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Accepting $1.42 billion in federal broadband funding would require California to give up enforcing its net neutrality, affordability, and public-safety laws aga…
We asked AT&T if it still believes that it would be impossible to comply with the zero-rating rule only in California. We also asked AT&T if it is compl…
"However, multiple sources told The Huffington Post that the proposal of Clyburn's described in The Hill could actually make net neutrality rules stron…
This Thursday, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is poised to reclassify ISPs like Verizon and Comcast that connect us to the Internet as common carri…
This report was filed with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) along with an ex parte letter on February 19, 2015
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Goals of Network Neutrality Rules
The proposal for network neutrality rules is guided by the following principles:
First, the FCC should adopt strong network…
"Van Schewick is all for strong new rules, but prefers bright line rules against specific practices. She also suggests that the FCC could get at conduct th…
Executive Summary
Bright-line Rules. To avoid the considerable social costs associated with evaluating behavior case-by-case, behavior that is clearly harmful…
"“They moved over to us aggressively,” said Marvin Ammori, a scholar at the Stanford Law School Center for Internet & Society who was speaking on a Lin…
Tom Wheeler, chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, recently announced support for strong net neutrality rules grounded in the FCC’s strongest legal…
"It seemed impossible a year ago because if you made a power map, you’d have seen a modest, courageous coalition of small web companies, political activist…
""For the millennial generation, taking away an open Internet is like, for an older generation, taking away Social Security or Medicare—or for some pe…
"The decision came under quick fire from Web activists and, soon after, by 150 Internet companies including giants like Google and Netflix, who sent a lett…