Granting a Mozilla petition to classify remote delivery...
Granting a Mozilla petition to classify remote delivery services as Title II telecom services might not allow the FCC to ban access fees, said Stanford Law’s Barbara van Schewick in a meeting with Commissioner Jessica Rosenworcel Thursday, said an ex…
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parte filing (http://bit.ly/1oIDQQz). Van Schewick is the faculty director of Stanford Law’s Center for Internet and Society. Because telecom services are defined as being offered for a fee, classifying services offered to edge providers as requested by Mozilla would leave edge providers that don’t charge fees vulnerable to blocking and discrimination by ISPs, van Schewick said. It would be “arbitrary and capricious” to use Title II as a “backstop” for net neutrality rules based on Section 706 of the Communications Act, van Schewick said. “The definitions of telecommunications service and information service are mutually exclusive,” said the filing.