FCC Launches 'Open Internet Challenge'
The Federal Communications Commission is marketing net neutrality with what it’s calling the Open Internet Challenge. The challenge is designed to encourage the development of software tools that provide consumers with real-time data about their fixed or mobile broadband Internet connection. Though the FCC passed a set of net neutrality rules in December, it will […]
FCC Approves New Regulations for Net Neutrality
The FCC has announced new rules and regulations that will govern the use of the Internet, and could potentially affect your business. In a 3-2 decision last week, the Federal Communications Commission approved new rules that are intended to prevent internet service providers from interfering with web traffic. Commissioner Julius Genachowski and the FCC have […]
Divided FCC adopts rules to protect Web traffic
WASHINGTON (AP) — A divided Federal Communications Commission has approved new rules meant to prohibit broadband companies from interfering with Internet traffic flowing to their customers. The 3-2 vote Tuesday marks a major victory for FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski, who has spent more than a year trying to craft a compromise. The FCC’s three Democrats […]
A Scary Picture for the Future of the Wireless Web
The fight over Net Neutrality — that fundamental principle that keeps the Internet open and free from discrimination — can get pretty wonky. It’s sometimes hard to find the right words when you’re trying to communicate to policymakers, geeks and the general public at the same time. How do crucial issues like “paid prioritization” harm […]
FCC Postpones Net Neutrality Vote to Dec 21st
After more than five years of hemming and hawing, the FCC appears close to voting on net neutrality, the hotly contested means of overseeing Internet access. The FCC has postponed its Dec. 2 meeting to Dec. 21, prompting speculation the agency is getting its ducks in a row for a vote on the politically polarized […]
The ACLU Answers Key Questions on Net Neutrality Today at 4PM ET on Facebook
Don’t let the big telecoms trade your free speech for their own profit The Internet has become so much a part of the lives of most Americans that it is easy to imagine that it is immune to change – that it will always remain the free and open medium that it is now. But […]
The final nail in coffin for Net neutrality?
NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) — Before Tuesday’s midterm elections, there were 95 House and Senate candidates who pledged support for Net neutrality, a bill that would force Internet providers to not charge users more for certain kinds of Web content. All of them lost — and that could mean the contentious proposal may now be all […]
Netflix tangles with ISPs on net neutrality
Netflix, the Blockbuster-buster and mail-order DVD titan, is now calling itself a full-fledged Internet company and says it may begin to offer online-only video-streaming subscriptions this year. And with its remarks, made Wednesday as part of its third-quarter earnings announcement, the Silicon Valley-based firm is wading deeper into a debate over proposed federal net neutrality […]
ACLU says Net Neutrality protects free speech!
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) released a report on Tuesday that argues net-neutrality policies are crucial to protect free speech. “Network neutrality is a consumer issue, but it is also one of the foremost free speech issues of our time,” the report says. Net neutrality is the concept that argues phone and cable companies […]
BBC backs net neutrality as the debate heats up in Europe
While net neutrality has become a hot political topic in the US, it’s not been quite as openly debated in Europe of late. That appears to be changing. Today the BBC’s Director of Future Media & Technology, Erik Huggers has thrown his hat into the ring in a blog post supporting the ideal of an […]
Britain’s sleepwalking into a net neutrality nightmare
Imagine that you get home tonight, flick on the TV and BBC1 isn’t there. Not absent because of a strike or a temporary technical fault, but because ITV had paid Sky not to carry BBC1 on its satellite network so that it could gobble up a greater share of the viewing figures. I suspect it would […]
US Congress FAILS on efforts to PASS Net Neutrality Bill
Congress seems to have ended its involvement in the long-running network-neutrality debate by declaring its own neutrality in the matter. As my colleague Cecilia Kang reported Wednesday, House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Henry Waxman (D-Calif.) gave up on his efforts to pass a net-neutrality bill after failing to get any Republican backing for a […]
