Broadband Breakfast on August 14, 2024 - Net Neutrality, Chevron Deference and the Sixth Circuit Stay

The Federal Communications Commission faces mounting setbacks in its bid to reinstate Net Neutrality rules. The Supreme Court's recent overturning of the Chevron doctrine stripped federal agencies of their authority to make decisions on major economic and political issues without clearer congressional intent. Further, the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals recently stayed the FCC's proposed net neutrality rules, effectively halting their implementation. With FCC's authority curtailed, what's next for Net Neutrality? What are the potential consequences for consumers and internet innovation?

Panelists

• Stephanie Joyce, Senior Vice President and Chief of Staff, CCIA- the Computer & Communications Industry Association
• Blake Reid, Associate Professor of Law, Colorado Law
• Daniel Lyons, Professor and Associate Dean of Academic Affairs, Boston College Law School
• Seth Cooper, Director of Policy Studies and Senior Fellow, The Free State Foundation
• Drew Clark (moderator), Editor and Publisher, Broadband Breakfast

Stephanie Joyce is Senior Vice President and Chief of Staff at CCIA - the Computer & Communications Industry Association. She joins CCIA after decades in private practice representing technology companies and competitive carriers before state and federal administrative agencies and courts. She is an experienced advocate for procompetitive policy, including her advocacy for CCIA at the FCC on broadband deployment and Open Internet rules. Stephanie has also provided counsel to telecommunications companies, as well as CCIA, on privacy matters.

Blake E. Reid researches and writes on law, policy, and technology, with a focus on telecommunications, internet, copyright, and disability law. He's an Associate Professor of Law at Colorado Law, where he serves as the Faculty Director of the Telecom and Platforms Initiative at the Silicon Flatirons Center. His work has been published in the Stanford Law Review, California Law Review, and Indiana Law Journal, and in 2023 he joined the author team for Communications Law and Policy: Cases and Materials, an open-access telecommunications law casebook, with Jerry Kang and Alan Butler.

Daniel Lyons is a professor, the Associate Dean of Academic Affairs, and the Dean's Distinguished Scholar at Boston College Law School. He specializes in property, telecommunications and internet law, and administrative law. Lyons has testified before Congress and state legislatures, and has participated in numerous proceedings at the Federal Communications Commission. He is also a nonresident senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, where he has written more than 150 blog posts on tech policy issues.

Seth L. Cooper is Director of Policy Studies and a Senior Fellow at The Free State Foundation. He is the author of numerous articles and essays on federal telecommunications and technology policy, regulatory reform, and intellectual property. Mr. Cooper’s work has appeared in such publications as the Washington Examiner, The Washington Times, The Tennessean, and the San Jose Mercury News. He previously served as the Telecommunications and Information Technology Task Force Director at the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), as a Washington State Supreme Court judicial clerk, and as a state senate caucus staff counsel. Mr. Cooper was a 2009 Lincoln Fellow at the Claremont Institute.

Breakfast Media LLC CEO Drew Clark has led the Broadband Breakfast community since 2008. An early proponent of better broadband, better lives, he initially founded the Broadband Census crowdsourcing tool to collect and verify broadband data left unpublished by the Federal Communications Commission. As CEO and Publisher, Clark presides over the leading media community advocating for higher-capacity internet everywhere through topical, timely and intelligent coverage. Clark also served as head of the Partnership for a Connected Illinois, a state broadband initiative.