By John Eggerton, Multichannel News, 6-8-21
ISPs have spent most of two decades fighting the urge from Democrats and some in Silicon Valley to define Internet access as a common carrier service and impose some version of utility style regulation on ISPs, but now edge provider giants are getting a taste of their own medicine.
Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost, a Republican, has filed on behalf of the state what his office was billing as a “landmark” lawsuit to have Google declared a public utility so it can be held to nondiscriminatory access regulations when it comes to showing search results. » Read More