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FCC Axes Rules That Help Keep Your DSL Line Working
The FCC is once again under fire, this time for gutting rules protecting users from losing access to their fixed-line broadband connections as companies like AT&T and Verizon shift their focus to wireless. As we've long noted, Verizon and AT&T have refused to upgrade millions of DSL customers they're no longer interested in. So for years they've been convincing states to gut regulations governing these highly-taxpayer subsidized lines, arguing that wireless connectivity will be "good enough" for many of these users.
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Net Neutrality: What You Need to Know Now
When you go online you have certain expectations. You expect to be connected to whatever website you want. You expect that your cable or phone company isn’t messing with the data and is connecting you to all websites, applications and content you choose. You expect to be in control of your internet experience. When you use the internet you expect Net Neutrality.
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The U.S. government is using Thanksgiving to hide its plans to destroy net neutrality
The timeless art of the news dump.
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The FCC just repealed a 42-year-old rule blocking broadcast media mergers
Federal regulators rolled back decades-old rules on Thursday, making it far easier for media outlets to be bought and sold — potentially leading to more newspapers, radio stations and television broadcasters being owned by a handful of companies. The regulations, eliminated in a 3-to-2 vote by the Federal Communications Commission, were first put in place in the 1970s to ensure that a diversity of voices and opinions could be...
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Report: FCC Plans To Vote To Overturn Net Neutrality Rules In December
The head of the Federal Communications Commission is set to unveil plans next week for a final vote to reverse a landmark 2015 net neutrality order barring the blocking or slowing of web content, two people briefed on the plans said. In May, the FCC voted 2-1 to advance Republican FCC Chairman Ajit Pai’s plan to withdraw the former Obama administration’s order reclassifying internet service providers as if they were utilities.
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FCC plans to vote to overturn U.S. net neutrality rules in December: sources
The head of the Federal Communications Commission is set to unveil plans next week for a final vote to reverse a landmark 2015 net neutrality order barring the blocking or slowing of web content, two people briefed on the plans said.
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Tim Berners-Lee on the future of the web: 'The system is failing'
The inventor of the world wide web remains an optimist but sees a ‘nasty wind’ blowing amid concerns over advertising, net neutrality and fake news
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Comcast asks the FCC to prohibit states from enforcing net neutrality
Comcast met with Federal Communications Commission Chairman Ajit Pai's staff this week in an attempt to prevent states from issuing net neutrality rules. As the FCC prepares to gut its net neutrality rules, broadband providers are worried that states might enact their own laws to prevent ISPs from blocking, throttling, or discriminating against online content.
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This is what your internet service could look like without Net Neutrality
As it currently stands in the US, net neutrality rules exist to ensure a level playing field on the internet, and the FCC is able to enforce them by classifying broadband service as a utility. That is likely to change under the current administration, and if you're wondering what the web could look like without rules in place to prevent ISPs from doing whatever they want, just look at Portugal.
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Dead People Mysteriously Support The FCC's Attack On Net Neutrality
We've noted for months how an unknown party has been using bots to bombard the FCC website with entirely bogus support for the agency's planned attack on net neutrality. Inquiries so far have indicated that whatever group or individual is...
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The Web began dying in 2014
Here's how. By André Staltz.
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Federal move to undo internet freedom would make US more like Russia, not less
This week, three congressional committee hearings will probe Russian attempts to influence our election campaign last year on social media. S.1989, the recently introduced, so-called “Honest Ads Act,” likely will feature prominently. The bill is being sold “first and foremost [as addressing] an issue of national security.”
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The FCC will soon vote to kill net neutrality. But Congress can stop them if they hear from constituents now.
Yesterday afternoon the House subcommittee that provides Congressional oversight for the FCC held an important hearing about the agency’s current plans, including current Chairman (and former Verizon lawyer) Ajit Pai’s move to gut Title II net neutrality protections that prevent ISPs from controlling what we do online with throttling, censorship, and extra fees.
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The FCC is actively working against consumers
The Federal Communications Commission is arguably the federal government’s least-loved and geekiest body. 30 seconds of talk about rural broadband deployments and spectrum allocation is enough to send most people running from the room. But don’t be fooled: the FCC wields a huge amount of power over one of the nation’s most critical pieces of infrastructure, and right now, it’s a mess.
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Key net debate 'controlled by bots'
More than 80% of the comments submitted to a US regulator on the future of net neutrality came from bots, according to researchers. Data analytics company Gravwell said only 17.4% of the comments were unique. Most of the 22 million comments submitted to the Federal Communications Commission over the summer had been against net neutrality, it suggested. One expert said the findings posed a risk to future polls.
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FCC Chairman Ajit Pai accused of cherry-picking data to repeal net neutrality
Pai says that the introduction of net neutrality rules in 2015 caused investment from carriers to go down by 9 percent, but his claim is rather misleading.
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Steve Wozniak: Net neutrality rollback ‘will end the internet as we know it’
In an op-ed, Wozniak and Michael Copps, who led the FCC from 2001 to 2011, argued the rollback will threaten freedom for internet users and may corrode democracy.
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Wozniak & Copps: Ending net neutrality will end the Internet as we know it
The FCC should not let a few giant gatekeepers speed up and slow down their preferred sites and services. It should move us all into the fast lane.
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Neutering Net Neutrality
In 2015, net neutrality advocates celebrated what seemed to be the final step in ensuring an open internet when the Federal Communications Commission officially reclassified broadband internet service as a public utility, just like telephone lines. But the celebration has been short-lived. Soon after the Trump administration entered the White House, the FCC’s new Chairman Ajit Pai announced that he would seek to reverse his predecessor’s efforts, and instead pursue “a light-touch regulatory framework” towards internet service providers.
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It’s time for Congress to fire the FCC chairman
FCC chairman Ajit Pai is genuinely one of the nicest people in Washington. He’s smart, personable, and the kind of guy you’d want to have a beer with. But nice guys don’t always make good policy (I’ve been bipartisan on this), and Pai’s record means real danger for American consumers and the internet itself. If you believe communications networks should be fast, fair, open, and affordable, you need ask your senator to vote against Pai’s reconfirmation. Now.
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