A Reader on Net Neutrality and Restoring Internet Freedom

In December 2017 the Federal Communications Commission adopted its landmark Restoring Internet Freedom Order that repealed the public utility-like regulations which were applied to broadband Internet service providers by the Obama Administrations FCC. The Restoring Internet Freedom Orders return to a light-touch national broadband Internet policy fosters free market competition and helps to secure the Internets future. The FCCs action enhances consumer welfare and encourages economic investment and technological innovation by all the participants in the Internet ecosystem. Importantly the FCCs decision also establishes a regulatory framework that ensures consumers are protected from anticompetitive conduct as well as from unfair and deceptive trade practices. In the context of offering a convincing defense of the FCCs Restoring Internet Freedom Order this volume provides a wealth of information and key insights into the long-running debate surrounding net neutrality regulation. The selected writings in this Reader explore both legal and policy rationales that support the FCCs December 2017 action. They explain why the FCCs pro-consumer pro-investment pro-innovation approach to regulation of broadband Internet services that was adopted in the Restoring Internet Freedom Order should be preserved.