-
+29 +1
The FCC votes to overturn net neutrality
The Federal Communications Commission has officially begun undoing net neutrality rules the agency passed two years ago. The FCC voted 2-1, along political party lines Thursday, to begin a rule-making process to replace the Open Internet order, or net neutrality rules, adopted in 2015 by the agency, then headed by Chairman Tom Wheeler, a Democrat. Those original rules included provisions preventing Internet service providers (ISPs) from blocking or throttling legal content users sought to access, as well as preventing ISPs from accepting payment to prioritize some data.
-
+1 +1
Theresa May promises a British version of Iran's Halal Internet
Theresa May promises a British version of Iran's Halal Internet
-
+2 +1
18 Cable Companies Promise To Support Net Neutrality; None Will Guarantee You In Writing
Every time the net neutrality fight comes back around, we hear the same tired promise from the cable industry: We love net neutrality, we will promise you net neutrality, just don’t pass or enforce any laws that actually require us to do it. As we embark on fighting this fight for the second time in just the last three years, industry is back at it, making the same promise. They’re saying it in press statements, on their websites, through their executives, and in utterly laughable videos: We guarantee you will always have an open internet. But do they actually mean it?
-
+20 +1
Theresa May to create new internet that would be controlled and regulated by government
Theresa May is planning to introduce huge regulations on the way the internet works, allowing the government to decide what is said online.
-
+19 +1
Google and Facebook lobbyists try to stop new online privacy protections
Lobbyists for Google, Facebook, and other websites are trying to stop the implementation of a proposed law that would strengthen consumer privacy protections online. Rep. Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) last week proposed a bill that would require broadband providers and websites to obtain users' opt-in consent before they use Web browsing history and application usage history for advertising and other purposes or before they share that information with other entities.
-
+14 +1
2.6 million comments in, the FCC has changed almost nothing about its net neutrality proposal
This is the same process that happened with the commission’s proposal to kill the 2015 net neutrality rules. An initial draft was published last month, and yesterday we got to see the revised draft that ended up being voted on. In between, there were plenty of comments made for the FCC to look at: 2.6 million as of today. (Though tens of thousands appear to be fake.)
-
+34 +1
Dead People Are Posting Anti-Net Neutrality Comments to the FCC Website
“Friends of recently-deceased individuals…confirmed their friends could not have posted the comments posthumously.” By Daniel Oberhaus.
-
+26 +1
Consumers Demand FCC Investigate Bogus Net Neutrality Comments
News: Consumer groups are calling on the FCC to stop ignoring and properly investigate the hundreds of thousands of fake comments being fraudulently submitted to the FCC's net neutrality proceeding.
-
+21 +1
Australia's net neutrality lesson for the US
A US court ruling meaning broadband internet service providers will no longer have to follow principles of network neutrality has sparked predictions the internet will end as we know it. Some predict it will be controlled by a few rich corporations who will charge content providers on a pay-to-play model. Others have predicted increased government control or suggested that people in developing nations will be forced into servitude to Facebook.
-
+31 +1
Cable Industry Lobbyists Write Republican Talking Points on Net Neutrality
The metadata of a document distributed to House Republicans shows it was created by a lobbyist for cable companies. By Lee Fang, Nick Surgey. (May 23, 2017)
-
+29 +1
Why politicians don't, and can't, understand the Internet
Politicians do not understand the Internet. It is not so much that the politicians in power today in their 60s weren’t born with it, even if that’s also true. It’s more that politicians as a profession are institutionally incapable of understanding it, just because it functions without – even despite – political interference.
-
+11 +1
Netflix Just Gave Its Users Some Really Disappointing News
At Recode’s Code Conference on Wednesday, Netflix’s CEO Reed Hastings seemed to put the final nail in the coffin of his company’s support for net neutrality, which is threatened by the Republican-dominated Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC) deregulation proposal. Netflix’s withdrawal from the fight for a free internet — of which it used to be a stalwart participant — is disappointing but not surprising, and it’s a reminder of why we need net neutrality: to protect the powerless, not the powerful.
-
+23 +1
Amazon, Reddit, the ACLU, and more set net neutrality ‘day of action’
Major tech companies and nonprofit groups have signed on to a “day of action” next month to protest the FCC’s planned rollback of net neutrality rules. Organized by nonprofit group Fight for the Future, the protest will include Amazon, Etsy, Reddit, Mozilla, the ACLU, and several others, who have all agreed to show their support for net neutrality on July 12th. In 2014, a similar list of companies agreed to post banners on their websites showing support for regulation.
-
+23 +1
The FCC wants to destroy net neutrality and give giant cable companies control over the Internet
On July 12th: we’ll stop them. Join the Internet-Wide Day of Action to save net neutrality! The FCC wants to destroy net neutrality and give big cable companies control over what we see and do online. If they get their way, they’ll allow widespread throttling, blocking, censorship, and extra fees. On July 12th, the Internet will come together to stop them.
-
+1 +1
Amazon, Reddit join internet 'day of action' for net neutrality
A coalition of activists and internet companies is mobilizing net neutrality supporters for an online demonstration next month against the Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC) plan to repeal the landmark rules. The groups announced on Tuesday that they will be holding an “internet-wide day of action” on July 12 and will help supporters flood the FCC and Congress with pro-net neutrality messages.
-
+26 +1
The Internet needs paid fast lanes, anti-net neutrality senator says
Net neutrality is just a "slogan."
-
+17 +1
How Media Monopolies Are Undermining Democracy and Threatening Net Neutrality
Robert Scheer interviews former FCC associate general counsel Mark Lloyd about why a fair, open media is crucial to maintaining democracy.
-
+37 +1
Net Neutrality Ends Here
-
+25 +1
An Attack on Net Neutrality Is an Attack on Free Speech
Several US senators spoke out this week on the importance of net neutrality to innovation and free speech. They are right. The Internet has become our public square, our newspaper, our megaphone. The Federal Communications Commission is trying to turn it in something more akin to commercial cable TV, and we all have to work together to stop it.
-
+28 +1
Congressman Asks FBI to Look into Fake Net Neutrality Comments
A Democratic Congressman from New Jersey has asked the Department of Justice and the FBI to look into whether fake comments submitted as part of the FCC’s net neutrality proceeding violated federal law. In a letter sent to Attorney General Jeff Sessions and Acting FBI Director Andrew McCabe this week, Rep. Frank Pallone urged the pair to investigate reports that stolen identities were used to submit comments to the Commission.
Submit a link
Start a discussion