Net Neutrality Vote
FCC’s Ajit Pai: ‘When it comes to an open Internet, Twitter is part of the problem’
FCC Chairman and net neutrality eliminator-in-chief Ajit Pai has thrown Twitter and other online services under the bus in order to show that it’s not just broadband providers that can…
FCC releases final draft of ‘Restoring Internet Freedom,’ which would not do that
The FCC yesterday announced a December 14 vote on “Restoring Internet Freedom,” an order that, far from restoring freedom to the internet, would allow it to be restricted in new…
New York attorney general slams the FCC for ignoring net neutrality comments investigation
If the FCC’s refusal to acknowledge the vast public outcry against its plan to gut net neutrality isn’t enough of an outrage, its total disinterest in investigating how that same comment…
The FCC’s craven net neutrality vote announcement makes no mention of the 22 million comments filed
For someone who claims to be working for the American people, Ajit Pai sure doesn’t seem to care what they have to say. In his announcement today that the FCC…
FCC will vote whether to delete net neutrality on December 14
FCC Chairman Ajit Pai today made good on his long-standing pledge to tackle regulations established in the last administration designed to protect the distribution of internet content. Pai distributed to…
FCC adds 2 weeks to comment period for the proposal to eliminate net neutrality rules
The comment period for the FCC’s proposal to roll back the net neutrality rules established in 2015 was originally August 16 — next Wednesday. But after advocacy organizations asked the…
10 members of Congress rake FCC over the coals in official net neutrality comment
How and to what extent the FCC should regulate the internet has been a hot question for years, and the present administration is proposing to eliminate the 2015 Order that…
FCC fills vacant seats as Jessica Rosenworcel and Brendan Carr are confirmed by Senate
You might not think it from the amount of controversy the agency has generated recently, but the FCC has been operating on a skeleton crew of three commissioners since the…
FCC says its cybersecurity measures to prevent DDoS attacks must remain secret
The FCC has provided a few — very few — details of the steps it has taken to prevent attacks like the one that briefly took down its comment system…
Senators ask FBI to look into FCC’s cyberattack claims
The FCC claimed earlier this month that the comment system by which people can weigh in on the proposal to kill net neutrality had been on the receiving end of…
Commission Impossible: How and why the FCC created net neutrality
The conflict over net neutrality we see playing out today is just the latest part of a complex dance of dispute that has been going on for quite a long…
The FCC’s case against net neutrality rests on a deliberate misrepresentation of how the internet works
The FCC has just published the notice of proposed rulemaking that would roll back the 2015 Open Internet Order establishing net neutrality. Their first and primary justification for doing this…
These are the arguments against net neutrality and why they’re wrong
The next few months will be full of bitter dissent regarding the FCC’s net neutrality rules, how they should be enforced, and indeed whether they should exist at all. Several…
The FCC officially proposes to end net neutrality rules (but it’s not over yet)
Today the FCC voted to officially propose an order that would eliminate net neutrality rules as we know them. To be clear, the rules are not being adopted today —…
The FCC’s comment system targeted by DDoS attacks during filing period for net neutrality
The FCC suffered multiple distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks Sunday night and Monday morning, the agency said in a statement today. The attacks appear to be aimed at shutting down the…
Judge argues net neutrality violates the free speech rights of … internet providers
In perhaps the most absurd attack on net neutrality yet attempted, a federal judge argues that the rules established in 2015 by the FCC violate the first amendment rights of……
How to comment on the FCC’s proposal to revoke net neutrality
The FCC has made its initial proposal as to how it intends to do away with net neutrality — and despite what leadership there has said, that’s definitely how the…
The FCC’s anti-net neutrality proposal is a giant question mark
Yesterday the FCC’s chairman, Ajit Pai, put existing net neutrality rules on notice, saying that the agency would continue to protect consumers — but with a lighter touch. Just how…
FCC details plan to roll back net neutrality rules
FCC Chairman Ajit Pai, newly appointed by President Trump, announced his intention to rescind the net neutrality rules created by the agency’s 2015 Open Internet Order. He called the 2015…
Everything you need to know about Congress’ decision to expose your data to internet providers
A joint resolution has just been passed by both houses of Congress and all but signed by the president, reversing the Broadband Privacy Rule, a piece of regulation from the…
Senate debates permanent rollback of FCC’s broadband privacy rules (Update: Passed)
Republican Senators led by Arizona’s Jeff Flake proposed a resolution earlier this month that would roll back privacy rules adopted by the FCC last year that prevented ISPs from collecting…
As new FCC Commissioner Aji Pai telegraphed last week, the commission voted today to stay a set of privacy rules for broadband providers, adopted last year, which would have come…
FCC Chairman pledges to roll back net neutrality regulations during European address
As Ajit Pai took the stage for a speech at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona this morning, CNBC anchor Karen Tso noted that the newly appointed FCC Chairman’s top priority…
FCC weakens net neutrality rule in a prelude to larger rollbacks
The FCC ordered today to reduce the reach of a net neutrality rule that requires broadband providers to share data on their services. Originally, providers with less than 100,000 subscribers…
FCC performs midnight revocations of previous leadership’s ‘midnight regulations’
The FCC giveth, and the FCC taketh away… from itself. Chairman Ajit Pai has ordered the revocation of several papers and findings issued by the commission before the turnover to…
Trump’s FCC just dropped all investigations into zero-rating practices
There’s a new FCC in town and it isn’t wasting any time. Mobile carriers can rest easy today knowing that the Federal Communications Commission is no longer pursuing an investigation…
Trump’s FCC Chairman pick Ajit Pai heralds a weaker, meeker Commission
FCC Commissioner Ajit Pai was elevated today to Chairman by the Trump administration, setting the stage for a more restrained and permissive FCC than under Tom Wheeler, who resigned last…
FCC voices ‘serious concerns’ over AT&T’s zero-rating scheme
The FCC may be on the verge of being rebuilt under a very different administration, but reports put together under the current one are still being issued — and just…
Trump transition team appointments indicate a bid to dismantle net neutrality
President-elect Trump has made it clear that he is more than a little hostile towards the FCC’s implementation of net neutrality, both in his own words and, today, the appointment…
The Net Neutrality Quiet Period
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is currently in its weeklong ‘sunshine’ period before its February 26 meeting that will see the agency vote on new net neutrality regulations. The sunshine…