In case you heard otherwise, Netflix still supports the Federal Communications Commission’s move to regulate the Internet like a public utility. “Netflix supports the FCC’s action last week to adopt Title II in ensuring consumers get the Internet they paid for without interference by ISPs,” Anne Marie Sequeo, a spokeswoman for Netflix, said Thursday. “There …
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FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler vehemently defends his Net neutrality policy at Mobile World Congress 2015. Stephen Shankland/CNET BARCELONA — Tom Wheeler, chairman of the US Federal Communications Commission, today defended his agency’s move to regulate the Internet, ensuring that broadband players would be unaffected by his “light touch” approach to the rules. “This is no more regulating the Internet than …
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Four years ago, Sen. Al Franken was one of the few US lawmakers standing up for rules to keep the Internet open. Senator Al Franken (D-Minn.) Now he’s celebrating a victory, along with President Barack Obama and congressional Democrats who applauded the Federal Communications Commission’s new Net neutrality rules adopted last week. For years Franken — comedy writer, author and …
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The Internet flows through cables like these. Networks may be less exciting than apps, but they too require innovation, evolution and revolution. Michael Bocchieri, Getty Images The Federal Communications Commission just approved one of the most expansive regulatory actions in the agency’s history. In one stroke, the commission has tainted its independence, radically departed from a decades-old bipartisan national policy …
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What if your ISP could discriminate against one website in favor of another they have an agreement with? The FCC’s rules will prevent that. Michael Bocchieri, Getty Images If you’re one of the millions of users reading CNET online each month, think about this: When you saw the link to this op-ed and clicked on it, you knew it would …
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James Martin/CNET When it comes to the new Net neutrality rules adopted yesterday by the Federal Communications Commission, people think either that US regulators have liberated the Internet from the shackles of oppressive broadband providers or that they’ve turned the Internet, and the industry built around it, into an overregulated kludge. Well, it’s not either/or. After months of intense debate, …
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It’s official. The Internet will now be regulated as a public utility. After months of anticipation and weeks of frenzied last-minute lobbying on both sides of the political aisle, the Federal Communications Commission has adopted Net neutrality regulations based on a new definition of broadband that will let the government regulate Internet infrastructure as it could the old telephone network. …
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This CNET Update is jammin’ with news on the Apple Watch, Net neutrality, Google Play Music… and two old-school homies from Funkotron: Now playing: Watch this: Apple’s event could be time for more than a Watch 3:00 Read more on the stories featured in this tech-news roundup: Apple invites us to apple-invites-press-to-march-9-spring-forward-event LG unveils the first 4G smartwatch , and …
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Protesters lined up outside the FCC headquarters in May in reaction to Chairman Tom Wheeler’s initial Net neutrality proposal. Getty Images Depending on whom you listen to, the Federal Communications Commission is either about to save the Internet or destroy it. The agency, led by Democrat Tom Wheeler, who was appointed as FCC chairman by President Barack Obama in 2013, …
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Emotions have run high over Net neutrality. Here, protesters interrupt a meeting of the FCC commissioners in December. Brendan Smialowski/AFP/Getty Images Senate Republicans appear to have largely abandoned efforts to fight an FCC vote later this week that’s expected to reclassify broadband as a public utility-like service. After years of grappling with how much or even whether the federal government …
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