 1934 to enforce the Open Internet rules as broadband services where still classified as an information service instead of a telecommunications service. The D.C. Circuit endorsed the FCC’s attempts to regulate broadband however, it reiterated that the FCC had no authority over ISP networks if they were classified as an information
In 2006, the first attempt to update the Communications Act to include a reference to net neutrality was considered by the Senate, but it ultimately failed. Later, in 2008 the FCC set a precedent that ISPs should not prevent their customers from accessing online services by ordering Comcast to stop throttling Bittorrent traffic on their network. Following these events, the U.S. Court of appeals overturned the FCC’s order against Comcast claiming the FCC had no regulatory power over ISP networks. In response, in 2010 the FCC issues the Open Internet Order which banned ISPs from preventing access to certain websites. However, this was overturned yet again in 2014 from the D.C. Circuit Court claiming that the FCC did not have the authority under Title One of the Communications Act of 1934 to enforce the Open Internet rules as broadband services where still classified as an information service instead of a telecommunications service. The D.C. Circuit endorsed the FCC’s attempts to regulate broadband however, it reiterated that the FCC had no authority over ISP networks if they were classified as an information