A federal appeals court made an instructive point about net neutrality Thursday by doing nothing. Well, OK, that's not entirely accurate. The Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit issued an denying the telephone and cable companies' to suspend the , which go into effect Friday. The terse order said the companies had not "satisfied the stringent requirements for a stay pending court review." Had Verizon not challenged the rules the industry now says it has no problem with, ISPs wouldn't be in the situation they're in today. - Feel free to read into the order two things. First, despite the phone and cable companies' assertions to the contrary, the lawsuit...
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