The US. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is skeptical of about limitation laws regarding net neutrality. The commission has formed the 'Internet Access Task Force' to examine whether net neutrality advocates’ fears of large broadband providers blocking or slowing web content from competitors are justified, the agency’s chairwoman said.
"While I am sounding cautionary notes about new legislation, let me make clear that if broadband providers engage in anticompetitive conduct, we will not hesitate to act using our existing authority," Chairwoman Deborah Platt Majoras said. "But I have to say, thus far, proponents of net neutrality regulation have not come to us to explain where the market is failing or what anticompetitive conduct we should challenge."
On the other hand, Public Knowledge, a consumer advocacy group, welcomed the FTC’s examination of net neutrality. "We certainly look forward to the analysis of an agency that exists to protect competition of the broadband market in which 98 percent of customers receive their service from either the telephone company or the cable company, if they have that choice at all," Public Knowledge President Gigi Sohn said in an e-mail. "There are no market forces at work here, much as Chairman Majoras wishes there to be."
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