The central objection raised to it is that it is banning a specific set of applications, in apparent direct contravention to the FCC's Open Internet Report and Order (for which Google actively lobbied) which requires providers of fixed broadband services to permit customers the use of any legal applications and devices on the network.
There is discussion of whether it falls within the scope of the reasonable network management limitation to that requirement, but given that all of the examples given in the Report and Order suggest that that exception is appropriate when various mechanisms of imposing in a use-neutral manner on the quantity of traffic to assure fairness among users of the same service when faced with load that, if all demands were met, would saturate the network, it doesn't look on its face like its an obvious candidate.
The central objection raised to it is that it is banning a specific set of applications, in apparent direct contravention to the FCC's Open Internet Report and Order (for which Google actively lobbied) which requires providers of fixed broadband services to permit customers the use of any legal applications and devices on the network.
There is discussion of whether it falls within the scope of the reasonable network management limitation to that requirement, but given that all of the examples given in the Report and Order suggest that that exception is appropriate when various mechanisms of imposing in a use-neutral manner on the quantity of traffic to assure fairness among users of the same service when faced with load that, if all demands were met, would saturate the network, it doesn't look on its face like its an obvious candidate.