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Official New FCC Net Neutrality Rules To Be Published Soon

Update: published! Have you been wondering where the FCC’s Net Neutrality rules are? News reports this week say that The FCC sent its net neutrality rules to the Federal Register, but publishing schedules mean that it will be “a number of days” before they appear. FCC sends net neutrality rules to Federal Register, sets stage […]

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Fiction: Postcard from an Un-neutral Net

I (Daniel), was part of National Novel Writing Month. Despite the name, you can pretty much write anything you want as long as you try to make 50,000 words during the month of November. I chose to write an anthology of short stories using randomly generated writing prompts. One of my stories turned out to […]

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President Obama supports net neutrality. How about a truly public “public utility”?

The news is all over the Internet: President Obama today made a strong statement in support of [[Net neutrality]], urging the FCC to adopt strict rules on net neutrality in order to assure a level Internet playing field and not allow Internet Service Providers (ISPs) to discriminate Internet traffic (news coverage here and here). Yes, […]

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Where Are We In The Net Neutrality Debate?

A good overview: Where Are We In The Net Neutrality Debate?, by Kevin Taglang, Benton Foundation (September 19, 2014).

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Contact the FCC and Congress. Tell them we need net neutrality for an equitable Internet

“The chairman’s defenders — the cable and phone companies themselves — would likely respond that the “slow” lanes would be pretty fast while the “fast” lanes could offer governments even more benefits. But don’t believe it. Our nation is already in the global slow lane.” — Slate.com See the spinning wheel of death? September 10 […]

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