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Rep Louie Gohmert to FCC Chair: “You’re playing God with the Internet.”
In a recent House Judiciary Committee hearing on the FCC’s newly adopted rules on net neutrality, FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler pointed to the 1996 Telecom...
Will Net Neutrality Vote Make Approval of Comcast-TWC Merger More Likely?
Will the FCC’s vote to reclassify broadband as a public utility under Title II of the 1934 Communications Act make the agency’s approval of the...
Title II Supporters in Retreat: Broadband Not a Utility?
Proponents of heavy-handed Internet regulation (under Title II of the 1934 Communications Act) have long compared broadband service to public utilities, such as water, electricity,...
Lawyer Up! Net Neutrality In Court for the Third Time
Today, Alamo Broadband, Inc. and USTelecom each sued (in two separate federal appeals courts) to block the FCC from enforcing its February order, which reclassified...
The FCC is Illegally Rewriting the Communications Act
Today, the Federal Communications Commission released new net neutrality rules in a 400-page order that prompted lengthy, detailed dissents from Commissioners Pai and O’Rielly. “This...
Net Neutrality Could be Resolved by Congress: Berin Szoka Discusses Title II w/ Media Freedom
There’s long been a consensus on certain principles of net neutrality: Internet service providers (ISPs) should not block, throttle, and unreasonably discriminate against lawful content...