Open Internet Roundtable - Policy Approaches
Prof. Barbara van Schewick participated in the FCC's Open Internet Roundtable on September 16, 2014. The internet roundtable series provides an opportunity…
Architecture and Public Policy
More Than 3 Million Told the FCC What They Think About Net Neutrality. Why Hasn't Obama?
The FCC has received more than 3 million comments on Commissioner Tom Wheeler’s controversial plan to rethink net neutrality. If the last couple of million comm…
Only Title II will ensure fairness among ISPs
Last Wednesday, more than 300,000 people contacted the White House and their representatives in Congress on a day of action calling for a free and open Internet…
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Momentum is building for a net neutrality compromise
"Speaking at an FCC roundtable Tuesday, Stanford University net neutrality scholar Barbara van Schewick said that, under certain conditions, letting Intern…
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Inside Tumblr and the battle for net neutrality
"Marvin Ammori, a lawyer and activist who serves on the Board of Directors for several nonprofits, doesn’t think the net neutrality fight is a sure win. Bu…
Is the Internet about to get sloooooow?
On Wednesday, millions of Americans visiting their favorite websites will encounter the same dreaded image: the spinning wheel of death. This is the symbol of t…
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Comcast Wi-Fi serving self-promotional ads via JavaScript injection
""I think it shows why the FCC should have the authority under Title II to address this question," Marvin Ammori, an attorney and network neutral…
Nixing Net Neutrality Would Produce More Healthcare.govs
Cross-posted from Slate. Last week, the White House hired a head of the U.S. Digital Services to get the whole government to adopt technology processes like th…
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Social networks crack down on terror posts
"Marvin Ammori, a 1st Amendment scholar and a fellow at the New America Foundation, said social media networks have to grapple with being the modern town s…
The Case for Net Neutrality
For all the withering criticism leveled at the White House for its botched rollout of HealthCare.gov, that debacle is not the biggest technology-related failure…
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USA v. Microsoft: what the decision does and doesn't mean
Somehow we went from mild interest in December when Microsoft challenged a search warrant over user data stored in Ireland to some kind of frenzy today when Chi…
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Jurisdiction over user data - what is the ideal solution to a very real world problem?
Over the past ten days, civil society has been having kittens over the UK Data Retention and Investigatory Powers Bill, partly because of its extraterritorial e…