- Die FCC hat gestern (mit 3:2 Stimmen) neue Regeln zur Netzneutralität angenommen, die niemanden recht glücklich machen (FCC-Chairman Genachowski spricht das in seinem Statement auch an: "To some, unless their test is met, open Internet rules are 'fake net neutrality.' To others, unless their test is met, open internet rules are 'a government takeover of the Internet.' For myself, I reject both extremes ..."); die "Rules" selbst sind noch nicht online, die wichtigsten Passagen finden sich aber in der Presseaussendung (Word Dokument):
- Rule 1: Transparency: A person engaged in the provision of broadband Internet access service shall publicly disclose accurate information regarding the network management practices, performance, and commercial terms of its broadband Internet access services sufficient for consumers to make informed choices regarding use of such services and for content, application, service, and device providers to develop, market, and maintain Internet offerings
- Rule 2: No Blocking: A person engaged in the provision of fixed broadband Internet access service, insofar as such person is so engaged, shall not block lawful content, applications, services, or non-harmful devices, subject to reasonable network management. A person engaged in the provision of mobile broadband Internet access service, insofar as such person is so engaged, shall not block consumers from accessing lawful websites, subject to reasonable network management; nor shall such person block applications that compete with the provider’s voice or video telephony services, subject to reasonable network
- Rule 3: No Unreasonable Discrimination: A person engaged in the provision of fixed broadband Internet access service, insofar as such person is so engaged, shall not unreasonably discriminate in transmitting lawful network traffic over a consumer’s broadband Internet access service. Reasonable network management shall not constitute unreasonable discrimination.
- Beiträge zur Netzneutralität finden sich auf der neuen Online-Ergänzung zur Yale Law and Policy Review, Inter Alia: von Dawn C. Nunziato (The First Amendment Issue of Our Time), Jonathan Zittrain (Net Neutrality as Diplomacy), Frank Pasquale (Search, Speech, and Secrecy: Corporate Strategies for Inverting Net Neutrality Debates) und Susan Crawford (The Looming Cable Monopoly)
- E. Donald Elliott, Chevron Matters: How the Chevron Doctrine Re-Defined the Roles of Congress, Courts and Agencies in Environmental Law (schon aus 2005, aber erst seit kurzem auf SSRN); ein interessanter Beitrag vor allem zum Verhältnis zwischen Experten/Sachverständigen einerseits und Juristen andererseits in Regulierungsbehörden (vor dem Hintergrund der Chevron-Entscheidung des US Supreme Court)
- Rachel E. Barkow, Insulating Agencies: Avoiding Capture Through Institutional Design
- Rebecca Tushnet, Attention Must Be Paid: Commercial Speech, User-Generated Ads, and the Challenge of Regulation
- Der US Supreme Court hat zwei neue Telekom-Fälle zur Entscheidung angenommen; mehr dazu auf SCOTUSblog hier und hier;
- Rede von FCC-Commissioner Copps, "Getting Media Right: A Call To Action", mit dem Vorschlag, einen Public Value Test für terrestrische (kommerzielle!) Fernsehsender zu machen, gewissermaßen im Gegenzug gegen "free use of the airwaves": Copps will einen Public Value Test bei Verlängerung der Lizenz, und dabei sollen Dinge geprüft werden wie commitments to news and public affairs programming, enhanced disclosure, political advertising disclosure, reflecting diversity, community discovery local and independent programming, public safety. Zitat aus der Rede: "Some will say that attempting to repair commercial broadcasting is a fool’s errand. 'Licensees will never agree,' I am told, 'so why not just hit them with a spectrum fee and put that money toward public news and media?' That has its temptations, I admit, ..."
Abseits vom USA-Schwerpunkt noch ein Hinweis auf zwei interessante Sachen zu Selbst- und Ko-Regulierung:
Schließlich verweise ich noch auf relativ neue
BEREC*-Dokumente:
*
Anders Comstedt hat BEREC in einem
Kommentar auf Susan Crawfords Blog so beschrieben:
"one more illustrous congregation of yet another group of frequent fliers where there is always room for a next meeting and for the slowest, most incumbent friendly regulator to water out anything spicy."
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