Category: net neutrality

Broadband Companies Paid for 8.5 Million Fake Comments Supporting Repeal of ‘Net Neutrality’: New York AG

The New York Attorney General’s office said in a Thursday report that a campaign funded by the broadband industry submitted millions of fake comments supporting the 2017 repeal of net neutrality. The report (pdf), headlined “How U.S. Companies & Partisans Hack Democracy to Undermine Your Voice,” concluded that nearly 18 million of the more than…


Broadband Companies Paid for 8.5 Million Fake Comments on Repeal of ‘Net Neutrality’: New York AG

The New York Attorney General’s office said in a Thursday report that a campaign funded by the broadband industry submitted millions of fake comments supporting the 2017 repeal of net neutrality. The report (pdf), headlined “How U.S. Companies & Partisans Hack Democracy to Undermine Your Voice,” concluded that nearly 18 million of the more than…


California Can Enforce Net Neutrality Law, Federal Judge Rules

A federal judge in California has ruled that California can enforce its net neutrality law, rejecting efforts from a group of internet service providers seeking to block the measure. The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) had issued nationwide net neutrality regulations in 2015 under the Obama administration, but later repealed the rules in 2017 under the Trump…


Digital Duplicity: The Social Media Purge Exposes Net Neutrality’s True Goal

Commentary For nearly two decades, Silicon Valley made net neutrality its highest policy priority. Under the banner of a “free and open” internet, Google, Facebook, and Twitter sought regulations to ensure the uninterrupted flow of information by treating every bit equally. Or so they said. Beginning on Jan. 8, these firms and others executed an…