The first lawsuits to overturn the Federal Communications Commission’s rollback of Obama-era net neutrality rules have been filed. Attorneys general from 22 states filed a lawsuit on Tuesday to block the repeal of the rules. Mozilla, maker of the Firefox browser, also said it has filed a suit against the FCC, and several public interest …
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Senate Democrats have enough support to force a vote on reversing the Federal Communications Commission’s repeal of Obama-era net neutrality regulations. Sen. Claire McCaskill, a Democrat from Missouri, said Monday she will be the 30th co-sponsor of a bill that will use the Congressional Review Act to reverse the FCC’s vote to dismantle net neutrality rules. By Tuesday 40 senators …
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President Donald Trump signed an executive order Monday aimed at making it easier for companies to deploy high-speed broadband networks in rural areas. Speaking at the annual convention of the American Farm Bureau Federation in Nashville Monday, Trump unveiled and then signed a presidential order that expedites federal permitting to allow broadband expansion in rural areas and makes it easier …
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The lobbying group representing Amazon, Facebook, Google, Netflix, Twitter and several other big tech companies plans to join the legal fight to protect net neutrality. The Washington, DC-based Internet Association on Friday said it plans to “intervene” in lawsuits that are expected to be filed against the Federal Communications Commission challenging its repeal last month of the 2015 net neutrality regulations. …
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Federal Communications Chairman Ajit Pai has canceled plans to speak at the CES tech trade show in Las Vegas next week. Federal Communications Commission Chairman Ajit Pai will not speak this year at CES. Alex Wong / Getty Images Pai was scheduled to sit down Tuesday with the head of the Federal Trade Commission, fellow Republican Maureen Ohlhausen, as part …
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President Donald Trump’s Federal Communications Commission has wasted little time making big and small changes to your life — even if you haven’t noticed. FCC Chairman Ajit Pai, who enjoys a 3-2 Republican majority on the commission, has taken Trump’s pro-business, anti-regulation ethos to heart and has raced to roll back rules governing how the internet and service providers work. …
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Nine hundred million comments and 12 billion upvotes later, Reddit has posted its best-of lists for 2017. The fourth-most visited site on the internet says its most upvoted post was one called “The Senate. Upvote this so that people see it when they Google ‘The Senate’.” The second-ranking post, “Private Internet Access, a VPN provider, takes out a full page …
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Democrats on Capitol Hill say they aren’t giving up on their fight to preserve Obama-era net neutrality rules, which were eliminated Thursday by Republicans in the FCC. U.S. Sens. Ed Markey of Massachusetts and Brian Schatz of Hawaii are leading more than a dozen senators to introduce a Congressional Review Act resolution aimed at undoing the FCC’s actions and fully …
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On Thursday, the Federal Communications Commission voted along party lines to overturn net neutrality, Obama-era rules that ensured all traffic on the internet is treated equally. So why do it? Here’s the full text of statements from Chairman Ajit Pai, Commissioner Brendan Carr and Commissioner Michael O’Rielly. You can read more from the FCC commissioners in our interviews and other coverage. On …
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Net neutrality has just been neutered in the US. On Thursday, with a 3-2 vote along party lines, the Republican-led Federal Communications Commission stripped itself of the authority to ensure traffic on the internet is treated equally, so US internet service providers can’t block, slow or speed up online content. Needless to say, the two Democratic FCC commissioners who voted …
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