Net Neutrality and the Open Internet

Recent U.S. Senate and FCC activity favors large Internet companies at the expense of their customers

Under new chair Ajit Pai the agency would likely to reverse its Open Internet Order—a regulation expected to become less relevant as the Net continues to evolve

The new administration will likely defang efforts to enforce Net neutrality and online privacy protections, and potentially ramp up domestic and international surveillance  

Broadband Internet access will be reclassified as a telecom service under a modified set of rules. Court battles and more Congressional hearings to follow

The FCC will soon vote on the spread of high-speed municipal broadband services and ISPs’ rights to discriminate against certain Web traffic

What is net neutrality and why is it making news lately? Tech Talker explains.

Distribution companies’ digital locks are like roach motels: Copyrighted works check in but they don’t check out

President Obama announced his support Monday for net neutrality. And Texas Republican Senator Ted Cruz let loose one of his biggest howls, tweeting: “Net Neutrality” is Obamacare for the Internet; the Internet should not operate at the speed of government.

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The FCC has asked for comment on whether the Internet should be reclassified as a public utility to preserve net neutrality—but the motion faces political and legal hurdles

A brief history of the war for Net neutrality

Who gets to control what's passing through those pipes?

The ruling in favor of corporate broadband providers may not only up consumer costs but also cripple start-ups, which may stifle the kind of innovative content that has made the Web an essential service

A global computer-based communication network has fundamentally changed our social, cultural, and political landscape over the past 20 years.  As an evolutionary anthropologist, I have to point out that there has been no previous communication revolution of this speed or intensity.  Consequently, this communication tool gives us the power to completely restructure our entire existence, [...]

To keep the Web from collapsing under the weight of ever more data, the network needs to radically change the way it handles information, says the head of Bell Labs Research

The head of Bell Labs Research says the Internet should deal in information rather than simply bits and bytes

Changing the Internet's focus from data location to the nature of the information itself should improve network efficiency and security

Content providers and users are still far apart on proposed Internet piracy-protection legislation as alternative bill is offered

The government's net neutrality compromise fell flat. Here's a simple fix

Get ready for IPv6: The explosive global growth of connected devices has nearly depleted the 4.3 billion addresses of Internet protocol version 4

The controversial measure will let broadband providers prioritize Internet content, but detractors say the government is fixing something that is not broken

The Web is critical not merely to the digital revolution but to our continued prosperity—and even our liberty. Like democracy itself, it needs defending