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FCC chairman Ajit Pai out, net neutrality back in
Opinion: As expected, Trump appointee Ajit Pai, who destroyed net neutrality, is leaving office. He leaves behind a legacy of higher internet prices and broken net neutrality. Things can only get better for the internet from here.
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Bye Bye, Ajit Pai: FCC Boss Will Soon Lose Top Spot
You can expect most of his more controversial decisions, like the repeal of net neutrality, to be reversed.
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Frontier’s Bankruptcy Shows Why ISPs Shouldn’t Be in Charge of the Internet
Let’s state the obvious: Internet in the U.S. sucks. Unless you already have fiber, you’re probably stuck with cable, DSL, or no internet at all because no ISP wants to expand into your area. If you live in a rural area and are lucky to get some form of broadband, you’re probably paying an exorbitant amount for slower than molasses speeds. And most people, about 83.3 million according to a recent report from the Institute for Local Self-Reliance (ILSR), can only access broadband through a single provider.
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Here’s Trump’s Plan To Regulate Social Media
President Trump wants to make the FCC rewrite the 1996 law that made social media possible to make it difficult-to-impossible for social media to be mean to the president.
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Biden FCC Would Restore Net Neutrality Rules
Fund more municipal broadband
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Covid-19 makes it clearer than ever: access to the internet should be a universal right -- Tim Berners-Lee
The internet eased lockdown life for millions. But millions more still can’t get online, and that’s fundamentally unfair, says web inventor Tim Berners-Lee
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Making Internet service a utility—what’s the worst that could happen?
A cable lobby lawyer reveals the industry’s darkest fears.
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FCC ordered to provide IP addresses tied to fake net neutrality comments
The FCC will have to hand over IP addresses connected to fake net neutrality comments despite claims of privacy violations.
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ISPs Need to Just Kill Data Caps Already
Internet usage has peaked as more folks stay at home to help curb the spread of the novel coronavirus—and in the UK, all major telecom companies this weekend struck a deal with the government to lift all data caps on fixed broadband services. That’s in addition to the companies introducing generous mobile and landline packages, on top of offering alternative forms of communication for vulnerable customers who may be self-isolating if repairs can’t be carried out.
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Clarence Thomas regrets ruling that Ajit Pai used to kill net neutrality
Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas wants a do-over on his 2005 decision in a case that had a major impact on the power of federal agencies and regulation of the broadband industry. In National Cable & Telecommunications Association v. Brand X Internet Services, better known as Brand X, Thomas wrote the 6-3 majority opinion that upheld a Federal Communications Commission decision to classify cable broadband as an information service.
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FCC forced to ask for public feedback on net neutrality repeal
A senior FCC Commissioner urges the public to "make some noise."
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Cut Undersea Cable Plunges Yemen Into Days-Long Internet Outage
The fragility of global internet structure has left the entire Red Sea region struggling to connect.
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Mozilla and others file appeal to save net neutrality
The internet company is asking the full DC Circuit Court of Appeals to rehear the case upholding the FCC's repeal of Obama-era rules protecting an open internet.
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Tim Berners-Lee launches Google and Facebook-backed plan to fix the web
Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the world wide web, has officially launched the Contract for the Web, a set of principles designed to “fix” the internet and prevent us from sliding into a “digital dystopia,” The Guardian reports. The contract lists nine core principles for governments, companies, and individuals to adhere to, including responsibilities to provide affordable, reliable internet access and to respect civil discourse and human dignity.
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Political Operatives Are Faking Voter Outrage With Millions Of Made-Up Comments To Benefit The Rich And Powerful
A fierce battle over the regulation of the internet was riddled with millions of fake comments in the most prolific known instance of political impersonation in US history.
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Net neutrality is alive and well after this week’s crushing court defeat
The DC court giveth what it taketh away.
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Why Ajit Pai’s “unhinged” net neutrality repeal was upheld by judges
Judges reluctantly accepted claim that broadband isn't "telecommunications."
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Study Proves The FCC's Core Justification for Killing Net Neutrality Was False
A new study has found the FCC’s primary justification for repealing net neutrality was indisputably false. For years, big ISPs and Trump FCC boss Ajit Pai have told anyone who’d listen that the FCC’s net neutrality rules, passed in 2015 and repealed last year in a flurry of controversy and alleged fraud, dramatically stifled broadband investment across the United States. Repeal the rules, Pai declared, and US broadband investment would explode.
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Exclusive: Bernie Sanders pledges to nominate FCC commissioners who will reinstate net neutrality
If elected president, Sen. Bernie Sanders will appoint commissioners to the FCC that will reinstate net neutrality rules, his campaign told the Daily Dot.
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Crowdfunding campaign launched to stop EU’s new copyright regulations
Over five million people have already signed up in protest at the EU’s action.
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