In July 2022, Senators Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.), Ron Wyden (D-Ore.), and Representative Doris Matsui (CA-06) introduced the Net Neutrality and Broadband Justice Act. This legislation would classify broadband internet access as a telecommunications service under Title II of the Communications ...
He believes that if net neutrality did not exist 10 or 15 years ago, we might never have heard of YouTube, Facebook, or any of the other innovators that created the internet landscape as we know it. “Do we really want to create a system in which the next YouTube is killed before...
Net neutrality (also network neutrality or Internet neutrality) is the principle that Internet service providers and governments should treat all data on the Internet equally, not discriminating or charging differently by user, content, site, platform, application, type of attached equipment, or mode ...
Con 1: Net neutrality regulations are unnecessary because the Internet developed amazingly well in their absence. Most large Internet companies including Google (1998), Facebook (2004), YouTube (2005), and Twitter (2006) were started and grew to success without net neutrality regulations. ...
online, new companies and technologies might never have the chance to grow. for example, had internet providers blocked or severely limited video streaming in the mid-2000s, we might not have netflix or youtube today. other advocates highlight the importance of net neutrality to free expression...
As it stands, the four FCC commissioners are split by party — two Democrats and two Republicans. Sohn represents the tiebreaker and one of the final hurdles to setting federal net neutrality rules back in motion. Subscribe to CNBC on YouTube. ...
WASHINGTON — Call it legal ping-pong, regulatory pinball or judicial rinse and repeat — it was called all of those and more — but a new decision out of a federal court here on the FCC’s latest set of net neutrality rules has ISPs and virtually everyone else calling for Congress to ...
zach gibson/bloomberg/getty images save save net neutrality—the idea that internet service providers should treat all traffic equally—might seem quaint during the covid-19 pandemic. internet traffic is surging, so why not tap the brakes on entertainment or porn to make sure people can access ...
Skip AdBy Cecilia Kang The New York Times WASHINGTON — A federal appeals court struck down the Federal Communications Commission’s landmark net neutrality rules on Thursday, ending a nearly two-decade effort to regulate broadband internet providers as utilities. The 6th U.S. Circuit Court of...
FCC Chairman Tom Wheelerconfirmedtoday that proposed rules to replace the net neutrality regulations struck down by a court decision are on track for an FCC vote on May 15. Wheeler didn't detail exactly what those rules would be, butThe Wall Street Journalsays it has a source who kno...