C\u00e1c ch\u00ednh tr\u1ecb gia th\u00e2n thi\u1ec7n v\u1edbi ng\u00e0nh c\u00f4ng nghi\u1ec7p s\u1ebd kh\u00f4ng t\u1eeb b\u1ea5t c\u1ee9 th\u1ee7 \u0111o\u1ea1n n\u00e0o \u0111\u1ec3 c\u1ee9u tr\u1ee3 nh\u1eefng ng\u01b0\u1eddi tr\u1ea3 l\u01b0\u01a1ng cho doanh nghi\u1ec7p c\u1ee7a h\u1ecd, ngay c\u1ea3 khi \u0111i\u1ec1u \u0111\u00f3 c\u00f3 ngh\u0129a l\u00e0 ph\u1edbt l\u1edd \u00fd nguy\u1ec7n c\u1ee7a ng\u01b0\u1eddi d\u00e2n M\u1ef9.<\/p>
On Wednesday, every Republican on the House Appropriations Committee (and one Democrat, Texas Rep. Henry Cuellar) voted to block implementation of the FCC's historic net neutrality rules. Those rules, which went into effect last Friday, keep the Internet free and open for all Americans. The Internet is the town square of 21st-century democracy, not a playground for deep-pocketed corporations, and the rules ensure that it will stay that way.<\/p>
Tucked more than 100 pages into the bill is a rider that hamstrings the agency’s ability to \"implement, administer, or enforce\" any of those rules until (and this is a big until) pending net neutrality litigation against the FCC is resolved. The rider's language, as Representative Jose Serrano, D-NY, noted, throws the door wide open for corporate lawyers to stall implementation of the FCC's rules, possibly indefinitely.<\/p>
Serrano said that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit refused last week to delay implementation of the FCC's rules. Decisions on whether the rules should stand should come from the judicial system, Serrano argued; the rider just gave unhappy Republicans a way to circumvent the judicial process.<\/p>
Common Cause agrees. The FCC’s Open Internet rules reflect the views of more than 4 million Americans who submitted comments to the agency. The Court of Appeals had a chance to intervene but chose not to. It's not Congress’s job to undercut the judicial branch or defy the will of the public, but the committee’s vote does just that.<\/p>
\u201cNg\u00f4i nh\u00e0 c\u1ee7a nh\u00e2n d\u00e2n ph\u1ea3i \u0111\u1ea1i di\u1ec7n cho \u00fd ch\u00ed c\u1ee7a nh\u00e2n d\u00e2n\u201d, Michael Copps, c\u1ed1 v\u1ea5n \u0111\u1eb7c bi\u1ec7t c\u1ee7a Common Cause v\u00e0 l\u00e0 c\u1ef1u \u1ee7y vi\u00ean FCC cho bi\u1ebft. \u201cBi\u1ec3u quy\u1ebft \u0111a s\u1ed1 c\u1ee7a \u1ee7y ban ch\u1ed1ng l\u1ea1i Open Internet ho\u00e0n to\u00e0n kh\u00f4ng \u0111\u1ed3ng b\u1ed9 v\u1edbi h\u00e0ng tri\u1ec7u ng\u01b0\u1eddi \u0111\u00e3 li\u00ean h\u1ec7 v\u1edbi FCC \u0111\u1ec3 y\u00eau c\u1ea7u \u2013 v\u00e0 gi\u00e0nh chi\u1ebfn th\u1eafng \u2013 s\u1ef1 c\u1ea1nh tranh tr\u1ef1c tuy\u1ebfn mang t\u00ednh l\u1ecbch s\u1eed v\u00e0 \u0111\u1ea3m b\u1ea3o quy\u1ec1n t\u1ef1 do ng\u00f4n lu\u1eadn\u201d.<\/p>
Ng\u01b0\u1eddi M\u1ef9 mu\u1ed1n Internet v\u1eabn \u0111\u01b0\u1ee3c t\u1ef1 do v\u00e0 c\u1edfi m\u1edf. Ph\u1ea7n l\u1edbn \u1ee6y ban T\u00e0i ch\u00ednh \u0111\u00e3 ch\u1ee9ng minh h\u1ecd kh\u00f4ng theo k\u1ecbp qu\u1ed1c gia nh\u01b0 th\u1ebf n\u00e0o.<\/p>