Einige Reaktionen auf die kommenden möglichen FCC-Empfehlungen pro Netzneutralität

European Digital Rights twitterte heute in Richtung unserer beiden Digitalkommissare:

Die Digitale Gesellschaft sagt:

“Internet ist ein öffentliches Gut. Statt weiter den Märchen der Telekommunikationslobby auf den Leim zu gehen, müssen sich EU-Ministerrat und Bundesregierung ein Beispiel an dem FCC-Vorschlag nehmen. Lebendigen Wettbewerb und kreative Innovationen kann es nur in einem diskriminierungsfreien Netz geben. Bezahlte Überholspuren hingegen zementieren einen Monopolmarkt auf Kosten von jungen Unternehmen, Verbraucherinnen und Verbrauchern.”, erklärt Alexander Sander, Geschäftsführer des Vereins Digitale Gesellschaft.

Reddit sagt:

This is quite a way to mark the one-year anniversary of court decision undermining Net Neutrality rules. When the FCC started writing new rules, Title II reclassification, which is the only real way to protect net neutrality for generations to come, was not even being discussed. Then the internet got involved. We took something that everyone considered impossible and made it nearly inevitable.

Public Knowledge findet das historisch:

“Public Knowledge commends Chairman Wheeler for siding with network users by announcing his support for strong Open Internet rules grounded in Title II authority. This is a historic announcement by Chairman Wheeler, and a decision that consumers have been demanding for some time. Americans have waited over a year for the FCC to restore the Open Internet protections that were vacated by the DC Circuit Court.

Free Press sagt: Why Title II Reclassification for Net Neutrality Is the Biggest Deal Ever.

Three weeks remain until the full Commission votes on the proposal at its Feb. 26 meeting. But if all goes well, it will be a watershed victory for activists who have fought for a decade to protect the open Internet. Creating policy change is hard. It’s often incremental and marked with smaller victories that involve lots of tradeoffs and compromises. But if you can get all the way down to the root of a problem, real progress can occur.