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Attorney General Janet Mills Joins Suit to Stop Rollback of Net Neutrality
January 16, 2018
ATTORNEY GENERAL JANET MILLS FILES SUIT TO STOP ILLEGAL ROLLBACK OF NET NEUTRALITY
Coalition of 22 Attorneys General Files Petition for Review, Formally Commencing Lawsuit
Today Attorney General Janet Mills joined a coalition of 22 Attorneys General in filing a multistate lawsuit to block the Federal Communications Commission?s rollback of net neutrality. The coalition filed a petition for review in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, formally commencing the lawsuit against the FCC and the federal government.
The FCC?s vote to rollback net neutrality allows Internet Services Providers to slow or block access to certain sites or mobile applications, doing away with ?net neutrality? that has allowed ideas and commerce to flourish across the web. Additionally, the vote followed a public comment process that was flawed and tainted by ?fake? comments submitted during the FCC?s comment process in which nearly two million comments stole the identities of Americans from across the United States. New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman reported that over 400,000 ?fake? comments from New York, Florida, Texas and California were discovered.
?The rollback of the net neutrality rule is bad news for consumers, individuals and businesses who use the Internet daily to do banking, pay bills, do schoolwork, and do their jobs,? said Attorney General Mills. ?Additionally, if we as Americans cannot trust our government to conduct a truthful and legitimate process for one of the most significant regulatory rollbacks in this country?s history, how can we trust that this is the right decision? The FCC?s decision to vote on this matter during an ongoing investigation sends a bad message about their agenda. I am pleased to join Attorneys General from across the country in this important lawsuit to preserve and promote the public commons,? added Mills.
The multistate lawsuit was filed today in Federal Court and can be found here:
https://ag.ny.gov/sites/default/files/petition-filed.pdf
