Local ISP sees net neutrality’s demise

Equal protection of data under the law could be removed from the internet for US users. At a recent Keweenaw County Board meeting, Pasty.Net president Charles Hopper discussed the probability that net neutrality laws would be repealed in November by the Federal Communications Commission. Hopper offered one example of the burdens placed on his company as a result of being placed under Title II. “We had regulation start coming down us,” he said, “and we had to start filling out a semi-annual form called the 477 form, which reports all of the towers that we’re on, all of the users that we serve, and this all went into a publicly searchable data base.” The 477 forms are time-consuming and a financial drain for ISPs, Hopper said.