access provider

“I don’t think that any state level regulation is going to stop Dr. Gomperts from what she’s doing,” said Christie Pitney, a California nurse-midwife who is Aid Access’ provider for that state and Massachusetts.

She argues, “Zoom could choose to be neutral infrastructure, like Comcast, or it can choose to be YouTube. Given how dependent we all now are on Zoom, we need it to act more like an access provider, because that’s really what it is. No one looks to Comcast or AT&T to moderate everything that happens on its infrastructure.”

Rules to “protect Internet users’ rights and to treat traffic in a non-discriminatory manner preclude an internet access provider from favouring certain applications and services” through zero tariff packages and blocking or slowing traffic, the court said.

Rules to “protect Internet users’ rights and to treat traffic in a non-discriminatory manner preclude an internet access provider from favouring certain applications and services” through zero tariff packages and blocking or slowing traffic, the court said.

“The requirements to protect internet users’ rights and to treat traffic in a non-discriminatory manner preclude an internet access provider from favouring certain applications and services by means of packages enabling those applications and services to benefit from a ‘zero tariff’ and making the use of the other applications and services subject to measures blocking or slowing down traffic,” judges said.