Good Riddance to Net Neutrality

A federal appeals court smacks down Biden’s FCC regulators

WSJ editorial. Excerpts:

"The Sixth Circuit panel ruled 3-0 that the FCC exceeded its statutory authority, citing the Supreme Court’s 6-3 landmark Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo decision last year. Loper Bright overturned the Court’s Chevron doctrine, which required judges to defer to an agency’s interpretations of a supposedly vague law as long as it was “reasonable.”"

"The panel held that broadband providers are properly considered an “information service,” and as such can’t be regulated as common carriers."

"Democrats invoked a decades-old law so they could expand political control over the internet. The resulting regulatory uncertainty was one reason investment fell after the Obama rule. After Mr. Trump’s first-term FCC Chair Ajit Pai repealed the Obama rule, investment increased."