<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">Helpful! </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">In the run up to the vote ISOC North America Bureau Chief <b>Mark Buell</b> also <a href="https://www.internetsociety.org/blog/2017/12/net-neutrality-fccs-december-14-vote/"><b>pegged some points</b></a>.</div><div class="gmail_quote"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"></div><u></u>
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joly posted: "Columbia University Professor, former FCC CTO, and Internet Hall-of-Famer Henning Schulzrinne has written an informative backgrounder on the current U.S. Open Internet Order repeal scenario - What the December 14th Net Neutrality Vote really means: answer" </span>
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<p style="direction:ltr;font-size:14px;line-height:1.4em;color:#444;font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;margin:0 0 1em"><img border="0" class="m_5703239507207579587size-full m_5703239507207579587wp-image-9719" src="http://isoc-ny.org/p2/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/schulzrinne-200x267.jpg" alt="Henning Schulzrinne" style="max-width:100%;height:auto;margin-bottom:12px;clear:both;float:right;margin-left:1em;padding:4px;background-color:white;border:1px solid #ccc">Columbia University Professor, former FCC CTO, and Internet Hall-of-Famer <strong><a style="text-decoration:underline;color:#2585b2" href="https://internethalloffame.org/inductees/henning-schulzrinne" target="_blank">Henning Schulzrinne</a></strong> has written an informative backgrounder on the current U.S. Open Internet Order repeal scenario - <a style="text-decoration:underline;color:#2585b2" href="https://medium.com/@henningschulzrinne/what-the-december-14th-net-neutrality-vote-really-means-answering-your-questions-all-of-them-1ca41f55e712" target="_blank"><strong>What the December 14th Net Neutrality Vote really means: answering your questions. All of them.</strong></a> starting with the paradoxical definition of Net Neutrality - "You know it when you don’t see it."</p>
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<p style="direction:ltr;font-size:14px;line-height:1.4em;color:#444;font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;margin:0 0 1em">Clearly, rules other than those in the 2015 Order are possible within the existing Title II framework, but the current real options are variations of the 2015 Order or hoping that providers self-interest, the FTC and antitrust law will protect consumers. Unless the court overturns the 2017 Order, US consumers will be the, largely unenthusiastic, subjects of this experiment.</p>
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