Lawmakers Pledge CRA Vote to Reverse Net Neutrality Repeal Lawmakers like Chuck Schumer are promising a vote to use the Congressional Review Act (CRA) to block the Trump FCC's attempts to kill net neutrality. The FCC voted 3-2 along party lines to kill popular net neutrality protections, though the agency now faces a challenging legal assault by those claiming the agency engaged in numerous process fouls while also ignoring the will of the public. One recent survey suggests that 83% of the public opposed the agency's roll back of the rules, which won't technically take effect until 60 days after the repeal hits the federal register.

Ignoring the fact such a move would struggle to get the required votes in the current ISP-cash-compromised Congress, Schumer pledged to at least try to block the repeal by using the CRA. “There will be a vote to repeal the rule that the FCC passed. It’s in our power to do that,” Schumer said in New York. “Sometimes we don’t like them, when they used it to repeal some of the pro environmental regulations, but now we can use the CRA to our benefit and we intend to." The CRA has been used heavily by the GOP in recent months, and the GOP and Trump administration used the act to reverse FCC broadband privacy rules earlier this year. Those rules required that ISPs be transparent about what data is being collected from users and sold to third parties, while requiring that ISPs provide working opt out tools for such data collection. In this case, a reversal via the CRA is unlikely since it would require the support of the House, Senate and President Donald Trump. The repeal faces much tougher odds in the looming court cases, since the FCC will need to prove that the broadband market changed so substantially in just the last two years to warrant such an abrupt reversal of popular policy. From there, net neutrality opponents will need to find a way to prevent the FCC from just crafting new rules down the road, an effort likely to take the form of In this case, a reversal via the CRA is unlikely since it would require the support of the House, Senate and President Donald Trump. The repeal faces much tougher odds in the looming court cases, since the FCC will need to prove that the broadband market changed so substantially in just the last two years to warrant such an abrupt reversal of popular policy. From there, net neutrality opponents will need to find a way to prevent the FCC from just crafting new rules down the road, an effort likely to take the form of an ISP-written law that professes to "fix" the problem while failing to address real consumer concerns.







News Jump Starlink's Network Faces Huge Limitations; AT&T Whines T-Mobile Merger Put Too Much Spectrum In One Place; + more news WISPs Get CBRS Range As Great As Six Miles At 100 Mbps Speeds; Windstream Officially Exits Bankruptcy; + more news Charter Relaunches Free 60-day Internet And Wi-Fi Offer; NCTA: FCC Should Stick With 25/3 Speed Threshold; + more news Comcast Shuts Off Internet for Subs Who Were Sold Service Illegally; AT&T, Verizon Team To Stop T-Mobile 5G; + more news California Defends Its Net Neutrality Law; AT&T's Traffic Up 20% Despite Data Traffic Actually Being Down; + more news Are The Comcast-Charter X1 Talks Dead In The Water?; AT&T May Offer Phone Plans With Ads For Discounts; + more news Europe's Top Court: Net Neutrality Rules Bar Zero Rating; ViacomCBS To Rebrand CBS All Access As Paramount+; + more news Verizon To Buy Reseller TracFone For $7B; 5G Not The Competitive Threat To Cable Many Thought It Would Be; + more news MS.Wants Records From AT&T On $300M Project; Google Fiber Outages In Austin, Houston, Other Texan Cities; + more news States With The Biggest Decreases In Speed; AT&T Hopes You'll Forget Its Fight Against Accurate Maps; + more news ---------------------- this week last week most discussed

Most recommended from 11 comments

ke4pym

Premium Member

join:2004-07-24

Charlotte, NC 7 recommendations ke4pym Premium Member This is great and all. But do you honestly think if NN rules are rolled back and stay in force the current FCC would actually enforce them?



My money is on "probably not".

IowaCowboy

Supermarket Hero

Premium Member

join:2010-10-16

Springfield, MA 4 recommendations IowaCowboy Premium Member States rights Give states the authority to regulate ISPs. I could see the Massachusetts Department of Public Utilities raking Comcast over the coals. Rekrul

join:2007-04-21

Milford, CT 3 recommendations Rekrul Member This won't succeed, but... I doubt there's much chance of them getting the votes to reverse the decision, but at least this will force all the republicans to go on record as opposing net neutrality. jvanbrecht

join:2007-01-08

Bowie, MD 2 recommendations jvanbrecht Member Sadly, this is likely to fail They would require 2/3rds majority to make it Veto proof. Angry Orange Manbaby is 100% going to veto if he can, and getting enough Republicans to get to that 2/3rds majority is likely impossible. But it is a nice try.