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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…
The Internet uproar about network neutrality tends to come in waves. Right now we’re riding the crest of one.
In the two weeks since Federal Communications Com…
"Here’s how Barbara van Schewick of Stanford Law School’s Center for Internet and Society puts it: “Access fees would significantly increase the costs of o…
Cross-posted from Slate.
A few years ago, Internet users, democracy activists, and entrepreneurs got wind of a proposed law, SOPA, that would have changed the…
"In an in-depth blog post written in the wake of Wheeler’s initial comments, Stanford Law School professor Barbara van Schewick argued that critics of the…
"“We know that users will leave a service if it is slow to load, or if it is unreliable,” said attorney Marvin Ammori, a fellow with the New America Founda…
Cross-posted from Netarchitecture.org
Wednesday's press reports of the new network neutrality rules proposed by FCC Chairman Wheeler have been met with ang…
"To understand why, the best article to read is the one by Marvin Ammori, who has been fighting this fight for years. He argues that, unlike the CNET artic…
"A regulation allowing discrimination could also empower ISPs to charge companies a fee to exclude their content from consumers' bandwidth caps, writes…
In 2008 and 2012, President Obama campaigned on the incredibly popular idea of network neutrality—a law that would forbid phone and cable companies from changin…
"While Wu's plan gives the FCC the wiggle room to regulate downstream traffic while treating upstream traffic differently, other net neutrality advocat…
While AT&T, Comcast, and Verizon have argued -- with incredible message discipline -- that network neutrality is "a solution in search of a problem,&qu…