Internet

Title II Is The Best Way To Protect The Internet. Period.

February 16, 2019 By Dana Floberg, Freepress.net Educate! FCC, Internet, Net Neutrality

Last week, Free Press VP of Strategy and Senior Counsel Jessica J. González testified in Congress about the importance of restoring real Net Neutrality protections and a strong legal framework for internet users’ rights. During the hearing, three of the Republicans representatives there (Bob Latta, Cathy McMorris Rodgers and Greg Walden) tried to upstage these arguments by introducing fake Net Neutrality bills. We haven’t seen the full text of all of these bills yet, but we know what they’ll do because they’re all dusted-off versions of earlier ISP-written bills. And we know what these members say: “Everyone wants Net Neutrality, we just disagree about how to do it!”

Net Neutrality’s Day In Court

February 5, 2019 By Ernesto Falcon, Elliot Harmon, Erica Portnoy, and Bennett Cyphers, Eff.org Resist! Courts, FCC, Internet, Net Neutrality

The Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit heard the case of Mozilla v. FCC today to determine whether the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is allowed to repeal its net neutrality rules and abandon its authority over the broadband industry. The case delved into many different legal and technical issues that reveal the extent the FCC is willing to stretch to abandon the Open Internet. On one side sat public interest advocates, local governments, and Internet companies large and small. On the other, the FCC’s legal team was joined by lawyers from the large ISPs arguing in favor of one of the most unpopular decisions in Internet policy history.

The Net Neutrality Argument That Will Be Made In Court

February 1, 2019 Andrew Wyrich, Dailydot.com Resist! FCC, Internet, Net Neutrality

A number of prominent tech companies and digital rights groups expressed confidence on Wednesday that their court battle against the Federal Communications Commission(FCC), where they are challenging its controversial net neutrality decision, will be successful. Oral arguments for Mozilla Corporation v. FCC, a case challenging the legality of the FCC’s net neutrality decision, are scheduled to be heard by the U.S. Court of Appeals District of Columbia Circuit on Friday. On Wednesday, several of the lead petitioners challenging the FCC’s decision—including Mozilla, Free Press, the Open Technology Institute, Public Knowledge—explained why they feel optimistic heading into Friday’s oral arguments.

Facebook’s Leaked Content Moderation Documents Reveal Serious Problems

December 29, 2018 Gaurav Shukla, Gadgets.ndtv.com Educate! Censorship, Digital, Facebook, Internet, Repression, Social Media

Facebook's thousands of content moderators worldwide rely on a bunch of unorganised PowerPoint presentations and Excel spreadsheets to decide what content to allow on the social network, revealed a report. These guidelines, which are used to monitor billions of posts every day, are apparently filled with numerous gaps, biases, and outright errors. The unnamed Facebook employee, who leaked these documents, reportedly feared that the social network was using too much power with too little oversight and making too many mistakes.

The Hardliners And The Cynics Fight To Use The Internet As A Weapon Against Cuba

December 11, 2018 Rosa Miriam Elizalde, Medium.com Educate! Cuba, Internet

The State Department’s Internet Task Force for Cuba, meeting for the second time since its first meeting in February, ended without agreement. The hardliners, who demand more money from the taxpayers in order to finish off the revolutionary government in any way possible, was confronted by the cynics, who want the same thing, but take out all moral criteria out and with the compensation of the market. From last Wednesday’s meeting in Washington, the indignation of the head of the governmental Office of Transmissions for Cuba of the United States, Tomás Regalado, has transcended.

Net Neutrality Supporters Win Big In The House

November 21, 2018 Staff, Freepress.net Resist! Electoral Politics, FCC, Internet, Net Neutrality

WASHINGTON — Net Neutrality supporters scored major victories in the House on Tuesday, with Democrats who supported the reversal of the Trump FCC’s 2017 anti-Net Neutrality ruling winning all 160 of their reelection races. 160 of the 176 Democratic representatives who signed on to the resolution of disapproval that would restore the open-internet rules were up for reelection yesterday. The other 16 members are either retiring or ran for other political offices. Rep. Mike Doyle (D–Pennsylvania) introduced the discharge petition in May, the day after the Senate passed a companion Congressional Review Act resolution introduced by Sen. Ed Markey (D–Massachusetts) with a bipartisan 52–47 vote.

Ajit Pai, Telecom Lobbyists Are Now Coordinating Their Lies In Perfect Symmetry

October 24, 2018 By Karl Bode, Techdirt.com Educate! Corruption, FCC, Internet, Lobbying, Net Neutrality, Telecommunications

So we've made it pretty clear by now that the FCC's entire justification for repealing net neutrality was based entirely on fluff and lobbyist nonsense. But because the Administrative Procedure Act requires that regulators actually provide hard data to justify massive reversals in policy, both the Ajit Pai FCC and his BFFs at Verizon, Comcast, and AT&T have clung tightly to one, completely false claim: that net neutrality harmed network investment. But as we've stated countless times, that's simply not true. That's not an opinion, it's based on SEC filings, earnings reports, and the on-the-record statements of nearly a dozen telecom industry CEOs. That undeniable fact hasn't really bothered the folks at US Telecom, the telecom industry's biggest lobbying and policy organization.

Internet Provider Groups Sue Vermont Over Net Neutrality Law

October 19, 2018 David Shepardson, Reuters.com Educate! Internet, Lawsuit, Legislation, Net Neutrality, Vermont

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Five industry groups representing major internet providers and cable companies filed suit on Thursday seeking to block a Vermont law barring companies that do not abide by net neutrality rules from receiving state contracts. An AT&T logo is pictured in Pasadena, California, U.S., January 24, 2018. REUTERS/Mario Anzuoni The lawsuit was filed in U.S. District Court in Vermont by groups representing major providers like AT&T Inc (T.N), Comcast Corp (CMCSA.O) and Verizon Communications Inc (VZ.N). It followed a lawsuit by four of the groups earlier this month challenging a much broader California law mandating providers abide by net neutrality rules.

New York Attorney General Subpoenas Industry Groups, Lobbyists Over Fake Net Neutrality Comments

October 18, 2018 By Tom McKay, Gizmodo.com Resist! FCC, Internet, Net Neutrality, New York (NY)

The New York Attorney General’s office has subpoenaed “more than a dozen telecommunications trade groups, lobbying contractors and Washington advocacy organizations,” the New York Times reported on Tuesday, seeking to determine whether they were behind the flood of fake public comments submitted before the Federal Communication Commission’s decision to revoke net neutrality rules last year. Barbara Underwood, who became the state’s attorney general earlier this year after predecessor Eric Schneiderman resigned in disgrace, wants to see whether industry groups were behind a huge effort to pollute the 22 million letters filed to the FCC’s electronic comment filing system with fraudulent submissions.

#NetNeutrality: Turns Out 99.7 Percent Of Unique FCC Comments Wanted To Keep The Internet Open

October 17, 2018 By Monique Judge, Theroot.com Educate! FCC, Internet, Net Neutrality

As the Federal Communications Commission prepared to repeal the laws of net neutrality last year, 22 million comments were left on its website expressing arguments either for or against keeping the open internet protected and in place. A new report says that 99.7 percent of the unique comments left on the agency’s site were pro-net neutrality. “Filtering Out the Bots: What Americans Actually Told the FCC about Net Neutrality Repeal” is a study completed by Ryan Singel—a Media and Strategy Fellow at Stanford Law School’s Center for Internet and Society—in which he took a “state-by-state, district-by-district look at linguistically unique comments fled to the FCC in the 2017 repeal proceedings.”

The Root Of The Internet’s Disrepute: Online Advertising!

October 8, 2018 Staff, Nader.org Educate! Capitalism, Internet, Media

In all the mounting media coverage of problems with the Internet, such as invasion of privacy, vulnerability to hacking, political manipulation, and user addiction, there is one constant: online advertising. Online advertising is the lifeblood of Google, Facebook, and many other Internet enterprises that profit by providing personal data to various vendors. Moreover, the move of tens of billions of dollars from conventional print and broadcast media continues, with devastating impacts, especially on print newspapers and magazines. But does online advertising work for consumers? The Internet was once considered a less commercial medium. But today consumers are inundated with targeted ads, reviews, comments, friends’ reactions, and other digital data.

One Small Step For The Web

September 30, 2018 Tim Berners-Lee, Medium.com. Create! Internet, Net Neutrality, Privacy

I’ve always believed the web is for everyone. That’s why I and others fight fiercely to protect it. The changes we’ve managed to bring have created a better and more connected world. But for all the good we’ve achieved, the web has evolved into an engine of inequity and division; swayed by powerful forces who use it for their own agendas. Today, I believe we’ve reached a critical tipping point, and that powerful change for the better is possible — and necessary. This is why I have, over recent years, been working with a few people at MIT and elsewhere to develop Solid, an open-source project to restore the power and agency of individuals on the web.

New York Times Sues FCC For Net Neutrality Records

September 21, 2018 Jon Reid, Bna.com Resist! FCC, Internet, Net Neutrality, New York Times (NYT)

The New York Times Co. is suing the Federal Communications Commission for records the newspaper alleges may reveal possible Russian government interference in a public comment period before the commission rolled back Obama-era net neutrality rules. The plaintiffs, including Times reporter Nicholas Confessore and investigations editor Gabriel Dance, filed in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York Sept. 20 under the Freedom of Information Act, seeking to compel the commission to hand over data.

What Is The FCC Hiding? Court Orders Agency To Release Info About Who Submitted Fake Comments During Net Neutrality Repeal

September 20, 2018 Staff, Fightforthefuture.org Educate! Courts, FCC, Internet

Reports today show that a DC District Court judge has ordered the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to disclose previously-unreleased information that will assist the public in understanding how millions of fake comments were submitted to the FCC using stolen names and addresses during the agency’s 2017 proceeding to repeal net neutrality. Digital rights group Fight for the Future, who was among the first to launch an investigation into the fake comments and have long called for a full investigation into the fake comments submitted onto the agency’s net neutrality docket, welcomes the court’s decision as a positive step forward for those who had their names fraudulently placed onto the FCC’s record.

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