Tag Archives: net neutrality

A variety of issues could be driving the rise in spending on lobbying by Google, Facebook and Amazon.com, including the recent decision by the Federal Communications Commission on net neutrality, which all three companies mention or allude to in their first quarter filings.

Over the past two months, a number of events have demonstrated that communities of color support strong open Internet protections.

At stake is whether the Internet remains a democratic, user-powered network.

President Obama has called keeping the Internet free and open for everyone by preserving net neutrality. The message comes just days after news leaked that the FCC was planning on reclassifying the Internet as a utility — meaning it could face tougher regulations — but would still allow fast lanes.

Every major consumer group, a nationwide coalition of mayors, and thousands of startups and small businesses have joined millions of people in urging the FCC to save Net Neutrality.

Can the Federal Communications Commission force Internet service providers to treat all data the same? That is the question Verizon Communications presented to the U.S. Court of Appeals and the court said no. As a result, the FCC has dumped net neutrality.   The court ruled the FCC had overreached its authority by preventing broadband providers from blocking or slowing certain Internet …

Many people in Kiev awoke Tuesday morning (January 20) to a frightening text message on their phones. “Dear subscriber, you are registered as a participant in a mass disturbance,” it read.   Using widely available technology, Ukraine’s dominant carriers have reportedly helped the government pinpoint the locations of their customers. Anyone with a cellphone in the vicinity of recent protests was added …

To say that 2013 was just another year in the struggle to protect our online rights is quite the understatement. When the history of the Internet is written, 2013 will be considered one epic year.   Edward Snowden blew a giant hole in the corporate-government surveillance complex; nearly every week brings new information damning both government agencies and the companies …

The Internet is the world’s largest shopping mall, library, video store, post office and town square. When you turn on your computer, you’re in the driver’s seat, choosing what you want to read, watch, and hear.   We owe everything we love about the Web to net neutrality, the principle that the Internet is an open platform and service providers …