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Does the FCC even have the authority to regulate net neutrality?

To some extent. This was discussed extensively in the recent Verizon-FCC lawsuit.




I must have missed the other discussion. I looked around the big threads but couldn't find much about FCC's authority when it comes to international networks. Feel free to link it.

On US soil with US citizens and US companies, it should be simple. But it is a complicated world in which we live, so it sounds like the FCC could only really protect equality in the best of circumstances.

For the sake of conversation, lets say the FCC isn't powerful enough. Lets say the internet is just too powerful, and there is no hope of the FCC or any other organization to regulate it. Would net neutrality be lost forever? Is it lost already?


> US soil with US citizens and US companies

> FCC

> Comcast

> Netflix




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