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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 …

President Donald Trump’s FCC has put the kibosh on controversial Obama-era net neutrality regulations. At its monthly meeting Thursday, the Federal Communications Commission, led by Republican Chairman Ajit Pai, voted to repeal regulation passed in 2015 that prevented broadband companies from blocking or slowing access to websites or services. The rules also prohibited broadband companies from offering paid-priority services that …

The Federal Communications Commission may have voted to roll back net neutrality rules, but some state lawmakers and attorneys general say they’ll battle the feds to make sure online traffic is treated equally. Politicians from California, Washington and New York said Thursday they’ll use a mix of legislative action and legal moves to fight the FCC’s repeal of net neutrality …

New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman’s staffers have likely been burning the midnight oil. Just a day before the FCC’s scheduled vote to reverse net neutrality rules, Schneiderman reported that as many as 2 million comments submitted to the agency on the topic misused identities of real Americans. He says he found more than 100,000 “fake comments” per state from …

The Federal Communications Commission shouldn’t vote on whether to end net neutrality just yet, a group of 28 senators said in a letter sent Monday.  It needs to first investigate claims that hundreds of thousands — and perhaps millions — of public comments on the controversial policy change appear to have been made by bots posing as regular people, they …

Net neutrality rules are expected to be repealed on Dec. 14. Ahead of that FCC vote, we discuss many of the thorny issues involved, including censorship, potentially higher costs to customers and the need for telecommunications infrastructure investment.  On the podcast, we talk about: FCC Chairman Ajit Pai making his case against existing net neutrality rules and claiming Twitter could be more …

Well, now we know what paid for all those programmers cranking out the overhauled Firefox Quantum browser: a major infusion of new money. Mozilla, the nonprofit behind the open-source web browser, saw its 2016 revenue increase 24 percent to an all-time high of $520 million, it said Friday. Expenses grew too, but not as much, from $361 million to $337 …

Now playing: Watch this: Net neutrality rollback: is the open internet under siege?… 5:07 Here’s what we’re talking about in today’s podcast. FCC Chairman Ajit Pai makes his case against existing net neutrality rules and claims Twitter could be more harmful to an open internet than killing net neutrality. Comcast denies plans to offer internet “fast lanes.” The 3:59 gives you …

It appears the bots are really into the net neutrality issue too.  When the Federal Communications Commission opened up this year for comments on the rules governing net neutrality, or the principle that all internet traffic must be treated equally, it received nearly 22 million comments in the four months from late April to the end of August. That’s roughly …

FCC Chairman Ajit Pai has gone on the attack to defend his proposal to roll back net neutrality regulations. Pai said in a speech Tuesday he wanted to “cut through the hysteria and hot air” about the proposal he unveiled last week to unwind the Obama-era rules that prevent broadband companies from controlling consumers’ internet experience. The Federal Communications Commission …