Netflix Wins Tech Hypo(crite) Award for Lying about Video ThrottlingTech Darling Cynically Manipulated Net Neutrality Debate to Ban What It Did in Secret
The FCC’s 305 (Not So Dirty) WordsThe 300+ page “secret Obama plan to regulate the internet” turns out to have just 305 words of substantive new rules. Here they are.
FCC Bombshell: Wheeler Refuses to Leave, Thwarts Rosenworcel RenomWhy is Wheeler Blocking His Fellow Democrat?Today’s Senate Commerce Committee FCC oversight hearing opened with Ranking Member Bill Nelson (D-FL) complaining…
20 Years Later: Congress Didn’t See the Internet ComingTwenty years ago today, President Clinton signed the Telecommunications Act of 1996. John Podesta, his chief of staff immediately saw the problem: “Aside from hooking up schools and libraries, and with the rather major exception of…
…on open set-top boxes“Asking a cable company to compete is like asking water to be dry. It is simply not supported by nature.”Inside the FCC’s audacious plan to blow up the cable boxNilay Patel, www.theverge.com
Will the FCC lead the way for consumers, creators, and the public interest?This month the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) moved forward on two important measures that will increase both choice and content diversity for pay TV consumers.
FCC Uses Self-Manufactured Privacy Crisis to Justify Naked Power GrabToday, the FCC voted to issue proposed privacy rules to govern the privacy and data security practices of broadband ISPs. These areas had been regulated by the Federal Trade Commission, but the FCC’s 2015 Open…
