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New York Attorney General Subpoenas Industry Groups, Lobbyists Over Fake Net Neutrality Comments
The New York Attorney General’s office has subpoenaed “more than a dozen telecommunications trade groups, lobbying contractors and Washington advocacy organisations,” the New York Times reported on Tuesday, seeking to determine whether they were behind the flood of fake public comments submitted before the Federal Communication Commission’s decision to revoke net neutrality rules last year.
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FCC Refuses To Back Down From Plan To Strip Phone And Internet Subsidies For First Nations Americans
Federal Communications Commission Chairman Ajit Pai speaks to members of the media after a commission meeting December 14, 2017 in Washington, DC. Late last year, the Federal Communications Commission under Ajit Pai voted to make it harder for First Nations Americans to receive subsidies for broadband internet service. Despite legal challenges, the commission decided this…
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The FCC’s Order Killing Net Neutrality Hasn’t Actually Gone Into Effect Yet
The US Federal Communications Commission’s revocation of Barack Obama-era net neutrality rules (misleadingly billed as Restoring Internet Freedom Order) starts going into effect today. But net neutrality isn’t dead – yet.
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Don’t Fall For Marsha Blackburn’s ‘Open Internet Preservation Act’
Last week, the Republican-dominated Federal Communications Commission and its wildly unpopular decision to repeal Barack Obama-era open internet guidelines in the US, potentially opening the door for internet service providers to start blocking or throttling anyone on the web they want or hitting them up for extortionate fees. With the FCC abrogating most of its own…