Free Press Files in Support of FCC Comcast Order

In a legal brief filed Monday with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit, Free Press and five other organizations backed the Federal Communications Commission's authority to protect Internet users' right to an open Internet. The brief defends the FCC's decision in 2008 to act on a complaint, also filed by Free Press and its allies, asking the FCC to stop Comcast's illegal Internet blocking. Comcast appealed the order, challenging the FCC's jurisdiction and procedures. The appeal is currently in the D.C. Circuit Court and no argument date has yet been scheduled.