Wednesday, November 22, 2017

What is Net Neutrality and Why is it important?

There are allegations against chairman of the FCC, Ajit Pai that he "has taken actions to improperly benefit Sinclair broadcast group" a large media group with interest in television and Internet. The actions that Chairman Pai has taken would change Net Neutrality rules to benefit large media companies allowing them to redirect internet resources to favored clients.

Under current regulations the FCC prohibits media companies from monitoring or redirecting Internet resources to favor any one client.

Congressman Elijah Cummings and ranking member Frank Pallone have asked the Federal Communications Commission Inspector General to investigate Chairman Pai to determine the legality of his authority to change regulations affecting net neutrality.

Apparently the leadership of the Sinclair Broadcast Group, one of the largest broadcast television stations in the United States, influenced the chairman to take actions that would relax broadcast ownership rules providing special benefit to media companies.

In the event, that the net neutrality regulations are rewritten to benefit media companies, the middle class will suffer from higher costs that can be imposed by their media resource companies.

I support an effort to block this kind of re-regulation by asking United States Senators to intervene on behalf of the constituents in their communities. This can best be done by calling your senator's office and asking that s/he contact the FCC on behalf of his constituents to let them know that he supports Title 2.