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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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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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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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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 Web began dying in 2014
Here's how. By André Staltz.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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The net neutrality rollback is expected to begin this week
The Trump administration's Federal Communications Commission is expected to announce its plans to begin dismantling of the Obama-era net neutrality rules this week, with an official rollback anticipated following a mid-December meeting, The Wall Street Journal reports. FCC Chairman Ajit Pai vowed last winter that he would take "a weed whacker" to the regulations. Pai argues that the rules — which prevent internet service providers like Comcast and AT&T from tinkering with the speed of certain websites and applications...
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Donald Trump’s FCC is a Clear and Present Danger to Democracy
It has rewritten media-ownership rules to benefit giant corporations, including the pro-Trump Sinclair Broadcasting.
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The FCC is about to kill net neutrality. It's time to protest.
Enough is enough. It's time for the Internet to fight back. The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is expected to vote on its plan to kill net neutrality on December 14. People from across the political spectrum are outraged, so we’re planning to protest at Verizon retail stores across the country on December 7, one week before the vote and at the peak of the busy Holiday shopping season. We'll demand that our members of Congress take action to stop Verizon's puppet FCC from killing net neutrality.
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FCC will also order states to scrap plans for their own net neutrality laws
Double win for ISPs: No more net neutrality, and state laws will be preempted. By Jon Brodkin.
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Tell Congress: Quit Trying to Sabotage Net Neutrality
Net neutrality is under multiple threats in Congress. Whether it’s slashing the FCC's budget, attempting to prohibit the agency from enforcing its Open Internet Order, or stalling net neutrality protections with redundant and unnecessary “studies,” lawmakers are using every trick they can to undermine the FCC’s work to keep the Internet free and open.
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