Tag: net neutrality

A Public Service Internet for Europe?

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7 December 2018 — Media Reform Coalition

By Professor Angela Phillips (Goldsmiths, University of London)

The French Government announced in October that the National Assembly and Army Ministry would no longer be relying on American digital companies for Internet search.  They are in future going to be using the French and German developed Quant search system which doesn’t track its users’ personal data and doesn’t therefore expose users to the misuse of personal data for advertising or propaganda purposes.

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Is It the Demise of Online Digital Democracy? Selected Articles

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15 December 2017 — Global Research

Net Neutrality Killed as FCC ‘Hands Keys to Internet to Handful of Multi-Billion Dollar Corporations’

By Julia Conley, December 15, 2017

The nonpartisan First Amendment advocacy group Free Press vowed to take the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to court Thursday after the Republican-controlled panel moved to gut net neutrality protections that prohibit internet service providers (ISPs) from charging for and discriminating against content, in a 3-2 vote along party lines.

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Digital Dystopia: FCC Ends Net Neutrality By Baynard Woods

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14 December 2017 — TRNN

Ajit Pai’s FCC voted Thursday to end net neutrality regulations despite fierce opposition

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) voted Thursday to overturn the so-called net neutrality rules that prevent internet service providers from favoring certain sites with higher speeds, while jamming up others.

Net neutrality was the result of activist campaigns in 2015. Craig Aaron, president of the advocacy group Free Press, calls net neutrality the “First Amendment of the internet,” which ensure that “when you go online, you can go wherever you want; do whatever you want; download whatever you want; and it’s not up to Comcast, Verizon or AT&T to decide which websites are going to work and which aren’t.”

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Net Neutrality Repeal Is Only Part of Trump’s Surrender to Corporate Media By Reed Richardson

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14 December 2017 — FAIR

The FCC is under attack—and so too is the First Amendment. As the primary regulator of how media and information gets to our nation’s citizens, the Federal Communications Commission has a critical role to play in protecting the open Internet, free speech, and free press in our democracy. Though the agency has always enjoyed a cozy relationship with the industries it regulates, ever since the Trump administration arrived in Washington, the FCC’s mission to preserve the public commons has been threatened, assaulted and torn asunder. And like a bad horror movie cliché, these calls to eviscerate the FCC have been coming from inside the agency.

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The FCC’s Order Is Out, We’ve Read It, and Here’s What You Need to Know: It Will End Net Neutrality and Break the Internet

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22 November 2017 — FreePress

Matt Wood and Gaurav Laroia

On Wednesday, Federal Communications Commission Chairman Ajit Pai released his draft order to completely eradicate Net Neutrality.

You can read the full text here. The short version is that Pai’s order takes the Net Neutrality rules off the books and abandons the court-approved Title II legal framework that served as the basis for the successful 2015 Open Internet Order.

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The FCC's Order Is Out, We've Read It, and Here's What You Need to Know: It Will End Net Neutrality and Break the Internet

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22 November 2017 — FreePress

Matt Wood and Gaurav Laroia

On Wednesday, Federal Communications Commission Chairman Ajit Pai released his draft order to completely eradicate Net Neutrality.

You can read the full text here. The short version is that Pai’s order takes the Net Neutrality rules off the books and abandons the court-approved Title II legal framework that served as the basis for the successful 2015 Open Internet Order.

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Save Net Neutrality!

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29 November 2017 — OpenMedia

As I’m sure you’ve seen, it’s been all hands on deck to save Net Neutrality in the U.S. We need you to add your name now to our worldwide message to Republican Congressional leaders to stop the FCC from destroying the free and open Internet as we know it.

This won’t just impact Americans, it will disrupt the Internet for all of us who depend on it.

Act now

We only have until December 14th to save Net Neutrality. If you haven’t yet, please add your name.

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Net neutrality and the drive to censor the internet

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25 November 2017 — WSWS

Wednesday’s move by the Trump administration to end net neutrality marks a milestone in the offensive by the US government and major corporations to put an end to the free and open internet, paving the way for widespread government censorship of oppositional news and analysis.

Under the current law, upheld by numerous court decisions and reaffirmed by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) in 2015, companies that provide internet access to users, known as internet service providers (ISPs), cannot block or impede their users’ access to any website or service.

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Don’t ask for your privacy. Take it back

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29 May 2014 — Reset the Net

“On June 5, I will take strong steps to protect my freedom from government mass surveillance. I expect the services I use to do the same.”

A few weeks ago we organized a game-changing encampment at the FCC that helped put REAL net neutrality back on the table, even as corporate lobbyists are pulling out all the stops to kill it. Continue reading →

FCC net neutrality rules to hinder Internet freedom — RT

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22 December, 2010 — RT

The Federal Communications Commission voted to approve the first ever US Internet access regulation, aimed at insuring access to legal web content is not impeded for home Internet access.

The so-called net neutrality regulation was introduced by FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski over a year ago and was supported by the Democratic members of the voting body. The Republican members of the FCC voted against the new rule.

Intense debate among Internet freedom advocates, lobbyists and regulatory analysts has erupted over whether the regulation is needed or even legal. Legal and congressional challenges are expected. In addition, the new rule does not apply to personal Internet use on mobile phones.

Jason Rosenbaum, the senior online campaign director at the Progressive Change Campaign Committee explained there are simply too many loop-holes in the new rules, and that they in fact would cater to big business.

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Net Neutrality Rules Are Imminent From the F.C.C. – NYTimes.com

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21 December, 2010 — NYTimes.com

The Federal Communications Commission appears poised to pass a controversial set of rules that broadly create two classes of Internet access, one for fixed-line providers and the other for the wireless Net.

The chairman of the F.C.C., Julius Genachowski, introduced his net neutrality proposal at the beginning of the month.

The proposed rules of the online road would prevent fixed-line broadband providers like Comcast and Qwest from blocking access to sites and applications. The rules, however, would allow wireless companies more latitude in putting limits on access to services and applications.

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