DOJ sues California over net neutrality law
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The Hill ^
| 09/30/18 | EMILY BIRNBAUM
The Department of Justice (DOJ) on Sunday night sued California over its new new neutrality law, a little over an hour after Gov. Jerry Brown (D) signed the bill. The
lawsuit claims the California bill is "unlawful and anti-consumer" because it goes against the federal government's "deregulatory approach to the Internet." The bill signed by Brown (D) is the country's strictest net neutrality bill. The new California legislation bars internet service providers from slowing down website speeds, blocking access to certain websites and charging extra for large websites such as Netflix and Facebook. Attorney General Jeff Sessions in a statement...
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Verizon's Wireless 5G Home High-Speed Internet Just Destroyed The Case For 'Net Neutrality'
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IBD ^
| 09/14/2018
Verizon started letting people sign up for its new wireless 5G Home high-speed internet service this week. It
doesn't just mark the start of the next internet revolution. It obliterates the case for net-neutrality regulations. On Tuesday, Verizon said that people can start signing up now for its 5G Home, with service starting on Oct. 1 in Houston, Indianapolis, Los Angeles and Sacramento, Calif. Speeds will, the company says, be as fast as 1 Gbps, which is about as fast as Verizon's FIOS gets. It's more than 10 times faster than what the average home gets today. What's different about...
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What Is Net Neutrality? (PragerU)
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Prager University ^
| 9-10-2018 | Jon Gabriel
Transcript: Net Neutrality means that the government will--one day--control the internet. "Wait
a second!" I can you hear you saying. "That sounds bad." But almost everyone you know says that Net Neutrality is good. Doesn't "neutral" mean that no one is picking winners and losers, that everyone is equal? Maybe according to the dictionary, but not according to the people behind the Net Neutrality movement. For them, "neutral" means the government regulates the internet like a public utility--and that means bureaucrats making key decisions about how the internet is run. And that's exactly what happened in 2015. The Federal Communications...
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California Lawmakers Pass Net Neutrality Bill
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NPR ^
| September 2, 2018 | James Douubek
Lawmakers in California are sending legislation to Gov. Jerry Brown that would put net neutrality regulations into state law. California's
Senate approved the measure, called SB 822, by 27-12 Friday, a day after colleagues in the Assembly approved it 61-18. The Democratic governor, Jerry Brown, hasn't said if he will sign it. He has until the end of September. "We passed the strongest net neutrality standards in the nation," San Francisco Democrat Scott Wiener, who co-wrote the bill, said in a statement. "This is about a level playing field and an Internet where we as individuals get to decide where...
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Net Neutrality Advocates Unintentionally ‘Made the Case’ for Regulating Google, Facebook
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Breitbart ^
| Aug 31, 2018 | Sean Moran
Investor’s Business Daily charged in an editorial on Thursday that net neutrality advocates unintentionally “made the case” for regulating Google and Facebook. This week a coalition of large tech giants, including Google, Facebook, and Twitter, urged a U.S. appeals court to challenge the Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC) repeal of the agency’s 2015
net neutrality rule. The editorial board found regarding the agency’s Obama-era net neutrality, “Those 2015 rules were supposed to protect the ‘free and open’ internet by forbidding ISPs from, as the filing puts it, ‘engaging in discriminatory practices that limit consumer choice, competition, and innovation online.'” The business...
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California State Assembly Passes Nation’s Toughest Net Neutrality Law
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Variety ^
| Aug. 30, 2018 | Ted Johnson
A net neutrality bill that would prohibit internet providers from a host of discriminatory practices cleared the California Assembly on Thursday, setting up a potential showdown with the Trump administration over the rules of the road for the internet. The
legislation, which passed in a 59-18 vote, will now go to the Senate, where a vote is expected next week. It would then go to Governor Jerry Brown. California is also the largest state to pass net neutrality legislation in response to the Republican-led FCC’s move late last year to dismantle many of the existing rules. Democrats have seized on...
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Man charged with threatening to kill FCC chairman's family over net neutrality
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cnn ^
| 6:46 PM ET, Fri June 29, 2018 | Clare Foran
A man was arrested in Los Angeles on Friday on charges of threatening to murder the family of Federal Communications Commission Chairman Ajit Pai, according to the Justice Department. The department alleged in a news release that 33-year-old Markara Man threatened the FCC chairman's family because he was "angry" about the repeal
of net neutrality regulations and hoped to "scare" the chairman. In court documents filed with the US District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, a police officer with the Arlington County Police Department said there is probable cause to believe that Man sent a series of emails...
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David Hogg suggests net neutrality repeal part of conspiracy to suppress vote
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Washington Times ^
| June 12, 2018 | Victor Morton
Gun-control activist David Hogg took to Twitter on Tuesday to spread a conspiracy theory about the end of so-called “net neutrality.” He
stated that the companies that provide internet services and “the politicians” will conspire against websites that help register voters. “Just wait till ISPs start collaborating with the politicians to slow down vote registration websites to suppress peoples right to vote. The survival of #NetNeutrality is up to you this November,” he wrote.
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Netflix CEO bundles money for Obama, Netflix gets net neutrality, Obamas get huge contract
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American Thinker ^
| June 1,2018 | Jack Hellner
So now here is a summary of the Netflix-Obama relationship: Netflix CEO raises large amounts of money for Obama in 2012 campaign; Netflix lobbies and gets net neutrality; and then, around 16 months after Obama leaves office, the Obamas get a contract worth $50 million even though they have no experience providing
content. Since Obama, Netflix, and others are so interested in equality, I am sure they will be glad to list all other similar contracts to the Obama's with other men, women, blacks, Hispanics, LGBTQ members, and others. They should highlight the contracts with other people with no experience....
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Net Neutrality is a Fancy Term for Internet Socialism
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Townhall.com ^
| May 18, 2018 | Marina Medvin
Don’t be fooled by the terminology. Net
neutrality isn’t a tech term that will be hard for you to comprehend. You will get it in an instant, I promise. It’s the same old socialism, just rebranded to make it tech-trendy.There’s nothing neutral about net neutrality. It simply means everyone pays more, for things they need and don’t need, all indiscriminately, like taxes. Net neutrality is just internet socialism. People who originally fought for net neutrality were afraid of “unregulated capitalism.†Red flags all over the place. Why else did you think Democrats wanted it so badly? Senate Democrats just voted to keep their...
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Senate Votes Today To Reverse The Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC) Net Neutrality Repeal
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IWB ^
| Ruby Henley
Today, May 16, is a grave day in our battle for the Internet, as it is the last ditch effort to save Net Neutrality. The Senate will vote to reverse the Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC) net neutrality repeal. Odds
are, with Republican opposition, Congress won’t do it, but it’s the last, best shot we have of restoring net neutrality this year. The FCC published the final notice of the repeal in the Federal Register in February. Net neutrality is now scheduled to end on June 11. By using the Congressional Review Act (CRA), Congress can overturn the FCC’s rulings by...
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Senate votes to save net neutrality rules
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The Hill ^
| 05/16/18 03:47 PM EDT | HARPER NEIDIG
The Senate on Wednesday voted to reinstate the FCC's net neutrality rules, passing a bill that has little chance of advancing in the House but offers net neutrality supporters and Democrats a political rallying point for the midterm elections.
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The fight over net neutrality returns as supporters launch long-shot bid to resurrect the rules
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Los Angeles Time ^
| May 08, 2018 | 2:35 PM | Jim Puzzanghera
Democrats and other supporters of the controversial internet traffic regulations are seeking to turn the tables on Republican opponents by using a legislative tactic, popularized recently by the GOP, to resurrect the rules the Federal Communications Commission struck down last year. ... Democrats are using the maneuver to keep the issue alive
heading into this fall's elections, which will determine control of the House and Senate, said Daniel Lyons, an associate professor at Boston College Law School who specializes in telecommunications and internet legal matters. "It keeps the issue in the headlines, and it forces some members of Congress to...
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Net neutrality is all but dead. Here's what happens now.
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https://mashable.com/ ^
| 4/23/18 | MJ FRANKLIN
Everyone take a moment of silence please — the free and open internet is all but dead. In
December 2017 the FCC, under chairman Ajit Pai, voted to repeal net neutrality, signaling the end of the open internet as we know it. The decision was controversial at the time, with everyone from Alyssa Milano to Reddit calling out the FCC in the lead-up to the vote, but the the vote was just the first step toward repeal. To enact the change, the FCC would have to officially list the ruling and provide a timeline for it. That listing came in...
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Net Neutrality Won't Disappear on Monday — Here's Why
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Yahoo ^
| 4/21/18 | Mary von Aue
Parts of the Federal Communication Commission’s repeal of net neutrality is slated to take effect on April 23, causing worry among internet users who fear the worst from their internet service providers. However,
many experts believe there won’t be immediate changes come Monday, but that ISPs will wait until users aren’t paying attention to make their move. In December, the Republican-led FCC repealed net neutrality protections that were first set up under the Obama Administration. The repeal did away with rules that inhibited ISPs from slowing down access or prioritizing their own content, and quickly became a point of contention...
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Montana Pushes Back On FCC Ruling To Enforce Net Neutrality
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NPR ^
| January 27, 2018
...in December, the FCC rolled back Obama-era legislation aimed at regulating Internet service providers, meaning providers don't have to treat all online sites equally. ...On
Monday, Montana Governor Steve Bullock went a step further and became the first state official to sign an executive order imposing net neutrality in Montana.... ...Governor Bullock is here with me now to talk more... ...tell us about your thought process in deciding to issue this executive order? And I'd particularly like to know why you think this is an important issue... BULLOCK: Well, I think it's an important issue for Montana and, indeed, our...
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New Jersey governor signs net neutrality order
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thehill ^
New Jersey on Monday became the latest state to implement its own net neutrality rules following the Federal Communications Commission’s repeal of the Obama-era consumer protections. Gov.
Phil Murphy (D) signed an executive order prohibiting all internet service providers that do business with the state from blocking, throttling or favoring web content. “We may not agree with everything we see online, but that does not give us a justifiable reason to block the free, uninterrupted, and indiscriminate flow of information,” Murphy said in a statement. “And, it certainly doesn’t give certain companies or individuals a right to pay their way...
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LePage dashes off unhelpful response to student’s concerns about loss of net neutrality
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PressHerald.com ^
| 1/2/2018 | Susan Mustapich
LINCOLNVILLE — A high school student who wrote to Gov. Paul LePage because she was concerned about the loss of net neutrality received a handwritten response from the governor last week in which he told her to “pick up a book and read!” In
the month leading up to the recent vote by the Federal Communications Commission to repeal net neutrality regulations, Camden Hills Regional High School sophomore Hope Osgood learned about the issue and how junking the longtime principle that all web traffic be treated equally could affect consumers’ internet access. While browsing social media, she found an application...
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JW Pres. Tom Fitton on Abedin/Weiner Docs, Net Neutrality Battle, & Corruption w/ DOJ/FBI/Mueller
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Judicial Watch ^
| 12/30/17 | Tom Finton
Judicial Watch President discuss the multiple scandals of 2017.
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Sharyl Attkisson Roasts Lib Narrative — Takes Out Net Neutrality, Tax Bill in One Blow [trunc]
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IJR ^
| Dec 23, 2917 | VIRGINIA KRUTA
Full article title: Sharyl Attkisson Roasts Liberal Narrative — Takes Out Net Neutrality, Tax Bill, and Climate Change in One Blow Journalist Sharyl Attkisson is pretty well known for — well — poking the bear. But
on Friday, she kicked off the Christmas holiday weekend with a picture of one. She tweeted a photo of a polar bear with the following caption:Merry Christmas from Santa's neck of the woods. Well, from one pole. https://t.co/g7tNjnRBdV — Sharyl Attkisson (@SharylAttkisson) December 22, 2017It wasn't long before politics entered the picture:The MSM told me polar bears were all dead. — Michael M. (@unclemike741776)...
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