FCC Caves on Net Neutrality

Minimalist · Dec 14, 2017

FCC Ignores Americans' Wishes, Fake Comments And Repeals Net Neutrality--But It's Not Over Yet
With the change to "light touch," often voluntary regulation for internet service providers (ISPs) set to go into effect next year, activists and internet freedom supporters from both sides of the aisle are calling for action online while they still can (yes, really: Republicans included).

Because it's not too late yet; Americans have at least two months and a few ways to compel Congress to fix the FCC's big mistake--which, partisan rhetoric aside, would unavoidably strengthen the already powerful and leave every individual American in a much weaker position for handling the increasingly high-tech landscape, economy, and challenges of tomorrow.
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https://www.forbes.com/sites/janetw...s-and-repeals-net-neutrality-but-its-not-over

Krusty · Dec 16, 2017

Australia follows US lead on internet access
At the moment, Australia has no specific laws ensuring net neutrality.

However, the laws that guaranteed net neutrality in the US provided a standard by which many Australian companies have operated, according to Mr Singleton-Norton.

"With that now gone, we're worried about what Australian operators will see as an opportunity to change that," he said.

"In fact, we've already seen some comments, such as from the CEO of Vodafone Australia, that he is willing to look into this as to how he could change processes here in Australia."

As well as consumers, smaller internet service providers could also be disadvantaged, with bigger rivals having the capacity to offer packages that aren't available to smaller companies, according to Aussie Broadband corporate strategy manager Matthew Kusi-Appauh.
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http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-12-16/net-neutrality-us-decision-could-affect-australians/9265056

IvoShoen · Dec 19, 2017

That will only please ISP's
http://mashable.com/2017/12/19/republican-net-neutrality-bill/#CO7z1SLSv6q0

Minimalist · Dec 22, 2017

If types of traffic are assigned differing priorities either for competitive advantage or because a vendor is willing to pay for prioritized speed, there is, potentially, a delay being introduced into the distribution of updates or real-time cloud-based protection. Imagine the scenario where an Internet Service Provider (ISP) allows a security company providing malware protection the option to pay for their traffic to be prioritized and a lower priority level imposed on all other providers. When antimalware companies are protecting tens or hundreds of millions of devices, this could put many devices and their users’ critical data at risk.
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https://www.welivesecurity.com/2017/12/21/revoking-net-neutrality-security/

Minimalist · Jan 13, 2018

Imagine this: You're at work one day and you see colleagues gathered around a monitor, watching breaking news. The day’s storm has required the local school to close early and you are seeing live news footage of parents picking up their kids. But you’re still at the office because you didn’t get the notification. You were in meetings all day and not able to check your email or voicemail. You’re frustrated because the school didn’t send you a text message which you could have looked at while you were in your meetings. Later you learn the school actually had sent you a text message with instructions about an early pickup -- on the same platform it uses for other important parent notifications -- but you didn’t get the message this time. Why not?
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https://www.forbes.com/sites/ciocentral/2018/01/12/what-a-world-without-net-neutrality-looks-like

JoWazzoo · Feb 27, 2018

Democrats submit plan to save net neutrality, still one vote short in Senate

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy...et-a-senate-vote-in-the-spring-democrats-say/

Minimalist · Mar 6, 2018

While the Federal Communications Commission had barred states from overriding its net neutrality repeal, Washington has become the first state to pass its own law that protects net neutrality protections. The law will prevent Big Telecom from slowing down internet access, prioritizing certain traffic, or censoring content online.
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https://wccftech.com/washington-first-state-preserve-net-neutrality/

hawki · May 16, 2018

"The Senate on Wednesday voted to overturn the Federal Communications Commission's rollback of... "net neutrality" regulations...but the measure faces little chance of passing in the House. It would also require [The] President['s] ...signature..."

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/s...eutrality-repeal-2018-05-16-15915924?mod=bnbh

Vote was 52-47

hawki · Jun 5, 2018

"FCC Emails Show Agency Spread Lies to Bolster Dubious DDoS Attack Claims [during Net Neutrality Comment Period]

As it wrestled with accusations about a fake cyberattack last spring, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) purposely misled several news organizations, choosing to feed journalists false information, while at the same time discouraging them from challenging the agency’s official story.

Internal emails reviewed by Gizmodo lay bare the agency’s efforts to counter rife speculation that senior officials manufactured a cyberattack, allegedly to explain away technical problems plaguing the FCC’s comment system amid its high-profile collection of public comments on a controversial and since-passed proposal to overturn federal net neutrality rules..."

https://gizmodo.com/fcc-emails-show-agency-spread-lies-to-bolster-dubious-d-1826535344

hawki · Jun 8, 2018

"In 1996, Congress passed the Telecommunications Act in order to inject competition into the telephone market and set the stage for a nascent commercial Internet. Last month, US Telecom, the trade association of AT&T and Verizon, filed a petition with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to repeal one of the central requirements of the ’96 Act that has promoted competition. That requirement being that incumbent telephone companies share their copper line infrastructure at regulated rates with to lower the barrier of entering an incumbent’s market. If granted, incumbent wireline telephone companies will be free to raise prices or simply disconnect competitors’ access to their infrastructure and potentially jeopardize what the small amount of remaining competition that exists in high-speed broadband.

While copper wire infrastructure may strike people as the infrastructure of yesterday, its existence and the legal rights to access it remain essential for competitive entry into the high-speed broadband market. This is because it is one of the only remaining ways a new company can gain customers to then leverage to finance fiber optic deployment..."

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/...inues-congress-and-states-att-and-verizon-are

guest · Aug 7, 2018

FCC Admits Site DDoS Claims Were False
August 07, 2018
https://www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/fcc-admits-site-ddos-claims-were/

The FCC’s attempt to maintain that its comments page crashed last May as a result of a co-ordinated DDoS attack was actually built on falsehoods, it has admitted.

The regulator was forced to make the admission ahead of an inspector general report into the case due to be released shortly.

“With respect to the report’s findings, I am deeply disappointed that the FCC’s former chief information officer (CIO), who was hired by the prior administration and is no longer with the Commission, provided inaccurate information about this incident to me, my office, Congress, and the American people,” he said.
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hawki · Aug 31, 2018

"California lawmakers vote to pass toughest net neutrality law in the nation

California lawmakers rallied enough votes Friday to pass the nation’s toughest net neutrality law to prevent Internet providers from favoring certain websites, setting up a fight with federal regulators who voted last year to erase such rules.

If Gov. Jerry Brown (D) signs the law in the coming weeks, California will become the powerhouse in a growing group of states at odds with the Federal Communications Commission in a clash that could end up before the Supreme Court..."

https://www.washingtonpost.com/busi...6703c87583e_story.html?utm_term=.4bcabd76af78

EASTER · Aug 31, 2018

Leave it up to the Silicon Valley state to rally up changes in inventions, entertainment, and now internet.

ronjor · Sep 4, 2018

YouTube, Netflix Videos Found to Be Slowed by Wireless Carriers

By Olga Kharif September 4, 2018, 4:00 AM CDT
The researchers used a smartphone app called Wehe, downloaded by about 100,000 consumers, to monitor which mobile services are being throttled when and by whom, in what likely is the single largest running study of its kind.
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hawki · Dec 8, 2018

"Millions Of Comments About The FCC's Net Neutrality Rules Were Fake. Now The Feds Are Investigating.

The Justice Department is investigating whether crimes were committed when potentially millions of people’s identities were posted to the FCC’s website without their permission, falsely attributing to them opinions about net neutrality rules,..

Two organizations told BuzzFeed News, each on condition that they not be named, that the FBI delivered subpoenas to them related to the comments.

The reports are the first that federal investigators are taking in interest in the case, which was already subject to an investigation previously announced by the New York Attorney General’s office..."

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/kevincollier/feds-investigation-net-neutrality-comments

ronjor · Jan 16, 2019

FCC asks court for delay in case that could restore net neutrality rules

Jon Brodkin - 1/16/2019, 1:29 PM
FCC asks court to delay oral arguments, citing government shutdown.
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hawki · Feb 3, 2019

"FCC struggles to convince judge that broadband isn’t “telecommunications”

Skeptical judges question FCC's justification of net neutrality repeal.

FCC General Counsel Thomas Johnson struggled to explain why broadband shouldn't be considered a telecommunications service, and struggled to explain the FCC's failure to protect public safety agencies from Internet providers blocking or slowing down content.

Oral arguments were held today in the case, which is being decided by a three-judge panel of the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit...Throttling of firefighters' data plans played a major role in today's oral arguments..."

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy...fcc-case-as-it-defends-net-neutrality-repeal/

guest · May 17, 2019

Net neutrality supporter sentenced for death threats to FCC Chairman Pai
May 17, 2019
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-...ath-threats-to-fcc-chairman-pai-idUSKCN1SN2AN

A California man was sentenced to 20 months in prison on Friday after pleading guilty for threatening to kill the family of U.S. Federal Communications Commission Chairman Ajit Pai over the regulator’s successful effort to repeal net neutrality rules.

The Justice Department said Markara Man, 33, of Norwalk, California, sent the email threats “in hopes it would cause (Pai) to reverse his position on net neutrality.”
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guest · Aug 19, 2019

Wireless Carrier Throttling of Online Video Is Pervasive: Study
August 19, 2019
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/arti...throttling-of-online-video-is-pervasive-study

U.S. wireless carriers have long said they may slow video traffic on their networks to avoid congestion and bottlenecks. But new research shows the throttling happens pretty much everywhere all the time.

Researchers from Northeastern University and University of Massachusetts Amherst conducted more than 650,000 tests in the U.S. and found that from early 2018 to early 2019, AT&T Inc. throttled Netflix Inc. 70% of the time and Google’s YouTube service 74% of the time. But AT&T didn’t slow down Amazon.com Inc.’s Prime Video at all.

While it’s true that slowing speeds can reduce congestion, the carriers’ behavior raises questions about whether all internet traffic is treated equally, a prime tenet of net neutrality.
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The researchers enlisted more than 126,000 smartphone users globally, who downloaded an app called Wehe to test internet connections. Information from those tests was aggregated and analyzed to check if data speeds are being slowed, or throttled, for specific mobile services.
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guest · Sep 28, 2019

Study Proves The FCC's Core Justification for Killing Net Neutrality Was False
September 27, 2019
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/...fication-for-killing-net-neutrality-was-false

A new study has found the FCC’s primary justification for repealing net neutrality was indisputably false.

For years, big ISPs and Trump FCC boss Ajit Pai have told anyone who’d listen that the FCC’s net neutrality rules, passed in 2015 and repealed last year in a flurry of controversy and alleged fraud, dramatically stifled broadband investment across the United States. Repeal the rules, Pai declared, and US broadband investment would explode.

But a new study from George Washington University indicates that Pai’s claims were patently false. The study took a closer look at the earnings reports and SEC filings of 8,577 unique companies from Q1 2009 through Q3 2018 to conclude that the passage and repeal of the rules had no meaningful impact on broadband investment. Several hundred of these were telecom companies.

“The results of the paper are clear and should be both unsurprising and uncontroversial,” The researchers said
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hawki · Oct 1, 2019

"Appeals court upholds ... administration’s cancelling of net neutrality rules

A federal appeals court on Tuesday affirmed the ...administration acted lawfully when it scrapped the U.S. government’s net neutrality rules in 2017, dealing a blow to tech giants and consumer advocates who argued that the repeal would create a stratified Internet of fast and slow lanes...

But the ruling still appeared to offer a lifeline to net neutrality supporters: It overruled an effort by the FCC to block states from adopting open-internet protections of their own, a move that could spur states such as California to act..."

https://www.washingtonpost.com/tech...inistrations-cancelling-net-neutrality-rules/

guest · Dec 15, 2019

FCC’s “illogical” claim that broadband isn’t telecommunications faces appeal
Mozilla, others ask court to reverse ruling that let FCC kill net neutrality
December 13, 2019
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy...oadband-isnt-telecommunications-faces-appeal/

Mozilla and other organizations today appealed the court ruling that upheld the Federal Communications Commission's repeal of net neutrality rules, arguing that the FCC's claim that broadband isn't telecommunications should not have been accepted by judges.

Joining Mozilla in the appeal were online companies Etsy and Vimeo, industry lobby group Incompas, and the Ad Hoc Telecom Users Committee, which represents business users of communications services. The case is known as Mozilla v. FCC.
Mozilla wrote in a blog post today:

"Mozilla's petition focuses on the FCC's reclassification of broadband as an information service and on the FCC's failure to properly address competition and market harm. We explain why we believe the court can in fact overturn the FCC's new treatment of broadband service despite some of the deciding judges' belief that Supreme court precedent prevents rejection of what they consider a nonsensical outcome. [...]"
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guest · Feb 7, 2020

Ajit Pai defeats another attempt to restore FCC’s net neutrality rules
Repeal still intact, but appealing to the Supreme Court is an option
February 7, 2020
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy...attempt-to-restore-fccs-net-neutrality-rules/

The Federal Communications Commission has defeated another challenge to its repeal of net neutrality rules, as a federal court yesterday decided that it won't rehear the case.

In October 2019, a three-judge panel at the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit upheld the FCC's repeal of net neutrality rules. Mozilla, consumer-advocacy groups, and state attorneys general asked for a rehearing in front of all the DC Circuit court judges, but the request was denied yesterday in a very short ruling.

The petitioners could still appeal to the US Supreme Court but haven't said if they will do so.

"While today's result is unfortunate, it's not that surprising," Free Press VP of Policy and General Counsel Matt Wood said. "Courts routinely deny rehearing requests like this. But we'll keep weighing our legal options."
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ronjor · Feb 21, 2020

FCC forced to ask for public feedback on net neutrality repeal

Daniel Cooper, @danielwcooper 21 Feb 2020
It defeated Mozilla's attempt to undo net neutrality, but courts want the FCC to check its working.
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guest · Apr 21, 2020

FCC blasted for “shameful” ruling against cities and fire department
Amid pandemic, FCC won’t give cities more time to file comments on public safety
April 21, 2020
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy...ul-ruling-against-cities-and-fire-department/

The Federal Communications Commission is in another dispute with the fire department that fought for net neutrality rules after being throttled by Verizon during a wildfire response.

The Santa Clara County Central Fire Protection District, along with the cities of Los Angeles and New York, last week asked the FCC to extend a deadline for filing comments on the last remaining piece of FCC Chairman Ajit Pai's net neutrality repeal.
The fire department and cities said they couldn't meet the FCC's comments deadline because of the coronavirus pandemic.

But the FCC refused to grant more time for filing comments in an order issued yesterday, resulting in condemnation from the Santa Clara County Fire Department, Democrats, and consumer advocates.
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FCC faces blowback
Santa Clara County Counsel James Williams decried what he called "the absurdity of the FCC denying the County's request for an extension to submit these comments in the midst of the pandemic response."

Jessica Rosenworcel, one of two Democrats on the Republican-majority FCC, said it is "shameful that the FCC did not heed" the municipalities' request for more time. "The FCC was wrong when it repealed net neutrality and was wrong again today in its decision to deny a request from cities and first responders seeking extra time to comment on the net neutrality remand," Rosenworcel said yesterday.
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