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Won’t Save It. It’s Time to Start Building.  Net Neutrality is
dead as of Tuesday. A D.C. appeals court, acting on a petition
by Verizon, declared that the FCC lacked the authority to…   Net
Neutrality is dead as of Tuesday.  A D.C. appeals court, acting
on a petition by Verizon, declared that the FCC lacked the
authority to enforce the compromise rules it imposed on the
telecoms in 2011 that provide your home and mobile phones with
internet services.  These rules were intended to let you use the
devices and online services of your choice and to prevent
Comcast, Verizon and AT&T from mucking with the network to serve
their self-interest.  This was not a decision based on a
“technicality.” Instead the judges ruled based on something
fundamental.  The court essentially said the FCC must decide if
the companies that are given rights-of-way along public roads
and which have licenses to huge swaths of licensed radio
spectrum are to be treated like regula