The Federal Communications Commission voted last week along party lines to move forward with Chairman Ajit Pai’s plan to roll back current Net Neutrality protections. Despite the claims of the agency head, many businesses would rather keep the current rules in place.
The FCC voted to begin dismantling Net Neutrality protections, but the rules aren't dead yet. Approving the Notice of Proposed Rulemaking only begins the process of trying to roll back the rules. But Ajit Pai and Net Neutrality opponents still have their work cut out for them.
Sinclair Broadcast Group has struck a deal with Tribune Media to buy dozens of local TV stations.
And what Fox News is for cable, Sinclair could become for broadcast: programming with a soupcon — or more — of conservative spin.
The next few months will be full of bitter dissent regarding the FCC’s Net Neutrality rules. This article debunks the arguments from the anti-open internet camp.
Undoing the Net Neutrality rules — which, for instance, block providers from favoring their own apps and services over those of competitors like Netflix — may be the biggest battle yet triggered by FCC Chairman Ajit Pai.
Voices for Internet Freedom, a coalition of advocacy organizations, hosted a public forum in Skid Row with Federal Communications Commissioner Mignon Clyburn. At the event members of low-income communities discussed the need for affordable phone and internet access.
Sinclair Broadcast Group's proposed acquisition of Tribune Media Company is inflaming criticism of the Federal Communications Commission, which helped pave the way for the deal by relaxing media-ownership restrictions.
The Federal Communications Commission (voted to start dismantling Obama-era Net Neutrality rules, but internet-rights campaigners are calling for an investigation into fraud allegations before the commission moves forward.
Last week, while pundits were debating whether crashing web servers at the Federal Communications Commission were hit by hackers or simply by a flood of public comments, FCC Commissioner Mignon Clyburn was on her way to a forum in Los Angeles. There she heard from advocate Sylvia Hernandez and others who are often left out of the Beltway's tech-policy narratives.