Free Press supports FCC in case against Comcast throttling
Earlier this month, Free Press and five other organizations filed a legal brief in support of an FCC ruling against Comcast's illegal throttling of online content.
In 2008 the FCC ruled that Comcast's blocking of BitTorrent traffic was an unlawful violation of the Commission's Open Internet principles, thus marking the first time that any U.S. broadband provider has ever been found to violate open Internet rules.
The brief, filed with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, bolsters the FCC's authority to "protect users' right to access the content, applications and services of their choice".
Free Press' policy counsel called Comcast's arguments "legal acrobatics" that tried to impede the FCC's enforcement duties and added,
"This case is about a federal agency punishing violations of federal law and policy. The FCC acted well within its authority as established by Congress and multiple federal courts."
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