Years ago, I believed experts who said Net Neutrality wasn’t a big deal for two reasons. First, It never really existed in the first place (because many ISPs prioritize traffic in some way, say, for or against online gaming). Second, the free market would solve the problem, because ISPs that threw up bad content roadblocks would be abandoned.
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The internet as we know it is in peril. Verizon’s victory in the court of appeal this week, seeing the FCC’s attempts to regulate broadband providers in the name of … Continue reading
President Obama won’t take the appeal court striking down the FCC’s net neutrality rules lying down, with a White House statement saying that the commander in chief is still “committed … Continue reading
A federal court dealt a deadly blow to net neutrality
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This morning a court has struck down the FCC’s ability to enforce certain key “Net Neutrality Rules” on companies that would favor certain kinds of web traffic over others. That’s … Continue reading
A U.S. Appeals Court just invalidated the FCC’s net neutrality rules that would’ve made it illegal for telecom companies to favor certain types of traffic over others. The court ruled that the commission lacked the authority to implement and enforce such rules which were embedded in a complicated legal framework.
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It hasn’t been outrightly confirmed by the government of Iran, but at least some within the nation’s borders are now able to access both Twitter and Facebook. For those keeping score, public access to the networks has been banned since 2009, shortly after the reelection of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Iran’s new president, Hassan Rouhani, seems fairly convinced that Iran itself should not be restricting its citizens to information available via social channels, and a number of trusted accounts — including Rouhani himself along with The New York Times‘ Thomas Erdbrink — have tweeted in recent hours without the use of a proxy. It’s unclear whether the lift is intentional, or if it’s scheduled to remain permanently, but we’re obviously hoping it’s a sign of meaningful change.
Filed under: Internet
Via: Quartz
The seemingly endless saga over the regulation of the Internet in the US will be starting a major chapter this week as Verizon and the FCC head off to the US Court of Appeals over issues regarding Net Neutrality. At stake is not only the regulation of the Internet as a basic modern commodity but […]
Google is a company that’s long stood up for the principles of net neutrality, the idea that all packets of information on the internet should be treated equally. But now that it’s an internet service provider, the company’s changing its tune. It’s not the first time.
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When you think about it, does anyone really know what’s going on behind the scenes of the internet? While you’re attempting to figure out how “42” is the obvious answer to that, French regulator ARCEP is moving ahead with an investigation into Verizon and AT&T. Specifically, the two have failed in an attempt to block the aforesaid entity from investigating interconnection agreements.
For those unaware, these types of deals are widely viewed as being able to undermine net neutrality, and we’ve seen the FCC look into similar matters here in the United States. The long and short of it is as follows: with high-bandwidth services growing rapidly, ISPs far and wide are contemplating the move to extract additional revenue out of backbone providers by charging them to deliver heavy traffic to end users. It’ll be interesting to see what ARCEP digs up — something tells us the findings will be known well beyond the borders of France.
Filed under: Internet, Verizon, AT&T
Via: GigaOM
Source: ARCEP
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