{"id":88320,"date":"2018-01-29T17:27:07","date_gmt":"2018-01-29T22:27:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=88320"},"modified":"2018-01-27T19:59:22","modified_gmt":"2018-01-28T00:59:22","slug":"schneiderman-files-suit-to-stop-illegal-rollback-of-net-neutrality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=88320","title":{"rendered":"Schneiderman files suit to stop illegal rollback of Net Neutrality"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Schneiderman files suit to stop illegal rollback of Net Neutrality<\/strong><\/p>\n

AG Schneiderman Leads Coalition of 22 Attorneys General in Filing Petition for Review, Formally Commencing Lawsuit<\/em>\u00a0<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Click Here for New Video from AG Schneiderman on the Lawsuit He\u2019s Leading<\/a><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

New York Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman led a coalition of 22 Attorneys General in filing a multistate lawsuit to block the Federal Communications Commission\u2019s illegal rollback of net neutrality. The coalition filed a petition for review in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, formally commencing the lawsuit against the FCC and the federal government.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cAn open internet \u2013 and the free exchange of ideas it allows \u2013 is critical to our democratic process,\u201d said\u00a0<\/span>Schneiderman. \u201cThe repeal of net neutrality would turn internet service providers into gatekeepers \u2013 allowing them to put profits over consumers while controlling what we see, what we do, and what we say online. This would be a disaster for New York consumers and businesses, and for everyone who cares about a free and open internet. That\u2019s why I\u2019m proud to lead this broad coalition of 22 Attorneys General in filing suit to stop the FCC\u2019s illegal rollback of net neutrality.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Click here to read the petition<\/a>. The lawsuit is led by Schneiderman, and filed by the Attorneys General of New York, California, Connecticut, Delaware, Hawaii, Illinois, Iowa, Kentucky, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Mississippi, New Mexico, North Carolina, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, and the District of Columbia.<\/span><\/p>\n

The repeal of net neutrality would have dire consequences for consumers and businesses in New York and across the country that rely on a free and open internet \u2013 allowing internet service providers to block certain content, charge consumers more to access certain sites, and throttle or slow the quality of content from content providers that don\u2019t pay more.<\/span><\/p>\n

Under the Administrative Procedure Act, the FCC cannot make \u201carbitrary and capricious\u201d changes to existing policies, such as net neutrality. The FCC\u2019s new rule fails to justify the Commission\u2019s departure from its long-standing policy and practice of defending net neutrality, while misinterpreting and disregarding critical record evidence on industry practices and harm to consumers and businesses (which were detailed in\u00a0Attorney General Schneiderman\u2019s comments submitted last year<\/a>). Moreover, the rule wrongly reclassifies broadband internet as a Title I information service, rather than a Title II telecommunications service, based on an erroneous and unreasonable interpretation of the Telecommunications Act. Finally, the rule improperly and unlawfully includes sweeping preemption of state and local laws.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Schneiderman files suit to stop illegal rollback of Net Neutrality AG Schneiderman Leads Coalition of 22 Attorneys General in Filing Petition for Review, Formally Commencing Lawsuit\u00a0 Click Here for New Video from AG Schneiderman on the Lawsuit He\u2019s Leading New York Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman led a coalition of 22 Attorneys General in filing […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":70131,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23810,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88320","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wellbeing","category-top-story"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88320","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=88320"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88320\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/70131"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=88320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=88320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=88320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}