The debate surrounding net neutrality raises several free speech questions. Is net neutrality really the "First Amendment of the Internet," as some of its supporters maintain? Are internet service ...
FCC Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel on Wednesday announced plans to vote on rules restoring net neutrality. The vote, set for April 25, would reinstate 2015 internet rules adopted under President Obama ...
Unsurprisingly, when Biden assumed office, Rosenworcel managed to catch her breath. This discussion completely evaporated. She hasn’t said a word about the administration’s jawboning and co-opting of ...
The agency made clear that when it came to net neutrality, consumers should expect that their broadband providers would not block, throttle, or engage in paid prioritization of lawful internet traffic ...
The fight to ensure that the Internet remains a fair and neutral medium for free speech and commerce is facing a crucial new test. Later this week — most likely Wednesday — the Senate will vote on ...
U.S. Representative Cliff Stearns wants so badly to stop the U.S. Federal Communications Commission from creating network neutrality rules that he appears ready to weaken the U.S. Constitution's First ...
In its latest bid to nix net neutrality regulations, the National Cable & Telecommunications Association is arguing that such rules would violate free speech principles. "It should not be lost on ...
Seven years ago, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), under President Donald Trump's hand-picked Chair Ajit Pai, a former Verizon in-house lawyer, killed off net neutrality. In a decisive move ...
One of the longest, most technical and, as it turns out, most inconsequential public-policy debates of the 21st-century was about net neutrality. Now that a federal appeals court has effectively ended ...
The basic conflict is a result of the history of the internet, and the telecommunications industry more generally, writes internet law scholar Allen Hammond at Santa Clara University: "Like the ...