FCC's net neutrality rules challenged in lobbyist lawsuit
by Sam Thielman in New York from Technology | The Guardian on (#725D)
Two groups headed by former FCC commissioners claim watchdog 'usurped the role of Congress' in passing new rules to protect an open internet
Two major lobbying groups are hitting back hard at new net neutrality rules meant to protect an open internet, both headed by former commissioners for the regulator that passed the rules.
The Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association (CTIA), a wireless industry lobbying group run by former Federal Communications Commission commissioner Meredith Attwell Baker, on Tuesday filed a lawsuit against the FCC seeking to overturn the regulator's landmark net neutrality rules on the grounds that "the FCC usurped the role of Congress" in creating them.
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