What the net neutrality ruling means for you and meIs it the end of information being free? A harbinger of dark times for the internet? Or just a move that will make the net more like TV?doi:10.1016/S0262-4079(14)60229-3Aviva Rutkin...
The end of net neutrality should be a boon to your friendly neighborhood cable or telecom monopolist, but what will it mean for you? Target 1: Netflix The people have spoken. At this point Netflix and other services (but mainly Netflix) are the bulk of bandwidth. Cable companies have ...
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FCC Chairman Ajit Pai, a former Verizon attorney who was appointed to the agency by President Donald Trump, is expected to reveal plans tooverturn net neutrality this week, according to The Wall Street Journal. In a statement earlier this year, Pai described net neutrality rules as creating a ...
But this has shifted quickly in the last couple of years, even as the FCC has attempted to set and enforce rules requiring some aspects of net neutrality—rules that courts have largely rejected for a technicality. (The FCC has the right, one court said, but it has to ...
"Republicans callingfornet neutrality is novel, so it pays to take notice," wrote analysts at MoffettNathanson in a research note. "It is less surprising that an army of Democrats also have stepped forward to decry the FCC's order. As we noted a few weeks ago, if one squints hard enou...
Net neutrality opponents, including many ISPs, maintain that government legislation of the internet is an unnecessary barrier to innovation and economic growth. They also point out that consumers already have a choice of using a slower dial-up internet service or paying a premium price for faster ...
NB:This may not be a word-for-word transcript. What Is Net Neutrality? 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 ...
Learn how Net Neutrality means that ISPs should treat all data traveling over their networks equally, without blocking or throttling specific traffic.
Net neutrality is a policy that requires internet service providers (ISPs) to provide equal access to the internet, with no changes in speed. In the U.S., it was struck down by a federal appeals court in January 2025.