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07/19/2017
NCTA: Title II, Net Neutrality Not Remotely the Same
On the eve of Wednesday's (July 12) net-neutrality "Day of Action" that will be devoted mostly to advocating for retaining Title II classification of internet access providers, NCTA: The Internet & Television Association blogged against conflating that regulatory regime with an open internet.
"In the opinion of the Day of Action organizers, reversing Title II threatens the net-neutrality principles that today govern the internet; namely, that internet providers cannot block, throttle, or unfairly prioritize content that they carry over their networks," the association blogged. "To be clear though, Title II and net neutrality are not even remotely the same thing. Title II is a complicated set of rules from the 1930s meant to govern an era when rotary dial telephones were in vogue. It has as much relevance to the internet as a horse and buggy has to an airplane."
