net neutrality

What Google really wants from net neutrality

By: George Landrith 12/02/11 12:25 AM

‘Net neutrality,” which supporters say will keep the Internet free, is actually a plan making it more expensive for many of us. One of the biggest drivers of Net neutrality has been Google, the Internet behemoth. Its goal is to keep its own operational costs lower by trying to make Internet usage more costly for others. Read More

Franken fires up SXSW for net neutrality: 'Let's keep Austin weird. Let's keep the internet weird'

By: Charlie Spiering 03/14/11 11:04 AM

"Let's not sell out. Let's not let the government sell us out. Let's fight for net neutrality. Let's keep Austin weird. Let's keep the internet weird. Let's keep the internet free." said Senator Al Franken in his net neutrality appeal to techies at the SXSW interactive music and film festival. Read More

Net neutrality’s phony opposition

By: Ron Arnold 01/16/11 12:00 AM

Last month, when Federal Communications Commission Chairman Julius Genachowski won approval of his “net neutrality” rules on a party-line 3-2 vote — supposedly to protect the free-wheeling Internet from corporate predators intent on running it their way — it got slammed from all sides. Republicans, including FCC commissioner Robert McDowell, blasted the rules as Democratic overreach. Read More

Only one in five Americans want government to regulate the Internet

By: Mark Tapscott 12/28/10 12:45 PM

Upwards of 60 percent of Americans opposed Obamacare before it was passed by Congress and signed into law by President Obama. Now that it's on the books, the same percentage want Obamacare repealed, according to Rasmussen Reports. Read More

How the far left hacked the FCC

By: Matthew Sheffield 12/22/10 11:01 AM

Technology policy is not something that is immediately interesting to most people, yet it's worth taking a look at the story behind the FCC's recent announcement that it will be taking web network regulation into its own hands. Read More

Ramming Speed

By: Nate Beeler 12/22/10 12:02 AM

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Mystery proposal to regulate the Internet

By: SF Examiner Editorial 12/21/10 1:43 AM

If President Barack Obama wants his executive branch to resemble the opaque, power-hungry political machinations in Chicago, he seems to be succeeding in the area of Internet regulation. Read More

Henry Waxman reminds everyone where internet rules are written

By: Seton Motley 09/30/10 12:00 AM

On Tuesday, House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Henry Waxman (D-Calif.) introduced a draft internet regulation bill, which addresses web networks and delineates where exactly the Federal Communications Commission (FCC)’s authority over the internet ends and begins. Read More

Just another liberal advocacy group

By: Staff report 08/17/10 12:00 AM

Friends of the Earth has a reputation of being a principled, if misguided, single-issue group. Yet in its latest email action alert, it reveals it is less interested in guarding the environment than in promoting leftist ideology. Why else would an environmental group take a stand on, of all things, net neutrality? Read More

WSJ: Wireless killed Net Neutrality

By: Staff report 08/11/10 12:00 AM

Google’s quest for a free ride on the Internet is finally ending with a whimper, not a bang, Holman Jenkins writes, as the company’s executives begin to realize that Net Neutrality doesn’t work in the real world. Read More