Verizon Policy Statement on Net Neutrality

[owen at delong.com (Owen DeLong)]

Any website which does not violate the law.

In other words, if a lawful takedown order has been applied to a website, this code canâ??t be used to force an ISP to provide illegal access to said site.

Owen

> On Feb 27, 2015, at 11:14 , Jim Richardson <weaselkeeper at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> From 47CFR§8.5b
> (b) A person engaged in the provision of mobile broadband Internet
> access service, insofar as such person is so engaged, shall not block
> consumers from accessing lawful Web sites, subject to reasonable
> network management; nor shall such person block applications that
> compete with the provider's voice or video telephony services, subject
> to reasonable network management.
> 
> What's a "lawful" web site?
> 
> 
> On Fri, Feb 27, 2015 at 10:28 AM, Lamar Owen <lowen at pari.edu> wrote:
>> On 02/27/2015 01:19 PM, Rob McEwen wrote:
>>> 
>>> We're solving an almost non-existing problem.. by over-empowering an
>>> already out of control US government, with powers that we can't even begin
>>> to understand the extend of how they could be abused... to "fix" an industry
>>> that has done amazingly good things for consumers in recent years.
>>> 
>> You really should read 47CFR§8.  It won't take you more than an hour or so,
>> as it's only about 8 pages.
>> 
>> The procedure for filing a complaint is pretty interesting, and requires the
>> complainant to do some pretty involved things. (47CFR§8.14 for the complaint
>> procedure, 47CFR§8.13 for the requirements for the pleading, etc).  Note
>> that the definitions found in 47CFR§8.11(a) and (b) are pretty specific in
>> who is actually covered by 'net neutrality.'
>>