In a ruling Tuesday, a federal appeals court upheld the Federal Communications Commission’s controversial repeal of Obama-era net neutrality protections. But the substance of that ruling leaves the door open for states and local governments to write their own regulations. In California, which adopted such regulations last year only to freeze them in a deal […]
FCC Chairman Ajit Pai On Tuesday, the DC Circuit Court of Appeals upheld most of the FCC’s 2017 unpopular repeal net neutrality. However, the court ruled the agency’s attempt to preempt individual states from creating new rules to regulate ISPs and telcos was illegal. The backstory. Net neutrality was passed during the second term of
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The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit has ruled on the controversial net neutrality rollbacks passed by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). In 2018 the FCC moved to deregulate the broadband and telecommunications industries, setting off a battle that has repercussions for the very core of the Internet. At the heart of the
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WASHINGTON — A federal appeals court upheld on Tuesday the government’s dismantling of rules that regulate companies that connect consumers to the internet, but said that the Federal Communications Commission had overstepped by broadly blocking state and local governments from writing their own rules. The mixed ruling, by the United States Court of Appeals for
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A federal appeals court on Tuesday affirmed the Trump administration acted lawfully when it scrapped the U.S. government’s net neutrality rules in 2017, dealing a blow to tech giants and consumer advocates who argued that the repeal would create a stratified Internet of fast and slow lanes. In a nearly 200-page opinion, judges on the
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A new study suggests that major ISPs have been blocking BitTorrent traffic on mobile networks. This is in direct violation of the net neutrality regulations implemented by the European Parliament. When Europe’s first net neutrality rules were implemented in 2015, it was believed that this would end BitTorrent blocking. However, the analysis done by Valerio
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It finally happened. The repeal of net neutrality laws by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) took effect on Monday. According to the FCC, the repeal will put an end to the “unnecessary, heavy-handed regulations” implemented by the previous administration and move forward with “common-sense regulations that will promote investment and broadband deployment.” Net neutrality died
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Using a Congressional Review Act (CRA) resolution, all Senate Democrats along with three Republicans voted to reverse the Federal Communications Commission’s repeal of net neutrality rules with a 52 to 47 vote. This comes less than a month before the FCC’s repeal becomes official on June 11, 2018. And as issues go, net neutrality is
The US Senate voted on Wednesday to save net neutrality. The chambers used the Congressional Review Act (CRA) to stop the Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC) decision to undo regulations regarding Internet usage set during the term of President Barack Obama. The bill was passed with a 52 to 47 vote, with the Democrats and Independents
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The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has announced that net neutrality protections will be repealed on June 11, 30 days after the notice was filed on Thursday. Alongside the expiration, new rules governing Internet service providers will also take effect. According to FCC Chairman Ajit Pai, previous rules were deemed as “utility-styled and heavy-handed.” He also
