"Easily dismissed" and "simply false on its face" was Federal Communications Commissioner Mignon Clyburn's response on Thursday to charges that the FCC's proposed net neutrality rules represent a throwback to old AT&T monopoly-era regulations. The Commission's plan is indeed to "reclassify" ISPs as common carriers, but then to "forebear" many rules contained in Title II of the Communications Act's common carrier toolkit—save those needed to keep ISPs from discriminating against applications and services they don't like.
The whole point of the approach "is to avoid applying any such old-world rules," Clyburn told the Media Institute. "Without forbearance there is no reclassification. You cannot have one without the other. Think peanut butter and jelly. Salt and Pepper. Batman and Robin. You get the picture."
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