COMCAST SAYS NETWORK-MANAGEMENT APPEAL ISN 扵 ABOUT NEUTRALITY

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Comcast 抯 appeal of an FCC order against its network management practices isn 抰 aboutnnet neutrality, the company 抯 top legal executive wrote on its blog. 揝ome activists insist thatnComcast 抯 challenge to the FCC is a 慺ight about net neutrality,挃 Executive Vice PresidentnDavid Cohen wrote. 揟hat 抯 simply not true. The primary basis for our challenge, and thenbasis on which we hope the court will decide this case, is that no federal agency can subjectnany company or individual to sanctions for violation of federal standards when there was nonlaw in the first place. ... It 抯 truly sad that the debate around 憂et neutrality,?or the need tonregulate to 憄reserve an open Internet,?has been filled with so much rhetoric, vituperationnand confusion.?By putting out a notice for a net neutrality rulemaking in 2009, the commissionn揵egan doing what the previous FCC should have done in the first place,?Cohen said. It willn揷reate a proper record for the FCC to consider its legal authority to proceed with any rules itnultimately decides to adopt.?