WASHINGTON — Free Press condemned the FCC for waging a war on the poor by moving forward with a proceeding to deny essential broadband and telephone subsidies to low-income people.
WASHINGTON — On Friday, Free Press voluntarily withdrew its “petition for review,” filed in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit. Free Press still plans to sue the FCC to overturn its decision.
The core question is what impact the deal will have. AT&T and Time Warner have argued that together they can offer content to people for less money.
The DoJ has argued the exact opposite.
The trade association representing major internet firms like Google, Facebook and Netflix is seeking to intervene in a host of lawsuits filed against the FCC after it repealed most of its Net Neutrality rules.
Net Neutrality is the number-one reason many rural Americans still lack broadband access — at least, that's what Federal Communications Commission Chairman Ajit Pai says.
The future of Facebook as an advertising platform was called into question in the wake of revelations that its data was harvested by Donald Trump’s political-ad firm in 2016.
Close observers of the tech industry say the public’s view of the tech industry has allowed the sector to operate relatively free of the scrutiny that other power centers experience.