Law Prof van Schewick Calls Net Neutrality Ruling 'a Radical Decision’

WASHINGTON, Jan. 9, 2025—Another net neutrality autopsy has rolled in following the Federal Communications Commission’s recent defeat in a landmark net neutrality case. 

On Jan. 2, a panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit ruled that the FCC lacked authority to impose common carrier regulation on broadband Internet Service Providers like AT&T and Comcast.

In reaction, Stanford Law professor Barbara van Schewick–who feared 5G network slicing would create discriminatory fast lanes–called the Sixth Circuit's decision to void the FCC's net neutrality rules "a huge setback for American consumers and businesses that rely on the Internet."