Broadband providers made it clear this week: they wholeheartedly support net neutrality... but they want to overturn those pesky net neutrality rules and replace them with something that isn't so strict.
Comcast, meanwhile, accused net neutrality supporters of "creat[ing] hysteria.".
This was part of a flurry of activity by ISPs and broadband lobby groups in response to yesterday's "Day of Action to Save Net Neutrality," a protest of the Federal Communications Commission plan to deregulate broadband and eliminate or replace net neutrality rules.
Verizon is the same company that sued the FCC over a weaker set of net neutrality rules issued in 2010.
Republicans in Congress have advanced several net neutrality proposals; some would impose a version of net neutrality rules while gutting the FCC's authority to regulate ISPs, while others would wipe out net neutrality rules altogether.
Comcast, which helped kick off the decade-long net neutrality saga by throttling BitTorrent traffic, also pushed for Congress to replace the current net neutrality rules with something weaker.
Congress should write "legally enforceable net neutrality rules" in order to "end the game of regulatory ping pong," Comcast wrote. »