Net Neutrality’s Winners and Losers
Publisher
UVA Lawyer
Date
2018-2
So-Called “Net Neutrality” regulations, adopted in 2015, prohibited internet service providers from blocking or slowing content and from charging higher fees for prioritization. After the FCC voted in December to rescind the rules, the first lawsuits were filed immediately, before the ruling was even published in the Federal Register.
Net neutrality has been percolating as an issue in telecom circles for over a decade, but the debate exploded into the national consciousness in May 2014, when John Oliver made it the focus of an obscenity-laced, hysterical (in both senses of the word) tirade on his HBO show, “Last Week Tonight with John Oliver.”
Citation
Thomas B. Nachbar, Net Neutrality’s Winners and Losers, UVA Lawyer 34 (February, 2018).