April 24, 2015 - 1:40 PM
By Rudy Takala
(CNSNews.com) -- The number of lawsuits filed by industry groups against the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) over its new "net neutrality" rules continued to grow, with a seventh organization joining the pack last Friday.
The list of those suing the FCC now includes three Internet Service Providers (ISPs) and four trade associations united in opposition to the FCC's decision that reclassifies ISPs as Title II utilities.
The controversial rules, which passed the FCC on a 3-2 party-line vote in February, give the FCC the authority to impose the principles of “net neutrality”. Those principles include the idea that ISPs should not be able to block Websites or throttle traffic on the Internet.
Although all of the groups filing suit expressed support for the principles of net neutrality, they argued that the FCC had exceeded its authority in reclassifying the Internet as a utility.
Net neutrality could have been imposed by using a different type of regulatory authority, but the FCC voted to use the much more invasive power afforded to it by the Communications Act of 1934.
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