Verizon Policy Statement on Net Neutrality

Fri Feb 27 19:14:48 UTC 2015

>From 47CFR§8.5b
(b) A person engaged in the provision of mobile broadband Internet
access service, insofar as such person is so engaged, shall not block
consumers from accessing lawful Web sites, subject to reasonable
network management; nor shall such person block applications that
compete with the provider's voice or video telephony services, subject
to reasonable network management.

What's a "lawful" web site?

On Fri, Feb 27, 2015 at 10:28 AM, Lamar Owen <lowen at pari.edu> wrote:
> On 02/27/2015 01:19 PM, Rob McEwen wrote:
>>
>> We're solving an almost non-existing problem.. by over-empowering an
>> already out of control US government, with powers that we can't even begin
>> to understand the extend of how they could be abused... to "fix" an industry
>> that has done amazingly good things for consumers in recent years.
>>
> You really should read 47CFR§8.  It won't take you more than an hour or so,
> as it's only about 8 pages.
>
> The procedure for filing a complaint is pretty interesting, and requires the
> complainant to do some pretty involved things. (47CFR§8.14 for the complaint
> procedure, 47CFR§8.13 for the requirements for the pleading, etc).  Note
> that the definitions found in 47CFR§8.11(a) and (b) are pretty specific in
> who is actually covered by 'net neutrality.'
>