[20190410]IF10955_宽带网络接入：网路中立.pdf

https:/crsreports.congress.gov Updated April 10, 2019Access to Broadband Networks: Net NeutralityThe move to place restrictions on the owners of the networks that comprise and provide access to the internet, to ensure equal access and nondiscriminatory treatment, is referred to as “net neutrality.” While there is no single accepted definition of net neutrality most agree that any such definition should include the general principles that owners of the networks that comprise and provide access to the internet should not control how consumers lawfully use that network; and should not be able to discriminate against content provider access to that network. Determining the appropriate framework to ensure an open internet is central to the debate over broadband access, and is an issue that the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has been grappling with for decades. Some policymakers contend that more proscriptive regulations, such as those contained in the FCCs 2015 Open Internet Order (2015 Order), are necessary to protect the marketplace from potential abuses which could threaten the net neutrality concept. Others contend that existing laws and the current, less restrictive appro