Net Neutrality Is Far From Necessary
Remember, the "open internet" that regulatory rules purportedly preserve emerged from a world without net neutrality rules.
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Joe Biden's Executive Order on 'Promoting Competition' Covers Everything From Farmers Markets to Net Neutrality
Plus: Treating social media platforms as common carriers, Norway criminalizes sneaky influencer editing, and more...
Tim Wu, Biden's New Tech Guru, Is Deeply Wrong About What Makes the Internet Great
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.
What Tech Policies Should We Expect from the Biden Administration?
Some trends to look for over the next four years
Ajit Pai on What the FCC Has Done Right
Pai has focused on taking a market-based approach to regulating the nation's always-evolving telecommunications industry, with great success.
What Is Dexamethasone? A Potentially Life-Saving Treatment for Seriously Ill COVID-19 Patients
Plus: The U.S. Supreme Court stops an execution at the last minute, a senator argues that you shouldn't get HBO GO for free, and more...
Federal Court Upholds FCC Decision to Roll Back Obama-Era Net Neutrality Rules
Deregulation didn't end the internet as we know it.
D.C. Circuit Upholds FCC Decision to Rescind "Net Neutrality" (But Rejects FCC Attempt to Preempt Conflicting State Law)
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
The Internet Doesn't Need Saving
But that might not stop House Democrats from Net Neutrality-related histrionics.
Feds Used a Secret Database to Track Journalists Covering the Migrant Caravan: Reason Roundup
Plus: Facebook says it's pivoting to privacy, and congressional Democrats want to "save the internet."
More Americans Have High-Speed Internet Access Than Ever
Preliminary FCC report claims the number of Americans with high-speed connections grew by 20 percent in 2017.
Silicon Valley May Rue the Day it Called for Government Intervention Against Microsoft
Facebook, Google, Apple, and others are now facing the sort of regulatory and antitrust animus once leveled at Bill Gates' company.
Everybody Wants To Regulate the Internet Except Ajit Pai: Podcast
One year after Net Neutrality, connection speed is up, the discrimination critics feared is non-existent, and the debate about Internet regulation is abysmal.
One Year Ago Today, the FCC Killed the Internet
But if you're reading this, you know that's not true.
Are You Ready for the 'Inevitable' Clampdown on Tech and the Media?
When Apple's CEO Tim Cook says "the free market is not working," bad things are coming.
California Imposed Its Own 'Net Neutrality' Law. The Feds Aren't Happy About It.
The Justice Department is suing to stop the state's restrictive new internet law.
California Enacts State Net Neutrality Rules, Gets Sued Immediately
California's new law is a legal mess.
California Legislature Passes Net Neutrality, but Will Gov. Jerry Brown Sign It?
States are now the main battleground in regulating internet and social-media giants.
California Democrats Want to Bring Back Net Neutrality
"Ultimately, all this bill will succeed in doing is opening our state to legal challenges and costly litigation."
Activists Attempt Last-Minute Effort to Save Net Neutrality
But their chances of getting the FCC repeal overturned remain slim.
Senate Votes to Halt Net Neutrality Repeal
Today's vote is a mostly symbolic victory for supporters of the Obama-era internet regulations.
In Push to Legislate Net Neutrality, Chuck Schumer Invokes Bad Traffic Metaphor
"Let the free market prevail," says the Senate minority leader. "We don't do that for highways." Which explains traffic jams and failing infrastructure...
Net Neutrality Is Officially Dead. That's a Victory for Free Speech.
The policy was "a solution that won't work to a problem that doesn't exist."
Live Debate: Nick Gillespie Argues Net Neutrality at Intelligence Squared!
In Chicago, Reason editor at large squares off against former FCC head Tom Wheeler in Oxford-style debate.
Washington Governor Signs Legally Dubious Net Neutrality Bill
The FCC's December order repealing net neutrality preempted sates from reimposing regulations.
Making the Fairness Doctrine Great Again
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.
Having Failed at Making Edible Burgers, Burger King Tries To Explain Net Neutrality
The second-rate fast-food giant gets basic internet protocols wrong.
Democrats' Latest Plan to Save Net Neutrality Is All Bark, No Bite
There is roughly a zero percent chance Democrats will succeed in blocking net neutrality repeal through the Congressional Review Act.
Lack of Net Neutrality Can't Stop the FCC's 'Harlem Shake' Video, But Copyright Law Might!
Onerous IP laws threaten a free and open internet in a way deregulation never can.
The FCC Just Voted to Roll Back Obama-Era Net Neutrality Rules
New rules would require internet providers to be transparent about their services.
Government Is the Cause of—Not the Solution to—Online Censorship
As people worry about the net neutrality vote, public officials threaten our rights to free speech.
Ron Swanson Slams Fan Ajit Pai Over 'Duplicitous Handling of the Net Neutrality Issue'
But would TV's favorite libertarian really favor federal regulation of the Internet?
No, the FCC Isn't 'Overturning Net Neutrality'
Set aside the Chicken Little fears about the internet dying.
Nick Gillespie Debates Net Neutrality with Tom Wheeler on NPR
Reason.com's editor in chief hashes it out with the FCC Chairman who passed net neutrality.
Liberals Are Freaking Out About Net Neutrality Because They Don't Understand Capitalism: Podcast
Nick Gillespie, Katherine Mangu-Ward, Peter Suderman and Matt Welch discuss sex scandals and net neutrality.
Why Net Neutrality Was Mistaken From the Beginning (AOL Edition)
It turns out that Tom Wheeler, the FCC head who imposed the rules, doesn't know what he's talking about.
Pro–Net Neutrality Graphic Makes Argument Against Net Neutrality
Do net neutrality advocates fear consumer choice?
FCC Head Ajit Pai: Killing Net Neutrality Will Set the Internet Free
Promises that "we're going to see an explosion in the kinds of connectivity and the depth of that connectivity" like never before.
Ajit Pai: 'We Are Returning to the Original Classification of the Internet'
In a Fifth Column interview, FCC chair announces the beginning of the end of Title II regulatory classification of Internet companies, frets about the culture of free speech, and calls social-media regulation "a dangerous road to cross."
Net Neutrality Supporters Should Actually Hate the Regulations They're Endorsing
The Obama-era "Open Internet Order" discourages a free internet.
Everyone Should Be Getting Wikipedia for Free
Confusion over net neutrality rules has internet providers too scared to offer freebies, even though it's legal.
How Deregulation Gave Us FM Radio, HBO, and the iPhone
The FCC is designed to protect incumbents, enrich politicians, and screw consumers, says economist Thomas Hazlett.
Net Neutrality Nixed: Why John Oliver Is Wrong
The internet did just fine before bureaucrats started micromanaging it.
FCC Vote Isn't the End of Net Neutrality, But It's a Good First Step
This isn't about whether the internet will be free and open. It's about how much power the FCC should have.
The Fear-Based Campaign to Control the Net
A transparent attempt to establish government control over the rare place where freedom is still highly regarded.