What Exactly Is Mozilla Asking The FCC To Do About Net Neutrality?

A Q&A with Chris Riley, senior policy engineer at Mozilla which is trying to convince the Federal Communications Commission that there’s a “third way” to approach network neutrality.

Riley said, “Essentially what we are saying is to get to net neutrality you have to have the federal agency charged with overseeing communications platforms -- the FCC -- in a place where it can protect the Internet. But we're not in that place now. We're not in that place because there has been an evolution of the law in this space that has not been paying attention to the way that technology and the market have evolved. So if you look at this pattern over the last 20 years, the evolution of the technologies and the market of the Internet and the evolution of law around it are heading in different directions. What our petition does is try to merge these two things back together and reorient the law to reflect the current technology and market. And get those things working together going forward and that will arm the FCC, charged by Congress with overseeing communications in this country, to be able to move forward with real net neutrality.”