On early Monday morning, the U.S. Appeals Court decided not to rehear a challenge to its decision to uphold the net neutrality rules, known as Title II, from former President Barack Obama.
Its decision comes right after FCC Chairman Ajit Pai made it known he will continue with his plan to roll...
FCC Chairman Ajit Pai took his war on net neutrality to Europe for the Mobil World Congress in Barcelona, Spain. He told his counterparts that the rules implemented under former President Barack Obama closed off progress as the world becomes more dependent on technology:
“We are c...
Controlling the internet is a goal of the progressive left, including the White House, and we’ve covered one of their angles to that end, net neutrality, here at LI. On Friday, the House passed a bill that would prohibit the FCC from “setting or setting or reviewing the rates that companies...
The history of the Lifeline (aka Obamaphone) program is often cited by progressives as a Republican scheme, and in some ways, it is. As Daniel Greenfield explains:
At the same time it should be recognized that the roots of this monstrosity began under Bush when the [Universal Service Fund] USF was used...
If activists want to stop the rollout of the new net neutrality rules, they’re going to have to use the courts to do it.
Since the FCC first announced that it had approved a new set of regulations governing internet providers,
Yesterday, the first two lawsuits dealing with the new “Net Neutrality” rules were filed in federal court. The United States Telecom Association, a trade org representing the nation’s largest telecom companies, and Alamo Broadband, a small Texas-based broadband company, are both suing over...
Two weeks ago, the FCC voted along party lines to change the internet as we know it. They did it in the name of “fairness,” and “equality,” and “adapting to a rapidly changing internet landscape.” A lot...
This week, the FCC voted 3-2 in favor of implementing net neutrality policies. These rules will prevent internet service providers like Verizon or Comcast from blocking or throttling traffic, ban giving priority to providers who are willing to pay for faster service, and reclassify broadband as a telecommunications service. This means...
Is there anyone who is surprised that the FCC has voted in favor of net neutrality, and that the vote followed party lines? I doubt it. The general trend has been for greater and greater control by agencies in matters that may seem innocuous, technical, and/or unimportant at the time but...
FCC Commissioner Ajit Pai has a net neutrality problem—and he’s not staying silent about it.
Commissioner Pai is leading the charge against Democratic Chairman Tom Wheeler’s plans to regulate the way we sell and receive internet access. The problem isn’t just with the contents of the plan—which are sweeping and expand...
Say hello to the FCC’s newly-dubbed “New Rules for Protecting the Open Internet”.
From The Hill:
Tom Wheeler, head of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), announced Wednesday that he will be circulating to his colleagues the “strongest open Internet protections ever proposed by the FCC,” made up of “enforceable, bright-line rules.”
The proposal will...
The next big Congressional standoff may not be over immigration or health care, but how the FCC should be allowed to regulate the internet and internet providers.
Back in December, reports surfaced that lawmakers were meeting with industry officials to draft legislation that would
Get ready for the next big net neutrality fight, because it’s coming sooner than you think.
The FCC has released statements indicating that it’s ready to decide the future of the internet, and will do so at its February 26th monthly meeting. The Washington Post had it first:
President Obama’s top telecom regulator,...
The tech policy community has momentarily banded together to nail the Federal Communications Commission to the wall over what seems to be a big data meltdown regarding hundreds of thousands of public comments the agency received regarding its Net Neutrality deliberations.
Gizmodo has a nice rundown of what we know so far:
New...
Net Neutrality has existed for a long time in the nerd-niche of the policy world, but now that Obama has asked the FCC to impose strict new regulations on internet service providers, the issue has jumped out of the shadows and into the forefront of public debate.
“Net Neutrality” provisions—new regulations...
Conservative advocacy organizations are using their resources to put muscle behind the growing anti-internet regulation movement.
Those on the other side of the issue, who advocate for “Net Neutrality,” want to use Title II of the Communications Act as a way of reclassifying broadband internet providers as “utilities.” If this reclassification...
