The Internet Law Center Joins Battle for the Net with Internet Slowdown Day. The firm is proud to be joining organizations such as those depicted left in stressing the need to protect Net Neutrality through Internet Slowdown Day. via Battle For The Net.; If you woke up tomorrow, and your internet looked like this, what…
FCC Chair GenachowskiDefies GOP on Net Neutrality The Federal Communications Commission (“FCC”) has suffered a string a setbacks on net neutrality this year. In April, the D.C. Circuit ruled the FCC lacked authority for the net neutrality principles adopted by the Bush FCC and therefore the Obama FCC lacked authority for its more comprehensive regulatory…
FCC Chair Julius Genachowski Pursues “Third Way” on Net Neutrality Unlike Rep. Boucher, Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman Julius Genachowski has not been hesitant in pursuing his key mission — net neutrality. The net neutrality debate stems from a 2005 Supreme Court ruling affirming a 2002 FCC decision that broadband services were informational services (Title I of…
TOP STORIES OF 2009 ZERO HOUR APPROACHING ON PRIVACY; NINTH CIRCUIT SHUTS DOOR TO LITIGATION MILLS & NEGATIVE OPTION CRACK DOWN Zero Hour on Privacy Throughout the year, the FTC ratcheted up the rhetoric that action was imminent if the online advertising industry did not move to provide greater privacy safeguards for behavioral targeting. The year ended with…
Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chair Julius Genachowski was successful in getting the FCC to unanimously agree to begin the process of formalizing the existing Net Neutrality Guidelines (adopted by the FCC in 2005). Republican Commissioners, however, stressed they were approving the process only and not necessarily the end result. Republicans on Capitol Hill were less generous, immediately introducing legislation…
From 9/21 Cyber Report The FCC has announced that it will issues rules formalizing its 2005 Policy Statement on Internet Neutrality. The Commission used these principles to find that Comsat improperly blocked traffic from peer-to-peer sites, but Comsat is appealing this ruling claiming the principles were not binding. The proposed rules will also include a…
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