Trump’s FCC chairman Ajit Pai has proposed a major change in internet regulation, doing away with the Open Internet Order. Experts describe what’s at stake, and why it matters.
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The public must prepare to stand up for a free press, and against online censorship and surveillance.
Not all internet traffic is the same. Despite the recent legal win for network neutrality, many questions remain.
If you like binge-watching Netflix, streaming audio or online gaming, then you should be celebrating this week. And if your business depends on reaching a wide audience online, you should join in.
Internet providers increasingly allow services to subsidize the cost of delivering their content to users. That may seem like a win for consumers, but game theory suggests otherwise.
The decision of an Indian regulator to make Facebook Free Basics illegal saw reason trump propaganda.
Net neutrality is supposed to keep internet providers from offering preferential treatment, but there’s a loophole when the ISP owns the content.
The need for net neutrality regulations in the US speaks volumes about competition in the land of the free market.
Short answer: it isn’t obvious that it can. Let me back up a second and explain why I am revisiting this issue. Tim Harford published an article a few days ago that took his masterful econsplaining skills…
This open internet debate isn’t the first time the government has wrestled with the question of how to apportion rights between private media owners and the public.
The FCC proposal could prevent content discrimination but wouldn’t solve the main problem: most rules governing the web are 80 years old.
Economic research over the past 50 years shows efforts to regulate telecoms as utilities doesn’t work.
Last night, BlackBerry CEO John Chen penned a blog post on net neutrality. He was in favor of net neutrality but in the last half of his post introduced a whole new notion of neutrality: “application neutrality…
Yesterday the European Parliament had an historic vote on the issue of “net neutrality”, and became the largest bloc in the world to affirm this open internet principle. This was part of a law on communications…
A US court ruling meaning broadband internet service providers will no longer have to follow principles of network neutrality has sparked predictions the internet will end as we know it. Some predict it…
We are entering a time of great uncertainty for internet freedom following two recent events. Both occurred in the US but have repercussions for Europe, where the debate on the future of net neutrality…
Net neutrality was succinctly described in a recent study as “the belief that ISPs [internet service providers] must treat all internet content equally”. Without net neutrality we see situations such as…
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Eugene H. Fram Chair in Applied Critical Thinking; Principal of the Collaboratory for Resiliency & Recovery @ RIT & Professor of Civil Engineering Technology, Environmental Management and Safety, Rochester Institute of Technology