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Net neutrality backers see chance to restore the rule
Democrats in the Senate say they are just one vote short of being able to overturn the Federal Communication Commission's (FCC) rollback of net neutrality last month. The FCC voted to remove the Obama Administration's designation of the internet as a common carrier public utility. That 2015 finding required internet service providers (ISP) to treat all internet traffic the same, formally establishing the principle of net neutrality.
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Twenty-Two Attorneys General Sue the FCC Over Net Neutrality Repeal
On Tuesday, 22 state attorneys general filed a federal lawsuit against the Federal Communications Commission in response to the agency's repeal of Obama-era net neutrality regulations, the Hill reports. Last month, the FCC rolled back rules, in place since 2015, that prevented Internet service providers from blacklisting specific websites or charging different prices for faster loading speeds.
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Mozilla Files Suit Against FCC to Protect Net Neutrality
Today, Mozilla filed a petition in federal court in Washington, DC against the Federal Communications Commission for its recent decision to overturn the 2015 Open Internet Order.
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The Senate’s push to overrule the FCC on net neutrality now has 50 votes, Democrats say
Fifty senators have endorsed a legislative measure to override the Federal Communications Commission's recent decision to deregulate the broadband industry, top Democrats said Monday. The tally leaves supporters just one Republican vote shy of the 51 required to pass a Senate resolution of disapproval, in a legislative gambit aimed at restoring the agency's net neutrality rules.
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Commissioner: ‘We still need to get to the bottom’ of fake FCC comments
Federal Communications Commission (FCC) member Jessica Rosenworcel said on Friday that the commission still needed to get to the bottom to what appears to be a slew of fabricated comments filed with the FCC on the issue of net neutrality last year.
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Harvard Study Shows Why Big Telecom Is Terrified of Community-Run Broadband
Community-owned internet service providers are cheaper and better.
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States Push Back After Net Neutrality Repeal
At least six, including California, New York and Washington, are considering bills to restore protections that the F.C.C. ended, but political and legal obstacles may stand in the way.
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CIX and the real history of the modern, commercial Internet
Learn how the Commercial Internet Exchange (CIX) laid the foundation for the World Wide Web and set the stage for e-commerce as we know it today.
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“A Tale of Two Violinists – Why Net Neutrality is More Than an Economic Issue”
In 2010, a 23 year “hip-hop violinist” reached the quarter finals on America’s got Talent only to be told that: "You're not untalented, but you're ...
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US government's new broadband rules don't add up
Both Trump and the FCC say they're supporting faster broadband, but the facts tell a different story.
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Reaching the magic number 30 probably won't do much
A Senate bill that would reverse the Federal Communications Commission’s decision to repeal Net Neutrality received its 30th co-sponsor yesterday after Senator Claire McCaskill announced her supported for the bill via Twitter. Senator McCaskill then became the 30th co-sponsor, which means the bill will definitely receive a vote on the Senate floor. The bill is being pushed by junior United States Senator from Massachusetts, Ed Markey. This maneuver would use Congress’s authority under the CRA.
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The FCC thinks american broadband standards are too fast and defined too aggressively
Net neutrality, the principle that internet service providers must treat all data on the internet the same without discriminating or charging differently, is effectively dead. The Federal Communications Commission voted to repeal net neutrality on December 14 last year, dismantling net neutrality regulations. This has set the ground for the repeal to go into full effect, so the FCC chairman Ajit Pai is shifting his attention to another matter.
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Net neutrality gaining steam in state legislatures after FCC repeal
State legislators in Nebraska and California are proposing net neutrality laws to replace the US-wide ones repealed by the Federal Communications Commission. The FCC repealed its own net neutrality rules and claims the authority to prevent state and local governments from enacting their own similar net neutrality rules.
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Senate bill to reverse net neutrality repeal gains 30th co-sponsor, ensuring floor vote
A Senate bill that would reverse the Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC) decision to repeal net neutrality received its 30th co-sponsor on Monday, ensuring it will receive a vote on the Senate floor.
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California Introduces Its Own Bill to Protect Net Neutrality
2018 has barely begun, and so has the fight to preserve net neutrality. January 3 was the first day of business in the California state legislature, and state Sen. Scott Wiener used it to introduce legislation to protect net neutrality for Californians.
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What Happens When States Have Their Own Net Neutrality Rules?
FCC Chairman Ajit Pai spent 2017 dismantling Obama-era rules on net neutrality. A handful of lawmakers in liberal-leaning U.S. states plan to spend 2018 building them back up. It’s a development that the FCC anticipated — the commission’s rules include language forbidding states from doing this, warning against an unwieldy patchwork of regulations. But lawmakers in New York and California aren’t aiming to be exceptions to the national rules; they’re looking to, in effect, create their own.
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Netflix Comes Out for Net Neutrality, Tells FCC 'We Will See You in Court'
Netflix isn’t letting net neutrality go without a fight. The streaming giant retweeted its support for the Internet Association’s Friday announcement it would “intervene in judicial action to preserve net neutrality protections.” The IA plans on pushing back against the FCC’s decision last month to pull back Obama-era regulations that blocked internet providers from blocking access to particular sites, as well as creating paid “fast lanes” to view content.
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Don’t pirate or we’ll mess with your thermostat, warns East Coast ISP
Internet slowdowns at home aren't just annoying anymore. They can be hazardous to your health or dangerous if you're in an area that freezes. Internet service...
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FCC Chairman Ajit Pai canceled his appearance at CES because of death threats
Federal Communications Commission Chairman Ajit Pai canceled his scheduled appearance at a major upcoming tech industry trade show after receiving death threats, two agency sources told Recode on Thursday. It’s the second known incident in which Pai’s safety may have been at risk, after a bomb threat abruptly forced the chairman to halt his controversial vote to scrap the U.S. government’s net neutrality rules in December 2017.
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“Vote out” congresspeople who won’t back net neutrality, advocates say
Some supporters of net neutrality are focusing their attention on Congress and vowing to vote out lawmakers who won't join a legislative effort to reinstate net neutrality rules. "If they don't vote for net neutrality, let's vote them out," says the website launched yesterday by advocacy group Fight for the Future, which also organized recent protests.
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