The FCC’s own chief #technology officer emailed concerns about net neutrality repeal plan
December 14, 2017 | Uncategorized

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In an email sent to FCC commissioners’ offices this week, the agency’s chief technology officer expressed concerns about today’s net neutrality repeal proposal, according to a report from Politico.
The publication, citing FCC sources, reports that Eric Burger, who took the CTO job in October, wrote in the email that the proposal failed to properly account for concerns about blocking or throttling websites. “Unfortunately, I realize we do not address that at all,” Burger wrote, according to Politico. “If the ISP is transparent about blocking legal content, there is nothing the [Federal Trade Commission] can do about it unless the FTC determines it was done for anti-competitive…