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Concerns grow among YouTubers, Twitch personalities as net neutrality vote looms
Any small business owner will preach about the importance of foot traffic to achieving sales success. Access to small businesses is what helps drive traffic. Most entrepreneurs will tell anyone who listens that if people can’t easily access a shop or are diverted away from it to a bigger chain store, independent, small business is doomed.
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Colorado’s Mike Coffman is first Republican U.S. Rep. to ask FCC to delay vote on net neutrality
U.S. Rep. Mike Coffman on Tuesday became the first Republican to urge regulators to delay a vote on net neutrality, which would repeal open internet rules adopted two years ago. In a letter to Ajit V. Pai, the Federal Communications Commission chairman who proposed the rollback, Coffman said that altering the rules “may well have significant unanticipated negative consequences.” He asked Pai to let Congress hold hearings on the issue and pass open internet laws.
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Net neutrality repeal means you're going to hate your cable company even more
If you’re like most Americans, odds are you’re not a fan of your cable company. You can probably think of at least one experience that had you pulling your hair out. In fact, from year to year, cable companies consistently rank at the very bottom of the American Consumer Satisfaction Index. But if you think things are bad, they’re about to get much worse under the Federal Communications Commission’s plan to turn control of the Internet over to your cable and Internet provider.
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Overwhelming Bipartisan Majority Opposes Repealing Net Neutrality
Overwhelming bipartisan majorities oppose the plan that the Federal Communications Commission will consider this Thursday, December 14, to repeal the regulations requiring net neutrality. Respondents were given a short briefing and asked to evaluate arguments for and against the proposal before making their final recommendation. The survey content was reviewed by experts in favor and against net neutrality, to ensure that the briefing was accurate and balanced, and that the strongest arguments were presented.
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France’s Top Internet Regulator Has a Message for Americans on Net Neutrality
Whether to retain or remove net neutrality protections in the United States, as the Federal Communications Commission will decide this Thursday, is an American question. But it’s good to know how it works in other democracies. As the chairman of both France’s regulatory agency for telecommunications and the Body of European Regulators for Electronic Communications, or BEREC, I believe it is my duty to share some evidence from Europe.
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FCC commissioner trolls Ajit Pai with net neutrality ‘suggested edits’
The FCC’s proposed rollback of net neutrality rules is expected to pass this week, but that doesn’t mean everyone on the commission is pleased with the idea. The two Democratic Commissioners, who helped pass net neutrality protections in 2015, have been vocally opposed to the plan, spearheaded by Republican Chairman Ajit Pai.
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The Folks That Built The Internet Tell The FCC It Has No Idea How The Internet Works
By now the FCC has made it clear it has absolutely no intention of actually listening to the public or to experts when it comes to its plan to repeal popular net neutrality rules later this week. It doesn't really matter to the FCC's myopic majority that the vast majority of the record 22 million public comments on its plan think it's a stupid idea. It apparently doesn't matter than over 800 startups have warned the FCC that its attack on the rules undermines innovation, competition, and the health of the internet.
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Ajit Pai claims net neutrality hurt small ISPs, but data says otherwise
ISPs supposedly harmed by the rules expanded to new areas and installed fiber.
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Net neutrality: 'father of internet' joins tech leaders in condemning repeal plan
More than 20 internet pioneers and leaders including the “father of the internet”, Vint Cerf; the inventor of the world wide web, Tim Berners-Lee; and the Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak have urged the FCC to cancel its vote to repeal net neutrality, describing the plan as “based on a flawed and factually inaccurate” understanding of how the internet works.
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In Defense Of Net Neutrality, Internet Pioneers Accuse FCC Of Not Understanding Tech
On Thursday, the FCC will vote to eliminate regulations that prohibit internet service providers from blocking, slowing, or speeding up the delivery of data based on business relationships they have with the content providers. Having failed to sway the agency to change course, opponents are making a last-ditch effort to save neutrality by asking Congress to intervene—at least delaying the vote until a few outstanding matters, like potentially a million fraudulent public comments, can be sorted out.
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FCC chair still refuses to help investigate net neutrality comment fraud
The Federal Communications Commission has again refused to help New York's attorney general investigate impersonation and other fraud in public comments on the FCC's net neutrality repeal. For the past six months, New York State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman has been "investigating who perpetrated a massive scheme to corrupt the FCC's notice and comment process" by filing fraudulent comments under real people's names. But FCC Chairman Ajit Pai's office has "refused multiple requests for crucial evidence in its sole possession," Schneiderman wrote in an open letter to Pai last month.
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The FCC plans to repeal net neutrality this week — and it could ruin the internet
It's inevitable — this week, the Federal Communications Commission will drive a stake in net neutrality. On December 14, the agency will vote to repeal the net neutrality rules it put in place in 2015. With Republicans commissioners who oppose the rules outnumbering Democrats who favor them three to two, the outcome of the vote isn't in any doubt. Your protests and #netneutrality tweets will do nothing — this is really happening.
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Why FCC Should Delay the Net Neutrality Vote Until It Investigates Comment Fraud
When Netflix debuted the second season of Stranger Things on October 27, more than 15 million people watched the first episode in the following three days. But the strangest thing about Stranger Things? Its early audience was bigger than some of this year's World Series games.
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Maloney Introduces Legislation to Save the Open Internet, Block FCC Rollback of Net Neutrality
WASHINGTON — Days before the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) will vote on its proposed rollback of Net Neutrality rules that protect the open internet, Representative Sean Patrick Maloney (NY-18) introduced the Save Net Neutrality Act (H.R. 4585) to stop the FCC’s Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) that would result in a final rule eliminating the existing Net Neutrality policy.
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We’re thinking about internet freedom in all the wrong ways
There is no public space on the internet. This needs to change. By Navneet Alang.
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FCC rejects NY AG's probe into net neutrality comments
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) denied the New York attorney general’s request for information about comments filed in the agency’s net neutrality record. Thomas Johnson, the FCC’s general counsel, sent a letter to Attorney General Eric Schneiderman (D) on Thursday saying that the commission would not be handing over logs Schneiderman requested in order to investigate fake comments.
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What the Internet Is Like in Countries Without Net Neutrality
The change won’t happen all at once. It will be subtle—which makes it scarier.
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“Face reality! We need net neutrality!” Crowds chant across the country
Protestors across the nation rallied in support for network neutrality on Thursday, a week before the Federal Communications Commission is scheduled to take a historic vote rolling back network neutrality regulations. Protestors say those regulations, which were enacted by the Obama FCC in 2015, are crucial for protecting an open Internet.
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Net neutrality protesters take to the streets
Protesters gathered in front of Verizon stores around the US on Thursday in a last-ditch effort to save Obama-era net neutrality rules. The protests were organized by several advocacy groups, including Fight for the Future, in the hope of pressuring Republicans in Congress to stop the FCC from rolling back the controversial rules adopted in 2015 under President Barack Obama.
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La La La, I can't hear you: FCC responds to net neut concerns
With just a week to go before the head of the FCC will put his plan for a repeal of current net neutrality rules up for a vote, Ajit Pai has come under another barrage of criticism, this time with a focus on consumer protection. Despite claiming that his proposal will protect consumers by handing over responsibility for dealing with ISP complaints to the consumer-focused sister regulator the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), Pai's assertion has been questioned by dozens of organizations and even an FTC Commissioner.
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