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Net neutrality repeal will be gradual on ISPs' part
The repeal of the Title II utility designation for internet service by the FCC last week means that providers can provide fast lanes for certain traffic at a cost to users, slow or even ban access to what they consider to be objectionable or competing content. While many companies already pay traditional ISPs as well as web services companies for regional servers to feed content to customers, the rates they pay may not be subject to drastic or even much movement at all.
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Mark Hamill Destroys Ted Cruz Over Net Neutrality: ‘Maybe You’re Just Distracted from Watching Porn’
If you come at the Jedi master, you best not miss. And on Sunday, Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX), who apparently did not learn a single damn thing from the embarrassment he suffered at the hands of Inigo Montoya, did just that. Let’s backtrack a bit. Prior to voting to repeal net neutrality, the Obama-era regulations that protected consumers from the corporate wrath of broadband internet service providers—thus ensuring a free and open internet for Americans of all income classes—Federal Communications Commission...
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The real battle for net neutrality begins: The people v. FCC
The FCC will not be getting the last word on the fate of net neutrality.
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Why Must The FCC Insult Everyone's Intelligence By Misrepresenting Broadband Investment?
Last month, I wrote a post detailing Ajit Pai's big lie, concerning his totally false claim that the order the FCC voted on today simply brings the internet back to where it was in 2015. As we explained that's not even remotely close to accurate. That same post also mentioned a second, but still important, lie that Pai and Pai's supporters have been telling repeatedly: that the 2015 rules harmed broadband investment.
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Nearly 20 State AGs to Sue FCC for Putting 'Corporate Profits Over Consumers'
Adding to the growing backlash among the public and members of Congress against the FCC's party-line vote on Thursday to repeal net neutrality protections, nearly 20 state attorneys general have lined up to sue the FCC, calling the Republican-controlled agency's move a violation of the law and a serious "threat to the free exchange of ideas."
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We Can Get The FCC’s Decision To Kill Net Neutrality Overturned. Here’s How.
The FCC voted Thursday to repeal all existing net neutrality protections. They are giving giant ISPs like Verizon and Comcast the power to control what we can see and do online with new fees, throttling, and censorship. This will ruin the fundamentally open nature of the internet. This fight isn’t over though, there is still a clear path to victory.
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FCC chair: Net neutrality supporters 'proven wrong' day after repeal
Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman Ajit Pai said Friday that supporters of net neutrality provisions that were repealed Thursday have been proven wrong, as internet users wake up still able to send emails and use Twitter after the regulations were struck down. Speaking on "Fox and Friends," Pai said Friday that net neutrality supporters such as ABC late-night host Jimmy Kimmel were wrong to grandstand about the end of "the internet as we know it."
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Read FCC chairman Ajit Pai’s statement on killing net neutrality
When Ajit Pai was named FCC chairman earlier this year, shortly into the start of the Trump administration, he quickly made it a goal to reverse the net neutrality rules passed in 2015. Today, he got his wish, and he explained why he felt it was appropriate in a speech ahead of the vote. In his comments, Pai reiterates a number of his regular talking points, saying once again that “the internet wasn’t broken in 2015. We weren’t living in a digital dystopia” and that “there was no problem to solve,” ignoring that internet providers had in fact blocked content at various points in recent years.
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We Can Get The FCC's Decision To Kill Net Neutrality Overturned. Here's How.
The FCC just voted to repeal all existing net neutrality protections. They are giving giant ISPs like Verizon and Comcast the power to control what we can see and do online with new fees, throttling, and censorship. This will ruin the fundamentally open nature of the internet. This fight isn’t over though, there is still a clear path to victory.
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Senator Schatz: Strike Fear in Congress by Turning Your FCC Rage into Votes
After the Republican-majority FCC voted Thursday morning to repeal the net neutrality rules adopted in 2015, Democrats in Congress mobilized quickly to introduce legislation that could, with enough support, reverse the outcome. The Congressional Review Act (CRA) empowers Congress to use a “resolution of disapproval” to overturn rules passed by federal agencies, and to pass it only requires a simple majority in both the House and Senate. In other words, it may still be possible to prevent the rules enforcing net neutrality from being dismantled—without enduring a yearlong legal battle in US Court of Appeals.
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Netflix rips net neutrality repeal: ‘This is the beginning of a longer legal battle’
Netflix on Thursday ripped the Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC) decision to repeal net neutrality rules, calling it “misguided.” “This is the beginning of a longer legal battle. Netflix stands w/ innovators, large & small, to oppose this misguided FCC order,” the company tweeted shortly after the FCC voted on the measure.
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FCC chairman jokes about being a Verizon shill, days before forcing an FCC vote that would be a boon for Verizon
Federal Communications Commission Chairman Ajit Pai probably thought he was adhering to the stand-up comedian’s precept to “know the room” when he launched himself on a jokey, self-deprecating speech last week, complete with a videotaped comedy skit. After all, he was appearing as the featured speaker at the annual dinner of the Federal Communications Bar Assn. That’s a group of which he was once a member, as an in-house Washington attorney for the big telecommunications firm Verizon.
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Washington will enforce its own version of Net Neutrality, prepares to penalize ISP's that fail to keep net neutrality within the state - Agn News
Washinton is all set to enforce its own version of net neutrality. FCC today, has voted to dismantle rules regulating the businesses that connect consumers to the internet, granting broadband companies the power to potentially reshape Americans’ online experiences. It will take weeks for the repeal to go into effect, so consumers will not see any of the potential changes right away. But the political and legal fight started immediately
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Washington will keep net neutrality in state if FCC won’t for the nation, Inslee says
Gov. Jay Inslee and other state officials announced plans to keep net neutrality in Washington if the Federal Communications Commission decides to change the national rules.
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Net neutrality: The eve of destruction
To no one's surprise, President Donald Trump and Chairman Ajit Pai's FCC has killed net neutrality, and we must live with the ugliness that will follow.
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Yes, Net Neutrality Is Being Stolen From Us in a Fucked Up, Undemocratic Heist
This is a looting by telecom monopolists and an FCC commissioner who has shown no interest in engaging with the American people. By Jason Koebler. (Dec 13, 2017)
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The FCC officially votes to kill net neutrality
Despite overwhelming opposition from Congress, technical experts, advocacy organizations and, of course, the American people, the FCC has voted to eliminate..
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US regulator set to scrap 'net neutrality' rules that protect open internet
The US’s top media regulator is to vote to end rules protecting an open internet on Wednesday, a move critics warn will hand control of the future of the web to cable and telecoms companies. At a packed meeting of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) in Washington, the watchdog’s commissioners are expected to vote three to two to dismantle the so-called “net neutrality” rules that prevent internet service providers (ISPs) from charging websites more for delivering certain services or blocking others should they, for example, compete with services the cable company also offers.
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Protesters gather as U.S. regulators meet to end net neutrality
The U.S. Federal Communications Commission is expected on Thursday to rescind rules aimed at ensuring a free and open internet, as protesters gathered to oppose the change.
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Up to 10 million net neutrality comments were bogus: NY attorney general
Children, the elderly, and dead people are among the most active in submitting input to the FCC about its net neutrality policy. That’s the conclusion you would get from reading the organization’s database of comments that’s it’s required by law to collect and consider before it changes major regulations like those protecting net neutrality. New York’s attorney general, Eric T. Schneiderman, reports today that his six-month investigation has found up to 2 million fake comments submitted on behalf of citizens around the country.
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