'Good Chance' Congress Will Debate Net Neutrality Again: FSF's May

There's a "good chance" the debate over net neutrality may come to an end "at least in the courts, leaving the issue of how broadband should be regulated to Congress," Free State Foundation President Randolph May wrote in a Friday blog (see 2408140043). It's "impossible to know for certain" how the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals will rule or if an appeal will reach the U.S. Supreme Court, May blogged. "My prediction is that the stay panel's reasoning" that Title II classification of broadband providers "constitutes a major question that Congress has not clearly authorized the commission to decide," he added. May noted there's "evidence that public utility regulation of broadband discourages investment in new facilities and development of innovative applications and services." The regulatory "flip-flopping," he said, is "not conducive to longer-term business planning in an arena so important ... to the nation's social and economic well-being."