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Internet service providers got an early Christmas gift. The Federal Communications Commission voted Thursday to repeal Obama-era net neutrality rules, handing the broadband and wireless industries a big victory in their battle against government oversight of the internet. The Republican-led FCC voted 3-2 along party lines to dismantle the 2015 regulations, which ensured all traffic …

FCC Chairman Ajit Pai wants the US government to stop “micromanaging the internet.” On Tuesday he introduced a proposal to repeal the controversial 2015 net neutrality rules that prevented broadband companies from blocking or slowing down access to websites or services.  While many people agree with the basic principles of net neutrality, these specific rules have been a lightning rod …

There’s nothing like a disaster to prompt a call for change.In early October, Congress grilled Equifax’s former CEO, Richard Smith, in four separate committee hearings about how his credit reporting agency put the consumer records of over 145 million people in jeopardy.How bad was the hack? Pretty bad. We’ll be feeling the effects for “essentially a hundred years, until everybody …

British Prime Minister Theresa May will be joined by the leaders of France and Italy in calling for terrorist content to be removed from the internet within one to two hours after it has been posted. World leaders and internet giants including Facebook, Google and Microsoft are set to meet at the UN General Assembly in New York on Wednesday …

Accessing pirate sites on the internet just got that little bit harder in Australia. In two concurrent cases brought by Foxtel and Roadshow Films against Australia’s biggest internet service providers, the Federal Court of Australia has ordered ISPs to block access to more than 50 pirate sites within three weeks.  The total block list from both rights holders includes 66 separately-listed websites, …

Now playing: Watch this: VPN explained: A privacy primer — with robots and race… 1:39 Russia has become the latest country to declare war on VPNs. Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed legislation that prohibits the use of virtual private networks and anonymizers, Reuters reported Sunday. The new law is intended to prevent access to websites banned by the Russian …

 Technically Incorrect offers a slightly twisted take on the tech that’s taken over our lives. Should this practice be banned? Richard Levine As a car driver, it drives you mad. But when you’re a pedestrian, have you ever crossed a road while, say, looking at Facebook or even replying to a text?  Be honest now, and beware if you go …

Millions of people have answered a call to support the Federal Communications Commission’s existing net neutrality rules.  But will that be enough to convince the agency to back off of its plan to kill them? In response to the planned overhaul, the Republican-led FCC has received a record-breaking 7.4 million comments — nearly double the amount it received in 2014 when it …

Sen. Al Franken wants to make sure that deep-pocketed broadband companies can’t hijack the internet. That’s the message the Minnesota Democrat has been delivering in a series of videos, tweets and Facebook posts in support of the FCC’s 2015 net neutrality rules. Franken, along with several other Democrats in the Senate, have been turning up the pressure on the FCC …

Thursday, PBS announced a partnership with T-Mobile to supply wireless coverage and access to public television to rural parts of America. The wireless carrier T-Mobile will help cover the costs to expand coverage to millions of people in remote areas, ensuring availability of public television and programs like “Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood”, “Masterpiece” and “PBS NewsHour”. “Moves like this will help us …