Net Neutrality

Cybersecurity Crisis Training: Stakeholder Press Conference Exercise (Neutrality)

Purpose: This exercise is designed to give you practical experience in handling real-life events for their organization. Through this exercise, you will better understand how the types of regulations described in class are applied, take a shot at forming policy solutions, and sharpen communication.

Deliverables: Prepare a sample press packet. This press packet should include the following items:

Press Release (1 page)

Short technical background sheet (1-2 pages)

This section should describe in more detail the technical issues of the problem at hand.

It may also include pictures and diagrams.

Frequently Asked Questions (1 page)

This section should anticipate questions other stakeholders or the media would ask in response to the problem and should provide your organizations answers.

Preparation: Read the material found via the links below. Additional research on stakeholder positions is strongly suggested as well. You may use any resource you deem necessary to prepare your statement, press kit, and for Q&A.

Potential roles:

There are two important stakeholder roles in this cybersecurity crisis situation. You may choose to take on one of the different roles:

Federal Communications Commission

Content Providers

Internet Service Providers

Consumers

The Communications Act of 1934, specifically Title II of that act, which defines the concept of "common carriers.". According to the act, a common carrier is "any person engaged as a common carrier for hire, in interstate or foreign communication by wire or radio or in interstate or foreign radio transmission of energy...". Essentially, Title II classification would mean that ISPs aren't transmitting a proprietary productinternet traffic is a common, public service that companies deliver. UPS delivers packages that don't belong to them in the same way that internet packets don't belong to ISPsthey're a product they deliver. If Title II is enough justification to regulate ISPs then section 202 is what stops them from being able to throttle or prioritize traffic:

The other commonly argued basis for net neutrality comes from the Telecommunications Act of 1996, and section 706 The Open Internet Order of 2010 is a set of rules proposed by the United States Federal Communications Commission with the purpose of maintaining an open and neutral internet that supports free speech and generally treats all traffic as equal.

The rules of the order include:

No unreasonable discrimination. Providers may not unreasonably discriminate against users for lawful traffic.

No blocking. The principles of fair selection and use should be allowed so long as these choices do not break the law or negatively affect the performance of the network.

Transparency. Service providers must clearly disclose network management practices, speeds and terms of use to consumers.

The Federal Communications Commissions repeal of net neutrality rules, which had required internet service providers to offer equal access to all web content, took effect on June 1, 2018.

Your assignment is to explore this incident further, using your research to present it from the perspective of your stakeholder. Your goal is to publish a press release which explains the controversy and your organizations future plans or suggested policy changes in response to it.

Note: For the timing of the exercise, we will assume its after the repeal on June 1, 2018.

Sources and Additional Reading:

1. F.C.C. Repeals Net Neutrality Rules

2. What Is the "Save the Internet Act"? The New Plan to Restore Net Neutrality

3. Net Neutrality 2019 Legislation

Be sure to conduct your own additional research to supplement the readings above.

View your assignment rubric.

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EFF Press Release:

As you all have heard, some members of some members of Congress and the Senate have proposed two bills that could potentiality threaten the millions of Internet users around the world the right to freely express themselves. The bills are the Stop Online Piracy Act or SOPA, and the Protect IP Act or PIPA. We at Electronic Frontier Foundation, along with the ACLU, Wikipeadia, Mozilla Foundation, and many more wonderful organizations, believe SOPA and PIPA will do nothing more than to censor content on the Internet. These bills are intended to stop foreign websites from distributing copyrighted material over the Internet. This material can include movies, music, TV shows, video games, and any other type of material that is not owned by the user. There are already laws on the books that protect copyrighted material ("SOPA/PIPA: Internet Blacklist Legislation," n.d.). The most well known law is the Digital Millennium Copyright Act or DMCA. The DMCA was created in 1998 to update the then current copyright laws in order to aid with the special challenges of regulating the new digital material. The overall goal of DMCA was to protect the rights of both copyright owners and the consumers (Rouse, 2011). Copyright laws allow for fair use of the copy protected material. Fair use allows for criticism and commentary, news reporting, research and scholarship, nonprofit educational uses, and parody ("'Fair Use' Rule: When Use of Copyrighted Material Is Acceptable," 2011). We believe that SOPA and PIPA will do nothing more than throw fair use out the window. If these bill are passed, then any content which exists on the Internet may actually violate U.S. copyright law.

Technical Information:

The idea behind SOPA and PIPA have been aggressively lobbied for by the Big Media corporations for many years. The idea would allow a any company that believes a website had violated their intellectual property rights, rightly or wrongly and for substantive reasons or simply because it fulfills their commercial or political agenda, to file a complaint with the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ). Filling a complaint to the DOJ under SOPA and PIPA could result in the accused website disappearing all together. Not by actually shutting down the offending website, but by requiring every Internet Service Provider (ISP) to disable the resolution of the site's name by the Domain Name Service (DNS) to an IP address. If DNS resolution is prevented then the site effectively disappears from the Internet. All the evidence DOJ needs for this to happen is only a detailed complaint conforming to the acts' requirements, which are minimal. The alleged offending website would have little or no opportunity to defend itself before it disappeared from the World Wide Web all together (Gibbs, 2012).

Not only could these laws violate the First Amendment to the Constitution, but they could also violate the Sixth Amendment as well. The Sixth Amendment guarantees the rights of criminal defendants, including the right to a public trial without unnecessary delay, the right to a lawyer, the right to an impartial jury, and the right to know who your accusers are and the nature of the charges and evidence against you. Also known as due process ("Sixth Amendment," n.d.).

Aside from violating everyones rights, there is another unwelcome side effect to SOPA and PIPA; security issues. Altering with DNS resolutions would completely weaken Internet security. A white paper written by Steve Crocker, Danny McPherson, Dan Kaminsky, David Dagon and Paul Vixie called "Security and Other Technical Concerns Raised by the DNS Filtering Requirements in the Protect Intellectual Property Bill" argues that: "From an operational standpoint, a resolution failure from a nameserver subject to a court order and from a hacked nameserver would be indistinguishable. Users running secure applications have a need to distinguish between policy-based failures and failures caused, for example, by the presence of an attack or a hostile network, or else downgrade attacks would likely be prolific." (Gibbs, 2012).

If passed, the only thing SOPA and PIPA would do is violate everyones constitutional rights and put the security of hundreds of millions of Internet users from around the world at risk. Piracy is very real and it needs to be addressed, but not like this. We must do all we can to stop SOPA and PIPA from becoming a law. The security and rights of every Internet user is a stake.

FAQ:

Why was SOPA and PIPA created? To combat rogue sites. That is what Hollywood' calls websites that happen to be located in a nation more hospitable to copyright infringement than the United States.

How would SOPA work? SOPA would allow the U.S. attorney general to seek a court order against the targeted offshore website that would, in turn, be served on Internet providers in an effort to make the target virtually disappear.

How is SOPA different from the earlier Senate bill called the PIPA? PIPA targeted only domain name system providers, financial companies, and ad network, not the companies that provide Internet connectivity. SOPA is much broader, as it would target the ISPs as well.

What are the security related implications of SOPA? The main security issue one is how it interacts with the domain name system and a set of security improvements to it known as DNSSEC. DNSSEC was created to promote end-to-end encryption of domain names. This means there is no break in the chain between, for example, your banks website and you. Requiring ISPa to redirect a pirate domain name to, the FBI's servers isn't compatible with DNSSEC (McCullagh, 2012).

References:

The 'Fair Use' Rule: When Use of Copyrighted Material Is Acceptable. (2011, October 10). Retrieved from https://www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/fair-use-rule-copyright-material-30100.html

Gibbs, M. (2012, January 27). The real reasons why SOPA and PIPA are real bad. Retrieved from https://www.networkworld.com/article/2185230/the-real-reasons-why-sopa-and-pipa-are-real-bad.html

McCullagh, D. (2012, January 18). How SOPA would affect you: FAQ. Retrieved from https://www.cnet.com/news/how-sopa-would-affect-you-faq/

Rouse, M. (2011, March). What is Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA)? - Definition from WhatIs.com. Retrieved from https://whatis.techtarget.com/definition/Digital-Millennium-Copyright-Act-DMCA

Sixth Amendment. (n.d.). Retrieved from https://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution/sixth_amendment

SOPA/PIPA: Internet Blacklist Legislation. (n.d.). Retrieved from https://www.eff.org/issues/coica-internet-censorship-and-copyright-bill