In a speech Friday to mark his first 100 days in charge of the FCC, Chairman Ajit Pai touted his early actions and vowed to keep slashing rules.
But he barely touched on his plan to eliminate the agency’s Net Neutrality rules.
The latest assault comes from FCC Chairman Ajit Pai, who wants to change how internet companies are regulated, a move that could prove disastrous for Net Neutrality.
Trump is attacking our communication rights on nearly every front. In its first 100 days, his administration has stripped away online privacy protections, expanded social media surveillance at the borders, gagged the press and threatened to destroy Net Neutrality.
The largest owner of local TV stations, Sinclair has a history of supporting Republican causes. But as Sinclair tries to grow, it is locking horns with Fox.
Numerous opinion pieces running in publications like <em>The Hill</em> and <em>Washington Examiner</em> share two things in common: praise for Federal Communications Commission Chairman Ajit Pai’s proposed rollback of Net Neutrality rules, and millions in undisclosed funding from the telecommunications industry for the writers’ organizations.
Here we go again. The Federal Communications Commission, now led by an anti-regulation ideologue appointed by President Trump, wants to gut the Net Neutrality rules that keep powerful broadband companies from calling the shots on the internet, at the expense of consumers.
It began as an academic subject with a wonky name — Network Neutrality.
But at its heart, the issue was simple: Internet service providers should treat all content equally.
A top U.S. court on Monday upheld the legality of federal rules protecting Net Neutrality, providing a much-needed boost to activists who are resisting efforts by Trump's top telecom regulator to dismantle the Obama-era FCC's policy