Mignon Clyburn is concerned the Federal Communications Commission is prioritizing corporations over consumers, according to Ars Technica. Before leaving the agency this month, the former commissioner told the publication that the FCC’s top priority is to ensure all Americans have “affordable, efficient, and effective” access to communications services. If the agency doesn’t work to make …
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Democrats were victorious in their final stand to save net neutrality. And you can thank a few Republicans who decided to switch sides. The clock has been ticking on net neutrality, with those rules set to expire next month. On Wednesday, the US Senate approved a resolution to turn back the Federal Communications Commission’s repeal of the regulations. (You can …
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The Federal Communications Commission’s 2015 net neutrality rules will officially be dead as of June 11, the agency said Thursday. Those rules, instituted during the Obama administration, were meant to keep broadband and wireless providers from slowing or blocking internet traffic. Then last December, the Republican-led FCC under President Donald Trump began the rollback of those rules, eliminating what Chairman …
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AT&T may ask the US Supreme Court to end a lawsuit filed by the Federal Trade Commission over the carrier’s data throttling policies for unlimited plans. In 2014, the FTC sued AT&T in the US District Court of Northern California, accusing the company of promising unlimited data service to customers and then slowing that service down to rates that were …
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Net neutrality activists and websites like Etsy, Tumblr, Postmates, Foursquare and Twilio will post “red alerts” starting May 9 to protest the FCC’s effort to roll back Obama-era net neutrality protections. This latest protest, announced Monday, is set to coincide with the next step in an ongoing process in the Senate to use the Congressional Review Act (CRA) to halt …
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On this podcast, we talk about: ZTE potentially losing the right to use Android thanks to a US Commerce Department ban. Amazon partnering with Best Buy to sell smart TVs. California’s net neutrality bill taking one more step toward becoming a law. Our uber-profile of Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg. The 3:59 gives you bite-size news and analysis about the top …
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Democrat Mignon Clyburn, a leading defender of net neutrality, announced Tuesday she will be stepping down from the Federal Communications Commission in the next month, ending an eight-year stint at the agency. Clyburn announced her departure at the FCC’s April meeting and said she’d step down before the agency’s next scheduled meeting on May 10. “I’ve done all I know …
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An attempt in California to replace the FCC’s repealed Obama-era net neutrality rules faces its first legislative test Tuesday. Senate Bill 822, written by state Sen. Scott Wiener, a Democrat from San Francisco, will get its first hearing before the Energy, Utilities and Communications Committee, which could gut key provisions of the legislation. In its original form, the California bill offers consumers …
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Here’s what we’re talking about in this podcast: Facebook starts telling its users if they were affected by the Cambridge Analytica breach. Plus, on Tuesday and Wednesday CEO Mark Zuckerberg will give testimony to Congress about the scandal. Oregon passes a law to protect net neutrality rules. Verizon reports that ransomware attacks doubled in 2017. Now playing: Watch this: …
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The American Civil Liberties Union is pointing to a potential savior for net neutrality: your local municipal government. The ACLU published a report titled “The Public Internet Option,” calling for more municipal governments to offer their own internet service, potentially competing for subscribers with the likes of telecommunications and cable companies. “In offering public broadband service, local governments need to …
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