Analyzing the FCC's New Net Neutrality Principle

George S. Ford and Lawrence J. Spiwak, Phoenix Center for Advanced Legal & Economic Public Policy Studies, have published Non-Discrimination or Just Non-Sense: A Law and Economics Review of the FCC’s New Net Neutrality Principle. Here is the abstract. 

 

The Federal Communications Commission’s recently proposed “nondiscrimination” principle in its Open Internet NPRM is shown to be incompatible with established definitions of discrimination in the economics literature and communications jurisprudence.

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