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California Enacts New Net Neutrality Law, Justice Department Sues to Strike it Down, Full Text of Justice and CA Sen. Scott Wiener’s Statement

California governor Jerry Brown signed a new California net neutrality law into law yesterday (yes, on a Sunday, September 30th), and on that same Sunday, hours later, the Department of Justice filed a lawsuit against California’s new net neutrality law, saying that it “unlawfully imposes burdens on the Federal Government’s deregulatory approach to the Internet.”

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As Battle Over Net Neutrality Intensifies Here’s What You Need to Know

As the frenzy over the FCC’s December 14, 2017 vote on whether to repeal the Open Internet Order (OIO), which is being equated to the end of Net Neutrality, reaches a fevered pitch, here’s what the average Internet user needs to know. In our view, the furor over the possible (some say inevitable) repeal is akin to the Y2K hysteria, and the actual outcome probably just as anticlimactic. The sky is not going to fall.

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Federal Court Rejects Net Neutrality

A Federal court this week rejected network neutrality by striking down a series of government rules and regulations designed to make sure that Internet service providers could not give some Internet services bandwidth priority, while degrading that of other services. The rules had been upheld by an FCC ruling, which the court overturned.

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What’s the Big Deal About Google, Verizon, and Net Neutrality? We Explain.

Tech news and forums this week have been overrun by chatter about the legislative proposal for net neutrality that Verizon and Google jointly released on Monday. The proposal, which both Google and Verizon posted to their blogs at 1:38 p.m. EST and 1:47 p.m. EST, respectively, was, they say, intended to spark discussion, and spark discussion it did. If your head is spinning with this week’s discussions of network neutrality, wireline, wireless, a private Internet, and “differentiated online services”, read on.

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Three New Competing Net Neutrality Bills Introduced in DC by Markey, Eshoo, Stevens and Wyden

Dueling Net Neutrality bills have been introduced in Washington DC this week, one by Democratic House representatives Markey, Eshoo, Inslee and Boucher, the other by Republican Senator Ted Stevens and Democrat Senator Daniel Inouye. Oh yes, and another one by Senator Wyden.

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Net Neutrality Clause Shot Down by Feds

Efforts to legislate net neutrality were shot down today, with the House Commerce Committee rejecting a rider clause to the pending “Communications Opportunity, Promotion and Efficiency (COPE) Act of 2006”, and voting 42-12 to pass the COPE act absent the net neutrality clause.

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An Open Letter to ISPs re: Net Neutrality

Net neutrality is a hot topic right now. Here’s what one Internet business owner and customer has to say about it.

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“Net Neutrality” Explained

What is “net neutrality”? We’ve been getting a lot of questions asking us to explain what this new term, “net neutrality” means. So we will. It all started with the introduction of the “Internet Nondiscrimination Act of 2006”.

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The Future of Internet Regulation: What Users Need to Know

In the ever-evolving world of the internet, there’s always something new just around the digital corner. Right now, it’s the buzz about internet regulation changes. You might think, “Regulations? Yawn!” But wait, these updates could really shake up how we surf, share, and experience the web. Let’s unwrap this, shall we?

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The Spinning Disks of Internet Slowdown Day Explained

If you go just about anywhere online today, September 10th, 2014, you will find yourself encountering all sorts of banners and graphics of spinning disks (or spinning discs, take your pick), that exhort you to affix your name to a petition to support net neutrality.

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Towards a Nanny Internet

Network neutrality, laws requiring dating sites to perform background checks and ISPs to rat out their users, laws banning anonymous posting, and cyber bullying legislation. Is it all part of a move towards a nanny Internet?

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Is Your ISP Interfering with Your Downloading and Bandwith Use? Ask Switzerland and the EFF

Is your ISP interfering with your downloading and your bandwidth? If you are legitimately using a torrent service, is your ISP interfering with your connections by doing some peer-to-peer busting? Or, maybe, is your ISP is limiting or even disconnecting your VoIP calls, such as if you use Vonage, or even Skype? How would you know? By using Switzerland, the new Net Neutrality-sniffing program from the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF).

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FCC Investigating CenturyLink Outage – Says “Unacceptable”

Yesterday we reported on the nationwide CenturyLink outage – an outage which is still going on in many parts of the country, more than 24 hours later. We also reported that as a result of this outage, many 911 emergency services were and are unreachable. Now the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is investigating the CenturyLink outage, calling the breadth and duration of it “unacceptable”.

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Verizon Substituting Its Own Search Engine – Overriding Its Own Users Search Engine Preferences

Verizon Wireless is subsituting its own search engine – complete with ads which earn revenue for Verizon – even overriding their users’ own preferences – whenever a user of Verizon’s fiber optic Internet service (FiOS) mistypes a domain name. The “feature”, as Verizon refers to it, is known as Verizon’s “Advanced Web Search” (although their technical name for it, which we just love, is “DNS Assistance”).

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Is Wikipedia Down? Maybe – But it May Be On Purpose

If you are wondering whether Wikipedia is down – and you find yourself wondering this on January 18, 2012, then Wikipedia may indeed be down, but it is a planned Wikipedia blackout, to protest SOPA (even though it has been killed) and PIPA (which will hopefully suffer the same fate).