Comcast Had "Fair Notice" Not To Block Speech and Innovation Online

[Commentary] Comcast claims that the Federal Communications Commission has been unfair to the cable giant. Namely Comcast lacked "fair notice" the FCC would act on consumer complaints about Network Neutrality violations. Moreover, Comcast claims it lacked fair notice that the FCC would judge Comcast by the standards of the FCC's well-known 2005 Internet Policy Statement, which declared that Americans are "entitled" to use the legal applications and content of their choice on the Internet. Although Comcast doesn't mention this part of the 2008 ruling, the FCC also stated that Comcast's actions in that proceeding raised "troubling questions about Comcast's candor," which is the bureaucratic way to say "lying... a lot... to the public and government, about interfering with the Internet." And all this about fair notice, when Comcast gave the public no notice at all that it was blocking online technologies.