Mozilla Company in the Federal Court of Appeals for a significant relaxation of the rules regarding net neutrality, approved by the US Federal Communications Agency (FCC). The court ruled that the states may, at the level of their local laws, individually establish rules regarding net neutrality. Similar legislative changes that preserve net neutrality, for example, are pending in California.
However, while the repeal of net neutrality remains in place (until the states individually pass laws that change these rules at their level), the judge called the logic on which it is based "out of touch with the reality of building modern broadband services." The FCC has the ability to appeal the decision to higher instances, up to the Supreme Court.
Recall that last year the FCC requirements that prohibited providers from paying priority increase, blocking access and limiting the speed of access to content and services distributed legally. Neutrality was ensured in the "Title II" classification, which treated broadband access as an "information service" rather than a "telecommunications service", which put content distributors and telecom operators on the same rank and did not discriminate against one of the parties.
Mozilla considers it unacceptable to violate the equal importance of all types of traffic and discriminate against content distributors by allowing telecom operators to separate priorities for different types and sources of traffic. According to supporters of net neutrality, such a separation will lead to a deterioration in the quality of access to some sites and types of data by increasing the priority for others, and will also complicate the introduction of new services to the market, since they will initially lose in terms of access quality to services that have paid providers to increase the priority. their traffic.
Source: opennet.ru