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Net Neutrality Repeal Rips Holes in the Public Safety Net
University of Pittsburgh Law Review ( IF 0.107 ) Pub Date : 2019-11-04 , DOI: 10.5195/lawreview.2019.658
Catherine J.K. Sandoval

This article examines the public safety issues raised by the Federal Communications Commission's January 2018 repeal of net neutrality rules adopted in 2015 that prohibited Internet Service Providers from blocking, throttling, paid priority, and unreasonable interference with or disadvantage to Internet traffic. This article contends that the FCC's failure to consider and articulate the public safety issues raised by net neutrality repeal renders the FCC's Order arbitrary and capricious under the Administrative Procedures Act (APA) and in violation of the FCC’s duties under the Communications Act. This article theorizes that public safety is improved when everyone has access to an open and neutral Internet to send and receive information. Telecommunications theorists recognize that communications networks, whether the telephone system or the Internet, are more valuable when everyone can communicate to everyone. This article theorizes that the Internet supports distributed public safety; community-enabled public safety that harnesses the Internet's network effects to improve public safety through information exchange. For example, public sharing of videos of a fire when it first breaks out helps first responders and can guide neighbors to evacuation routes. Public use of an open and neutral Internet facilitates and complements the work of government agencies and firms with statutory and regulatory public safety duties. This article explores theories of democracy that underlie distributed public safety enabled through an open and neutral Internet. This article concludes that the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals should find that the FCC’s violations of the Communications Act and APA merit remand and vacatur of the FCC's 2018 net neutrality repeal order.

中文翻译:

网络中立废除公共安全网中的漏洞

本文探讨了联邦通信委员会于 2018 年 1 月废除了 2015 年通过的网络中立规则所引发的公共安全问题,这些规则禁止互联网服务提供商阻止、节流、付费优先以及对互联网流量的不合理干扰或不利。本文认为,FCC 未能考虑和阐明废除网络中立性所引发的公共安全问题,使得 FCC 的命令在《行政程序法》(APA) 下具有任意性和反复无常性,并且违反了 FCC 在《通信法》下的职责。本文认为,当每个人都可以访问开放和中立的互联网来发送和接收信息时,公共安全就会得到改善。电信理论家认识到,通信网络、无论是电话系统还是互联网,当每个人都可以与每个人交流时更有价值。本文认为互联网支持分布式公共安全;社区支持的公共安全,利用互联网的网络效应,通过信息交换来改善公共安全。例如,在首次发生火灾时公开分享火灾视频有助于急救人员并引导邻居前往疏散路线。公开和中立的互联网的公共使用促进和补充了政府机构和公司的工作,履行法定和监管公共安全职责。本文探讨了民主理论,这些理论是通过开放和中立的互联网实现的分布式公共安全的基础。这篇文章的结论是,DC
更新日期:2019-11-04
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