This week on the communicators, discussion of the recent d. C. Court of appeals decision on internet regulation, also known as Net Neutrality. Joining us to discuss this issue gigi sohn, former fcc chair tom wheelers adviser, currently with the Georgetown Law Institute for technology. And the Senior Vice President at u. S. Telecom, trade Association Patrick halley washington, d. C. Give us of lawyers assessment of what the d. C. Court of appeals ruled. The d. C. Court of appeals ruled that the secs decision was permissible in the industry storing Internet Freedom order. It was completely upheld. It was a big win for consumers and innovators and a big win for broadband in america. Essentially, with the court said was that the secs decision to regulate Broadband Internet access as an Information Service as it largely has been for the last 20 years outside of a twoyear period. Under the title to order, was permissible. It is consistent with Supreme Court precedent and this d. C. Circuit j
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Decisions that we should be aware of . Like everybody else i want to say it like nikki rooney, im happy to be in the show. [laughter] right that the term is characterized in part by the cases that court took and partly by the cases the court postponed or did not take. To hide too cases tdap the beginning of the term and one set of them were on the summer conference list for last year where the cases about the scope of title vii, whether covers discrimination based on Sexual Orientation or on gender identity. The court could have taken those cases last september and did not, it held off until april. It once again dodged a question in had in front of it in Masterpiece Cake shop by sending me arlenes flowers case back far in light of Masterpiece Cake shop, which i find interesting. Because Masterpiece Cake shop shed no light on the question. So you wonder what theyre expecting the lower court to do there. The daca case was hanging up there for quite a long. Of time. I think they thought m
More than 20 years, since the birth of the internet age as we know i, section 230 has provided websites we put the immunity from liability from other users post. The Electronic Frontier foundation describes important sectionos of 230 this way. This legal and policy framework has offered youtube users to upload their own videos, amazon yelps offered countless offer reviews, craigslist lads, and facebook and twitter offer social networking to billions of internet users. Given the sheer size of user generated websites, it would be impossible and feasible for online people to have objectionable content popping up on their price. In short, section 230, a lot to protect the kind of innovations that is allowed the internet to drive since 1996. And yet, over the past few years section 230 has faced heighten criticism for both the left and right. They encouraged from the left argued that social media giants enjoy special protection. They know consequences. And other critics on the right have ar