According to World Wide Web inventor Tim Berners-Lee, Apple Co-Founder Steve Wozniak, Internet Archive founder Brewster Kahle and a host of other internet pioneers, “The FCC’s rushed and technically incorrect proposed Order to abolish net neutrality protections without any replacement is an imminent threat to the Internet we worked so hard to create”, they wrote…
Federal Communications Commissioner Mignon Clyburn has helpfully proposed some simple edits to Chairman Ajit Pai’s proposal to end Net Neutrality. Pai’s proposal is likely to be approved by the FCC on Thursday, and would be a major gift to the largest telecom providers in the country, including Pai’s former employer, Verizon, at the expense of…
A group of U.S. Senators has sent an urgent letter to FCC Chairman Ajit Pai asking that he postpone the upcoming vote on ending Net Neutrality protections, after the FCC failed to address the submission of thousands of fraudulent comments supporting the end of those protections. …
We’ve written quite recently about FCC Chair Ajit Pai’s plan to dismantle Net Neutrality principles and end the open internet as we know it, a tremendously valuable potential gift to Pai’s former employer, Verizon, and other wireless, telecom, and cable corporations. Below is a backgrounder on Net Neutrality from Free Press. Support for Net Neutrality…
Pai’s Anti-Net Neutrality Agenda a War on the Public Commons Benefiting Corporate Telecom and Cable Giants If there were ever any doubt about who would benefit most from the rise of FCC commissioner Ajit Pai to the chairmanship of that Trump administration agency, Pai has moved quickly to clarify the issue – corporate giants such as…
From FreePress.net: Big Phone and Cable’s Summer Hack-a-thon September 3, 2015 In the last few weeks at least five anti-Net Neutrality Op-Eds have appeared in newspapers around the country. These pieces strike suspiciously familiar notes — and in some cases use identical language. All of this begs the obvious question: Did the phone and cable…
