Appeals court skeptical of FCC’s Internet access rules

A federal appeals court on Monday expressed skepticism of the Federal Communications Commission’s Internet access rules, an encouraging sign for broadband providers eager to escape regulation that forces them to deliver all Web content equally.

In two hours of oral arguments, three judges on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit grilled an FCC lawyer on the agency’s legal basis for creating its "net neutrality" rules in 2010. The regulation bars cable and telecom carriers from blocking any Web site, even when such content competes with their own Internet businesses.

By Cecilia Kang

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