Open Internet

The FCC Continues Kicking Ass By Subsidizing Broadband Internet

A little over a year ago, the Federal Communications Commission seemed like an evil cabal of cronies, threatening to ruin the US as we know it. Today, the agency is making decisions to help securing the future of the internet, giving broadband to poor people, and banning robocalls. Isn’t this a pleasant surprise. Net Neutrality…

Tech News Adam Clark Estes Jun 18

How to Yell at the FCC About Your Cable Company Violating Net Neutrality

Hell yes: The new open internet rules that the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) passed a few months ago take effect today. The downside is that the internet’s future is hardly secure, as the rules will be stuck in litigation limbo for years. Nevertheless, you can now officially complain that your cable company is screwing up…

Tech News Adam Clark Estes Jun 12

How Verizon Buying AOL Subverts an Open Internet

Telecommunication companies were up in arms in February after the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) made net neutrality the law of the land by classifying broadband internet as a utility, seeming to ensure there would be no pay-to-play fast lanes. Not so fast. As Verizon’s planned acquisition of AOL reminds us, there’s another way to cash…

Tech News Subhajyoti Bandyopadhyay and Hong Guo - The Conversation May 21

Mark Zuckerberg Is Just Plain Bad at Net Neutrality

Mark Zuckerberg means well. Or at least the billionaire says he does in a recent blog post about net neutrality and the Facebook-backed initiative Internet.org. Long story short, publishers in India are pulling their content from the Internet.org app over apparent net neutrality violations, and well, Zuck’s reaction is pretty much: ¯_(ツ)_/¯ Obviously, it’s more…

Social Media Adam Clark Estes Apr 17

Read the FCC’s Net Neutrality Rules Here

This is it. This is the day that your overly specific and impressively skeptical questions about the Federal Communications Commission’s new net neutrality rules can finally be answered. The agency just released the full text of the policy that will protect the open internet. The full 400 pages of the FCC’s policy and research on…

Tech News Adam Clark Estes Mar 12

Net Neutrality Wins: What Now?

It’s a historic day for the internet. The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) just passed the strongest net neutrality rules in this country’s history. This is great news! But let me repeat: The battle for net neutrality is still not over. In a sense, the real battle begins now. Now that the vote is in, a…

Tech News Adam Clark Estes Feb 26

Here’s What That Dumb Porn Parody Gets Wrong on Net Neutrality

Net neutrality propaganda is starting to get weird. A brand new interest group showed up this week with a confusing porn parody that seems to equate Title II reclassification of the internet with dragnet surveillance, among other fallacies. It’s a good chance to talk about what the Federal Communications Commission’s new open internet policy is—and…

Tech News Adam Clark Estes Feb 6

F.C.C. Will Consider ‘Hybrid’ Approach to Net Neutrality

The Federal Communications Commission will soon consider a proposal that would grant the agency regulatory authority over the flow of Internet traffic between content providers and Internet service providers, the New York Times reports. https://gizmodo.com/the-third-world-war-will-be-fought-over-information-5330104 https://gizmodo.com/the-weirdest-angriest-and-most-heartfelt-comments-on-1628389996 The so-called “hybrid” solution would establish a distinction between “wholesale” and “retail” transactions, and is the latest to gain…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez Nov 1

The FCC Just Released 2,444,672 Public Comments About Net Neutrality

The FCC’s proposed “Open Internet” rule is the single most commented-on rulemaking in the history of the agency, with nearly 4 million submissions to date. The FCC just dumped all of the words from the second commenting period, which ran from July 19th-September 15. The dump of 2,444,672 comments dwarfs the already massive heap of…

Tech News Mario Aguilar Oct 22

The Weirdest, Angriest, and Most Heartfelt Comments on Net Neutrality

The FCC currently has over a million comments on net neutrality. They range from touching, to weird, to apocalyptically angry. We’ve plucked out a few superlative comments to highlight here, but the FCC extended deadline to September 15th so there’s still time for you to send a profanity-laced response. If you haven’t already. Top image:…

io9 Katharine Trendacosta Aug 29

Should Copyright Law Also Cover Hyperlinks?

The U.S. Copyright Office recently proposed a seemingly small addition to copyright law that bears some huge implications. It wants to enable copyright holders to protect unauthorized versions of their work from hyperlinks. You read that right: it could soon be illegal simply to link to certain content. Think about that for a second. Let’s…

Tech News Adam Clark Estes Apr 10

The Grim Future of a World Without Net Neutrality

A federal court dealt a deadly blow to net neutrality on Tuesday by striking down the FCC’s open Internet rules and practically inviting broadband providers to offer preferential treatment to companies willing to pay for it. It was a deadly blow, but did it really kill net neutrality dead? https://gizmodo.com/federal-court-invalidates-net-neutrality-rules-sides-w-1501028467 The future of net neutrality…

Tech News Adam Clark Estes Jan 14

FCC Net Neutrality Rules Slammed From All Sides

The federal government’s new internet fairness policy-designed to prevent the nation’s cable and DSL internet service providers from meddling with the open nature of the internet-was met with boisterous criticism Monday night from all sides of the political spectrum. Republicans, including FCC commissioner Robert McDowell, blasted the new rules as an interventionist over-reach by an…

Tech News Ryan Singel - Wired Dec 21

The FCC Continues Kicking Ass By Subsidizing Broadband Internet

How to Yell at the FCC About Your Cable Company Violating Net Neutrality

How Verizon Buying AOL Subverts an Open Internet

Mark Zuckerberg Is Just Plain Bad at Net Neutrality

Read the FCC’s Net Neutrality Rules Here

Net Neutrality Wins: What Now?

Here’s What That Dumb Porn Parody Gets Wrong on Net Neutrality

F.C.C. Will Consider ‘Hybrid’ Approach to Net Neutrality

The FCC Just Released 2,444,672 Public Comments About Net Neutrality

The Weirdest, Angriest, and Most Heartfelt Comments on Net Neutrality

Should Copyright Law Also Cover Hyperlinks?

The Grim Future of a World Without Net Neutrality

FCC Net Neutrality Rules Slammed From All Sides

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