More than a year after net neutrality was essentially abolished by a divided Federal Communications Commission, a major legal challenge supported by dozens of companies and advocates has its day in court tomorrow. Mozilla v. FCC argues that the agency’s decision was not just dead wrong, but achieved illegally.
View More Net neutrality battle gets a new day in court tomorrowCategory: net neutrality vote
What to expect now that net neutrality is finally dead: A whole lot of nothing
Today is the day that, after months of delays, the FCC’s repeal of net neutrality finally takes effect. But if you’re expecting broadband providers to suddenly feast on their customers and institute every now-legal impediment they can on free expression, I’m afraid you’ll be disappointed. What comes next isn’t internet hell but legal purgatory.
View More What to expect now that net neutrality is finally dead: A whole lot of nothingRepresentatives rip FCC Chairman Pai’s ‘lack of candor’ and double down on net neutrality questions
13 members of Congress have written to FCC Chairman Ajit Pai criticizing his “repeated evasive responses to our inquiries” and “outright refusal to respond to some of the members of this Committee.” Unsatisfied with the answers or evasions he has offered to date, they reiterate questions related to net neutrality and other issues that they’ve sent over the past months.
View More Representatives rip FCC Chairman Pai’s ‘lack of candor’ and double down on net neutrality questionsAfter Senate victory, House announces plans to force its own vote on net neutrality
Hot on the heels of a surprising 52-47 Senate disapproval of the FCC’s new, weaker net neutrality rules, the House of Representatives will soon attempt to force a similar vote. Representative Mike Doyle (D-PA) announced in a statement and at a press conference following the Senate vote that he will begin the process first thing tomorrow morning.
View More After Senate victory, House announces plans to force its own vote on net neutralitySenate votes to reverse FCC order and restore net neutrality
The Senate today voted 52-47 to disapprove the FCC’s recent order replacing 2015’s net neutrality rules, a pleasant surprise for internet advocates and consumers throughout the country.
View More Senate votes to reverse FCC order and restore net neutralityNet neutrality will officially die on June 11
After months of tension and a variety of smaller milestones, the FCC order voiding 2015’s net neutrality rules and instating its own weaker version will take effect on June 11, the agency’s chairman Ajit Pai said today.
View More Net neutrality will officially die on June 11Senators file to force vote on disapproval of FCC’s new net neutrality rules
The Democratic push to restore net neutrality took another step today with the official filing of a petition, under the Congressional Review Act, to force a vote on whether to repeal the FCC’s unpopular new rules. The effort may be doomed in the end, but it’s still extremely important.
View More Senators file to force vote on disapproval of FCC’s new net neutrality rulesSenate Democrats plan to push rollback of FCC’s new net neutrality rules in May
One of the several ways opponents of the FCC’s new net neutrality rules plan to push back is to use the Congressional Review Act to nix the Commission’s order before it has a chance to take effect. Although Democrats in the Senate are currently one vote short of success, they plan to force the vote soon anyway, perhaps as early as mid-May.
View More Senate Democrats plan to push rollback of FCC’s new net neutrality rules in MayNet neutrality is officially dead today, but the fight to revive it lives on
Net neutrality’s protracted, multi-phase death scene has finally come to an end with a whimper as the FCC rules proposed in May, voted on in December, and entered in the Federal Register in February finally come into effect today. But as before, don’t expect some big fanfare by broadband providers and a sudden ratcheting up of prices. Things are going to stay quietly tense for a while.
View More Net neutrality is officially dead today, but the fight to revive it lives onFCC Commissioner Mignon Clyburn reiterates need to fight for open internet
When the FCC rolled back net neutrality protections in December, advocates for the free, open internet came out in masse. Although the decision has been made, the fight isn’t over yet, and that’s what FCC Commissioner Mignon Clyburn reiterated today at the 5th annual Lesbians Who Tech conference at the Castro Theatre in San Francisco. “What the FCC did was to depress —… Read More
The GAO will investigate potential fraud in the FCC’s net neutrality comments… in 5 months
The Government Accountability Office has accepted a Congressional request to investigate the possibility of fraud and identify theft in the comments for the FCC’s net neutrality rollback. Several members of Congress wrote asking for this in December, and the GAO will look into it — in five months or so. Read More
With all 49 Democrats on board, Senate leaders sound off on plan to restore net neutrality
Democrats in the Senate have achieved unanimous party support of the plan to undo the FCC’s recently passed order gutting net neutrality. All 49 Democratic Senators and one Republican are ready to officially disapprove the Restoring Internet Freedom rule, requiring only one more vote to send this bill to… its inevitable death on the floor of the House or at best the desk of the… Read More