Sixth Circuit Puts Net Neutrality Rule on Ice
A three-judge panel concludes the rule's challenger are likely to succeed on the merits.
A three-judge panel concludes the rule's challenger are likely to succeed on the merits.
Growth of regulation slowed under former President Trump, but it still increased.
Net neutrality rules have been instituted and repealed multiple times in the past 15 years, and yet internet use has thrived in each scenario.
FCC Chair Jessica Rosenworcel has initiated a new rulemaking that would enact what are largely the same net neutrality rules tried back in 2016.
After five years without net neutrality rules, the fix for a problem that doesn’t exist is back.
While Sohn’s record raises ethics and judgment questions, some attacks against her lacked merit.
Attempts to reclassify ISPs as common carriers are unsupported by law.
Net neutrality is an unnecessary and failed policy.
Sohn, whose nomination could go before the Senate for a final vote within the coming weeks, is stuck in the past.
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Remember, the "open internet" that regulatory rules purportedly preserve emerged from a world without net neutrality rules.
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In many professional arenas, Wu's swings and misses would have consequences. In Wu's case, it landed him an advisory role in the Biden administration.
Some trends to look for over the next four years
Pai has focused on taking a market-based approach to regulating the nation's always-evolving telecommunications industry, with great success.
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Deregulation didn't end the internet as we know it.
In a lengthy opinion, a divided three-judge panel turns away most of the legal challenges to the Federal Communications Commission's "Restoring Internet Freedom" Order
But that might not stop House Democrats from Net Neutrality-related histrionics.
Plus: Facebook says it's pivoting to privacy, and congressional Democrats want to "save the internet."
Preliminary FCC report claims the number of Americans with high-speed connections grew by 20 percent in 2017.
Facebook, Google, Apple, and others are now facing the sort of regulatory and antitrust animus once leveled at Bill Gates' company.
One year after Net Neutrality, connection speed is up, the discrimination critics feared is non-existent, and the debate about Internet regulation is abysmal.
But if you're reading this, you know that's not true.
When Apple's CEO Tim Cook says "the free market is not working," bad things are coming.
The Justice Department is suing to stop the state's restrictive new internet law.
California's new law is a legal mess.
States are now the main battleground in regulating internet and social-media giants.
"Ultimately, all this bill will succeed in doing is opening our state to legal challenges and costly litigation."
But their chances of getting the FCC repeal overturned remain slim.
Today's vote is a mostly symbolic victory for supporters of the Obama-era internet regulations.
"Let the free market prevail," says the Senate minority leader. "We don't do that for highways." Which explains traffic jams and failing infrastructure...
The policy was "a solution that won't work to a problem that doesn't exist."
In Chicago, Reason editor at large squares off against former FCC head Tom Wheeler in Oxford-style debate.
The FCC's December order repealing net neutrality preempted sates from reimposing regulations.
Media bias has been far less harmful than media regulation bias. That can seal off whole markets and make everyone who's left too nervous to speak freely.
The second-rate fast-food giant gets basic internet protocols wrong.
There is roughly a zero percent chance Democrats will succeed in blocking net neutrality repeal through the Congressional Review Act.
Onerous IP laws threaten a free and open internet in a way deregulation never can.
New rules would require internet providers to be transparent about their services.
As people worry about the net neutrality vote, public officials threaten our rights to free speech.
But would TV's favorite libertarian really favor federal regulation of the Internet?
Set aside the Chicken Little fears about the internet dying.
Reason.com's editor in chief hashes it out with the FCC Chairman who passed net neutrality.
Nick Gillespie, Katherine Mangu-Ward, Peter Suderman and Matt Welch discuss sex scandals and net neutrality.
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