Net neutrality

Comcast Prepares to Screw Over Millions With Data Caps in 2021

Next year, Comcast will start charging Xfinity customers in northeastern US states overage fees for exceeding their monthly data cap. As The Verge reports, customers not on an unlimited plan who exceed 1.2 TB of data in a month will have to pay $10 for every 50 GB of data they go over, topping out…

Internet Joanna Nelius Nov 23

Leaked DNC Platform Is Troublingly Vague on Net Neutrality

Buried deep within a leaked 79-page draft of the Democratic National Committee’s 2020 platform are promises to “recommit” to net neutrality and bridge the digital divide once and for all. Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden and Senator Bernie Sanders had already outlined similar plans in a joint task force document that was recently released, but…

Tech News Joanna Nelius Jul 22

Biden’s Grand Plan for the Internet: Restore Net Neutrality, Create Municipal Broadband

If elected president, Joe Biden has big plans. In addition tackling climate change, reforming the criminal justice system, and expanding health care coverage, Biden aims to restore net neutrality rules and get rid of laws that block municipal broadband, or internet access that’s provided fully or partially by local governments. He outlined the plan in…

Tech News Joanna Nelius Jul 13

Cox Might Slow Down a Whole Neighborhood’s Internet If One Person Is Using Too Much Data

If there is anything as quite as infuriating as internet data caps, having your internet speed throttled is up there—especially if you pay extra to have ultra-fast, uncapped internet. According to Ars Technica, Cox Communications not only wants certain customers to stop using so much data, it’s also reportedly punishing entire neighborhoods to get those…

Tech News Joanna Nelius Jun 8

Deadly Fungus, Fat Bear Week, PS5 Leaks, and Hot Dog Salad: Best Gizmodo Stories of the Week

No news this week could possibly compare to the “hot dog salad” abomination created by a certain Gizmodo colleague, which has taken our forbidden sandwich out back, choked it to death, and absorbed it into its goopy morass. But reader, we tried. This week, the Gizmodo team covered everything from the Federal Communications Commission’s big…

Tech News Tom McKay Oct 6

FCC Improperly Blocked States From Passing Net Neutrality Laws, Appeals Court Rules

A federal appeals court on Tuesday largely upheld the Federal Communications Commission’s decision to roll back nationwide net-neutrality protections in a blow to supporters of the Obama-era policy. But not everything in the ruling went in the FCC’s favor. Consumer advocacy groups, including Mozilla, Free Press, Public Knowledge, and the National Hispanic Media Coalition, as…

Tech Policy Dell Cameron Oct 1

Ajit Pai Is Working Hard to Make Broadband Users Dumb Again

The death of federal net neutrality protections in the United States didn’t only give ISPs license to penalize customers who don’t agree to buy their services, it also pointlessly mystifies the process by which consumers acquire the most basic details about their home internet’s price, speed, and capacity. Case in point: In April 2016, the…

Tech Policy Dell Cameron Jun 28

Blood Feasts, Cashless Stores, and Quantum Computing: Best Gizmodo Stories of the Week

Excellent news here at Gizmodo, where I presume what’s left of our blogger-chewed Forbidden Sandwich is still festering in the back of a fridge. We have discovered yet more ingredients to add to the mix, including head cheese from an ancient species of Pleistocene wolf found preserved in Siberia, cannabis residue scraped from a brazier…

Tech News Tom McKay Jun 16

Mitch McConnell Called Out for Blocking Vote on Net Neutrality Rules Republicans Actually Like

The consumer protections widely known as “net neutrality” are hugely popular among Republicans throughout the U.S., if only because cable and internet providers are American’s choice example of rapacious corporate gluttony. In Washington, however, things are radically different. Insofar as net neutrality is concerned, the relationship between GOP lawmakers and legendarily despised big cable companies—it’s…

Tech Policy Dell Cameron Jun 11

Man Who Threatened FCC Chairman’s Kids Sentenced to 20 Months

A California man who emailed FCC Chairman Ajit Pai and threatened to murder his children in 2017 has been sentenced to 20 months in prison. Markara Man, 33, was arrested last year at his Norwalk, California residence where FBI agents recovered digital evidence he’d threatened to kill the chairman’s kids. Prosecutors said the man was…

Tech News Dell Cameron May 17

The Biggest Lies We Heard About Net Neutrality This Week

“Consumer protection” isn’t a phrase you’ll find on the resume of a person who devises dishonest, meaningless soundbites like, “Net neutrality is about government takeover of the internet.” But most Washington lawmakers don’t really care what a soundbite means or whether it’s they’re true. It just needs to be catchy, maybe inspire a little fear…

Tech Policy Dell Cameron Apr 12

Senator Kamala Harris Invokes Avengers: Infinity War to Defend Net Neutrality

Democratic Senator and Presidential hopeful Kamala Harris is a fan of superhero films, and has been known to use them to illustrate ideas related to her various political platforms. Following Congressman Michael Doyle Jr.’s (D, Pa.) Save the Internet Act making it through the House in a 232-190 vote, Harris took to Twitter with an…

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House Democrats Pass Bill to Restore Net Neutrality

Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives made good on a campaign promise on Wednesday by passing legislation that would effectively reinstate, in its entirety, the 2015 Open Internet Order—rules that, for a brief time, ensured that net neutrality was the law of the land. The bill passed in a 232-190 vote, with only one…

Tech Policy Dell Cameron Apr 10

Colorado Governor Reportedly Set to Sign Net Neutrality Bill Into Law

A bill aimed at protecting net neutrality in Colorado is on its way to being signed into law. Colorado Governor Jared Polis is expected to sign Senate Bill 78, the Colorado Sun reported Friday, after it passed in the Colorado House this week. The bill was introduced earlier this year by state Democrats and would…

Tech News Catie Keck Apr 5

The Head of the FTC Just Debunked the FCC’s Favorite Excuse for Killing Net Neutrality

Two weeks before voting to rollback the net neutrality rules, FCC Commissioner Brendan Carr wrote an op-ed for the Washington Post in which he laid out his case for killing off the policy that ensured a free and open internet. In it, he offered up one widely-disputed argument for doing so: that blocking, throttling, and…

Tech Policy Dell Cameron Mar 29

FCC to Cough Up $43,000 Settlement for Refusing to Turn Over Fake Comment Records

While not admitting to doing anything wrong, the Federal Communications Commission on Wednesday settled a lawsuit for tens of thousands of dollars after unlawfully withholding records from a reporter under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). The FCC will pay over $43,000 in attorneys’ fees and costs to New York journalist Jason Prechtel over records…

Tech Policy Dell Cameron Mar 21

FCC Admits in Court That It Can’t Track Who Submits Fake Comments

The FCC’s public comment system is a bloody mess. Over the past two years, it’s become apparent that political lobbyists, usually acting on behalf of the telecom industry itself, are prepared to manipulate the agency’s rulemaking process and impersonate everyday Americans just to create the illusion of public support where, in reality, none exists. Last…

Tech Policy Dell Cameron Mar 19

Ajit Pai Promised New Jobs and ‘Better, Cheaper’ Internet. His ISP Pals Have a Different Plan

During the push to repeal net neutrality in 2017, FCC Chairman Ajit Pai made a lot of big promises. At the top of the list were assurances that if America would only revert back to “light-touch” regulation of the broadband industry (as the two-time Courage Award winner put it), we’d all see huge boosts in…

Tech Policy Dell Cameron Mar 14

Democrats’ Net Neutrality Bill Would Force Ajit Pai to Actually Do His Job

Top congressional Democrats on Wednesday introduced legislation to restore the open internet rules repealed by the Trump administration in December 2017. Democrats in the House and Senate introduced companions bills aimed at reinstating the Obama-era net neutrality rules that prohibited broadband providers from blocking or throttling websites or offering preferred businesses higher-quality service for additional…

Tech Policy Dell Cameron Mar 6

House Democrats Will Introduce ‘Save the Internet Act’ to Restore Net Neutrality This Week

House Democrats on Wednesday will introduce a bill to reinstate the net neutrality rules repealed by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) in late 2017. In a letter to Democratic colleagues, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said the bill, know as the “Save the Internet Act,” will be introduced on Wednesday morning at 11:15 am. Text of…

Tech Policy Dell Cameron Mar 4

Comcast Prepares to Screw Over Millions With Data Caps in 2021

Leaked DNC Platform Is Troublingly Vague on Net Neutrality

Biden’s Grand Plan for the Internet: Restore Net Neutrality, Create Municipal Broadband

Cox Might Slow Down a Whole Neighborhood’s Internet If One Person Is Using Too Much Data

Deadly Fungus, Fat Bear Week, PS5 Leaks, and Hot Dog Salad: Best Gizmodo Stories of the Week

FCC Improperly Blocked States From Passing Net Neutrality Laws, Appeals Court Rules

Ajit Pai Is Working Hard to Make Broadband Users Dumb Again

Blood Feasts, Cashless Stores, and Quantum Computing: Best Gizmodo Stories of the Week

Mitch McConnell Called Out for Blocking Vote on Net Neutrality Rules Republicans Actually Like

Man Who Threatened FCC Chairman’s Kids Sentenced to 20 Months

The Biggest Lies We Heard About Net Neutrality This Week

Senator Kamala Harris Invokes Avengers: Infinity War to Defend Net Neutrality

House Democrats Pass Bill to Restore Net Neutrality

Colorado Governor Reportedly Set to Sign Net Neutrality Bill Into Law

The Head of the FTC Just Debunked the FCC’s Favorite Excuse for Killing Net Neutrality

FCC to Cough Up $43,000 Settlement for Refusing to Turn Over Fake Comment Records

FCC Admits in Court That It Can’t Track Who Submits Fake Comments

Ajit Pai Promised New Jobs and ‘Better, Cheaper’ Internet. His ISP Pals Have a Different Plan

Democrats’ Net Neutrality Bill Would Force Ajit Pai to Actually Do His Job

House Democrats Will Introduce ‘Save the Internet Act’ to Restore Net Neutrality This Week

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