Our Stamp Act: AT&T Broadband Caps and Online Democracy
Region: United Statesby Matthew L. Schafer Note: This report originally appeared on the media website LWR. This week, two public interest groups wrote to the Federal Communications Commission to urge an investigation of AT&T’s broadb... more
Views: 1523Supreme Court Gives AT&T a Grammar Lesson, Ruling Against Corporate Personhood
Region: United StatesNote: This article originally appeared on the media website LWR. by Matthew L. Schafer On Tuesday, the Supreme Court gave AT&T a grammar lesson, ruling against the telecommunications giant in a unanimous decision regard... more
Views: 1210The WSJ Gets Its Facts Wrong, Says No to Net Neutrality
Region: United Statesby Matthew L. Schafer Note: This article originally appeared at the media website LWR. On Thursday, The Wall Street Journal published a short editorial regarding the net neutrality Order recently passed by the FCC. ... more
Views: 1541As "Politics Goes Mobile," the FCC Fails to Enforce Net Neutrality
Region: United StatesAs reports show a growing audience for mobile broadband, the recent FCC net neutrality rules fail to provide equal protection for the same Internet, causing some to worry that certain content will be blocked by wireles... more
Views: 2584Net Neutrality: Four Road Signs, Miles of Ambiguity, and Two Information Highways
Region: United Statesby Matthew L. Schafer The FCC's Net Neutrality Isn't Neutral After reading the 80 page Net Neutrality Order from the FCC, one word comes to mind: Reasonable. Not because the plan is reasonable, but because the wo... more
Views: 1864FCC Releases Full Text of Rule and Order for Net Neutrality Rules
Region: United Statesby Matthew L. Schafer Note: This report originally appeared at LWR. On Thursday, the FCC released a copy of the Order it approved Wednesday. The Order, which rounds out at 170 pages, does not, for some, go far en... more
Views: 2084A Lump of Coal: New Net Neutrality Rules Attacked from the Right and the Left
Region: United Statesby Matthew L. Schafer Note: This report originally appeared at the media website LWR. On Tuesday, a 3-2 vote at Federal Communications Commission passed a “Net Neutrality Order” providing “basic ... more
Views: 1126Verizon to Pay Upwards of $50 million in Refunds, Clyburn Says Customers Deserve More than Refunds
Region: United Statesby Matthew L. Schafer Note: This report originally appeared on the media blog Lippmann Would Roll. On Sunday, Verizon Wireless reported that it will refund customers who were subject to various $1.99 data fees as a resul... more
Views: 1295Google, Verizon Reportedly Agree on First Ever Pay-to-Play Deal Online
Region: United Statesby Matthew L. Schafer Note: This report originally appeared in the media blog Lippmann Would Roll. On Thursday Bloomberg and The New York Times broke a much anticipated and rumored agreement between Internet service pr... more
Views: 1678Congressmen Tell FCC to Stop Doing Its Job
Region: United Statesby Matthew L. Schafer Note: This report originally appeared in the media blog Lippmann Would Roll. On Friday, Congressmen Gene Green [D-TX] and Fred Upton [R-MI] introduced a concurrent resolution that “directs th... more
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