USA can deliver internet supervision to FTC after ' end ' of net neutrality

The telecommunications regulatory agency of the United States (FCC) intends to deliver the supervision of internet services to the regulatory agency for trade (FTC) in the country, shortly after approving the rules to end the principle of network neutrality in next Thursday, 14. The plan was disclosed by the FCC on Monday, 11, and has been received with a lot of controversy in the United States, broadening the discussion that can dramatically affect the structure of the internet around the world.
One of the basic principles of the internet, network neutrality asks the data of all users are treated the same way by the connection providers, without economic or social distinction. Approved in 2015 by the Obama administration, the United States ' current rules say that carriers such as AT&T, Comcast and Verizon may not, for example, charge more, reduce speed, favoring certain applications or Web sites or even block the data traffic of users in Internet. Under the new proposal, advocated by Ajit Pai, President of FCC since January, when he began to Trump management, operators will have freedom to create different plans for users.
On Monday, the FCC and the FTC released that are entering into an agreement to coordinate efforts with the new rules-which have not yet been approved. According to the agencies, efforts shall return "to the FTC the task of policing the practices of internet service providers." Under the proposal, the FCC will no longer be responsible for spreading the abusive practices of the operators, but just ask companies to disclose if block, impede or make some kind of internet traffic prioritization.
For FCC Commissioner Mignon Clyburn, belonging to the Democratic Party, the opposition, the agreement "is confusing, reactionary and an attempt to gain body about the weaknesses of the proposal of Ajit father to repel the rules approved in 2015".
The FTC says the proposal, it is investigating if the operators were unable to disclose their practices or if they hid their actions of consumers. "We are committed to ensure that the operators will meet its promises to consumers," said the President of the Agency, Maureen Ohlhausen. For FCC Commissioner Jessica Rosenworcel, also of the Democratic Party, the idea is failed. "The FTC's punishment only long after the damage – months, if not years, after consumers and businesses were harmed."
Vice President of the digital rights advocacy group Public Knowledge, Chris Lewis said the FCC "is joining forces with the FTC just to say whether carriers are affecting the public, but not to act. It is a proposal that gives a free pass to the operators block or reduce the internet traffic, just having to inform the consumer to that. "
The week should be pretty tense in Washington with the subject: the Democratic Party and defenders of the principle of net neutrality – as big technology companies and names like Steve Wozniak, Tim-Berners Lee and Vint Cerf – promise a series of protests to try to reverse the current scenario. Today, Ajit Father has most in FCC, with three votes of the Republican party-the same President Donald Trump, who appointed him – against two democratic Commissioners.
If the proposal is approved, it will be a great victory for local telephone companies, such as AT&T, Verizon and Comcast. The expectation, with approval, is that the rules gain effect in January, but are challenged in court – as already pointed out Tim Wu, the maker of the principle of net neutrality, in text to The New York Times.