The tech industry and activists hailed yesterday's long-awaited Federal Communications Commission vote on net neutrality rules, saying startups and other innovative companies no longer have to fear that they might be required to ante up to compete with more established businesses on the Internet.
"If the FCC had not taken this step, then the Internet was headed down a path in which it becomes unrecognizable ... an Internet in which the people who provide access to the Internet make decisions based on their commercial interest," said David Weinberger, a senior researcher at the Harvard Berkman Center for Internet and Society.
"The strength of the Internet has always been that it's not designed for any particular service — users get to decide what matters to them, what they think the Internet is for. The access providers were turning the Internet into a type of cable TV."
The rules, approved by the FCC on a 3-2 vote, reclassify the Internet as a public utility, making it subject to tighter regulation. They prevent companies such as Comcast, Verizon and AT&T from creating paid fast lanes and slowing or blocking Web traffic.
"Net neutrality is essential for the continued prosperity of the Web as we've known it," said Bob Davis, a venture capitalist with Highland Capital Partners. "A ruling on the other side of this would have been devastating."
Davis said the rules will ensure startups do not have a higher barrier to entry than entrenched companies.
Chad Dickerson, chief executive of Etsy.com, told the FCC equal traffic speeds are essential for his business.
"We know that delays of milliseconds have a direct and long-term impact on revenue," Dickerson said. "I'm here to thank you for taking action to protect the Internet as a platform for entrepreneurship and innovation."
Evan Greer of Fight for the Future, an Internet advocacy group, said net neutrality will preserve open access to information.
"This isn't about how quickly our cat videos load," Greer said. "This is actually about the future of freedom of speech ... and the freedom of our democracy."
Verizon saw it differently, releasing a statement made to appear as if it were written on a typewriter to draw attention to the FCC's reliance on 1934 legislation to regulate the Internet. The statement, that called the rules "misguided," also was released in Morse Code.
The broadband industry is expected to sue over the new rules.
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