The chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, Ajit Pai, fired a direct shot across the bow of the technocrats who control social media platforms today. Chairman Pai righteously called out Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, and other platform control agents for being ideologically biased, and using their platforms to target their ideological opposition. Defending his plan to […]
Internet Giants Block Opposing Views, Threaten Open Web…
FCC Plans Total Repeal of Net Neutrality Rules…
Federal Communications Commission Chairman Ajit Pai will reveal plans to his fellow commissioners on Tuesday to fully dismantle the agency’s Obama-era net neutrality regulations, people familiar with the plans said, in a major victory for the telecom industry in the long-running policy debate. The commission will vote on the proposal in December, some seven months…
Tim Berners-Lee Worldwide Web Inventor: Protect Net Neutrality and Internet Freedom…
Treating all content equally online is key to individual empowerment, democracy and economic growth. But the FCC is threatening to take that away. How do you use the World Wide Web? People use it for all kinds of different things: to read email, post an update on social media, check in to a work meeting, […]
Net Neutrality Blitz Is Coming Courtesy of Amazon, Google, Netflix and Hundreds of Websites…
If the activists’ predictions pan out, Wednesday might see one of the largest digital protests to date. Dozens of websites and apps have joined ranks with consumer advocacy groups, through a “Day of Action,” to publicly protest the plan by the Federal Communications Commission to roll back regulations it placed on Internet service providers in […]
Cable Industry Lobbyists Write Republican Talking Points on Net Neutrality…
Following the vote last week by the Federal Communication Commission to unwind the net neutrality rules enacted during the Obama administration, House Republican lawmakers received an email from GOP leadership on how to defend the decision. The email was shared with The Intercept and the Center for Media and Democracy. Net neutrality is the principle […]
The New Free Speech Coalition Threatens the Tech-Left’s Net Neutrality with a REAL Free and Open Internet…
The tech-left’s creative use of online movement building, coalition organizing, and millions in liberal foundation and Silicon Valley financing largely dominated the online political dialogue during the Obama years. But while radical netroots progressives have long paid lip service to an “open Internet” as an essential tool to ensure a free press and political transparency, […]
‘Power Grab’: FCC Website Hit with 128k Anti-Net Neutrality Messages in Bot Cyberattack…
After the FCC announced plans to rollback net neutrality regulations, their public comment system was flooded with hundreds of thousands of comments crashing the system. Many of the comments appear to be fake and from a bot. Two weeks ago, Federal Communications Commission (FCC) chairman Ajit Pai announced plans to reverse net neutrality rules put […]
Open Internet Advocates Vow to Fight Trump FCC’s Plan to Kill Net Neutrality…
Ten years of fighting for internet freedom, potentially out the window because Donald Trump was elected president and chose as his top telecom regulator a former Verizon lawyer who’s hell-bent on killing federal rules safeguarding net neutrality, the internet’s open access principle. That’s the prospect facing open internet advocates following Wednesday’s announcement that Trump’s…
Big Internet Firms to Oppose GOP Plans to Roll Back Net-Neutrality Rules…
The Internet Association, a trade group that includes companies such as of Netflix Inc. and Facebook Inc., told Federal Communications Commission Chairman Ajit Pai in a meeting that it “continues its vigorous support of the FCC’s [net-neutrality] order,” the group said in a regulatory filing. It added that the net-neutrality rules are “a vital component […]