Thursday, November 30, 2017

Where does Cox Communications stand on Net Neutrality?

Cox Communications provides Internet, Cable TV and phone bundles so it might not surprise you that they have traditionally opposed net neutrality. Net neutrality is the idea that Internet service providers should treat all content equally, not favoring one type of content or one provider over other content or provider.
Recently Ajit Pai, the chairman of the Federal Communications Commission has said he will be getting rid of the net neutrality rules put into effect in 2015 by the Democratic led FCC. Back then pretty much all of the big ISPs opposed the rules. Cox Communications was one of them. And to be fair the rules are not perfect. The rules don't do anything about the privacy violations of the so called "edge providers" like Google and Facebook but maybe that is beyond the scope of "net neutrality" and should be addressed separately.
Stands to reason that as an Internet Service Provider, Cox Communications would still oppose the rules. It doesn't look like Cox Communications has publicly made a statement about net neutrality recently but the last one they made, earlier this year, was against net neutrality. In April, when Ajit Pai made a statement that he was looking at repealing the rules Cox was all for the repeal. Of course, since Cox is a provider of Internet, Cable TV and voice bundles, Cox will probably continue to give lip service to net neutrality while seeking to undermine it.

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