FCC Anti-Net Neutrality Plan Sparks All Out Comment War, Bots Included
Rarely do the public comments made on a federal agency website garner so many headlines, but the Federal Communications Commission's (FCC) plan to gut net neutrality protections has sparked an all-out...
View ArticleSix Things Trump’s FCC Chairman Doesn’t Want You to Know About Net Neutrality
Under its Trump-annointed chairman, Ajit Pai, the Federal Communications Commission decided last Thursday to revisit its net neutrality ruling. The agency has reopened a docket for public comments on...
View ArticleFormer Commish Michael Copps: ‘Maybe the Worst FCC I’ve Ever Seen’
In just a few short months, the Trump wrecking ball has pounded away at rules and regulations in virtually every government agency. The men and women the president has appointed to the Cabinet and to...
View ArticleOn Wednesday, July 12, Everyone Can Stand Up for Net Neutrality
Just over two years after the Federal Communications Commission, under President Obama, approved rules protecting a free and open internet accessible to all, net neutrality is once again under fire....
View ArticleThis Small Regulation Shows Us How the Economy Could Work for Everybody
We recently marked the seventh anniversary of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, President Obama’s response to the 2008 financial crisis. President Trump and the Republicans...
View ArticleThe Future of The Internet is Up for Grabs — Theoretically
The Trump administration is weighing one of the most significant rulings on how the internet will operate in the future — broadly affecting both the US economy and how Americans get crucial information...
View ArticleTrump’s Secret Weapon Against a Free Press
Journalists in Manila had very little time to cover Monday’s meeting between President Donald Trump and his Philippine counterpart Rodrigo Duterte. But it was enough to witness one aspect of the...
View ArticleIf Trump’s FCC Repeals Net Neutrality, Elites Will Rule the Internet — and...
Net neutrality is the First Amendment of the Internet. It guarantees that speech is equal on the network of networks, and net-neutrality protections assure that the essential democratic discourse on...
View ArticleThe Swamp Fighters: Craig Aaron
Craig Aaron took what he learned about freedom of the press at journalism school and built a career and movement around it — embodied in the organization Free Press. He’s the one championing First...
View ArticleTrump’s FCC Wants to Kill a Free and Open Internet
Every time we think the battle to protect the internet is won, the forces of greed, power and control come right back at us. The crucial FCC vote to reverse the net neutrality rules is Thursday, Dec....
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