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In the three months since the FCC decided to repeal existing net neutrality protections, a sizable political coalition has worked to reinstate net neutrality through a variety of legal procedures. Both at the state and municipal level, open internet advocates and politicians have launched into action, ranging from lawsuits to executive orders to legislation in order […]
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The Next Stage of the Net Neutrality Fight has Begun
February 27th, 2018 
Awake Goy On Thursday, the FCC’s net neutrality rule was published in the Federal Register. This was the official start of the next phase of the campaign to protect the open Internet as a common carrier with equal access for all and without prejudice based on content (net neutrality). There are multiple fronts of struggle to make net […]
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No Comments »Next Stage Of Net Neutrality Conflict Begins
February 25th, 2018 Awake Goy Next Stage Of Net Neutrality Conflict Begins On Thursday, the FCC’s net neutrality rule was published in the Federal Register. This was the official start of the next phase of the campaign to protect the open Internet as a common carrier with equal access for all and without prejudice based on content (net neutrality). There […]
Congressional Review Act Of Net Neutrality Clock About To Begin
February 6th, 2018 Awake Goy Congressional Review Act Of Net Neutrality Clock About To Begin Above Photo: Greg Nash The Senate has received the Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC) official notice of measures to scrap net neutrality rules, two congressional sources confirmed. The notice is one of the first procedural steps in starting the 60-day deadline Congress has to stop the FCC’s […]
Net Neutrality Activist ‘Throttles’ Street Traffic Outside FCC Building
January 31st, 2018 Awake Goy Net Neutrality Activist ‘Throttles’ Street Traffic Outside FCC Building Above Photo: From Thenextweb.com While the rest of you were crying into your cruelty-free glasses of vegan pond-water over the repeal of net neutrality, humanitarian and activist Rob Bliss was restoring freedom to American roads. Instead of allowing traffic to rely on government regulations and oversight, […]
Posted in World News Tags: activist, building, neutrality, outside, street, throttles, traffic No Comments »Senate Push For Net Neutrality Reaches 50 Supporters
January 18th, 2018 Awake Goy Senate Push For Net Neutrality Reaches 50 Supporters Above Photo: From Tumblr.fightforthefuture.org Note: The action of Ajit Pai’s FCC to undermine Net Neutrality has awoken millions of people who care about equal access for all on the Internet. This is creating a wave of political power that politicians in Washington, DC do not want to […]
Net Neutrality: Floor Vote Will Force Senators To Go On Record
January 14th, 2018 Awake Goy Net Neutrality: Floor Vote Will Force Senators To Go On Record Above Photo: From John Zangas NOTE: What we need now is to put the pressure on the Senate! Here’s a list of the other 4 Republican Senators on the short list to save Net Neutrality. Their twitter handles are included so that you can […]
Restoration Of Net Neutrality Rules Hits Key Milestone In Senate
January 11th, 2018 Awake Goy Restoration Of Net Neutrality Rules Hits Key Milestone In Senate Above Photo: US Capitol Building in Washington, DC. Getty | Tetra Images | Henryk Sadura Note: On January 9th, Senator Ed Markey reports that 43 senators have signed on to co-sponsor the CRA vote to block the FCC’s rule undermining net neutrality and pass a Resolution of […]
While US Attacks Net Neutrality, UK Makes High-Speed Internet ‘Legal Right’
December 21st, 2017 Awake Goy While last week the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) rolled back net neutrality rules that allowed the internet to be regulated as a public utility, the United Kingdom announced Wednesday that by 2020, high-speed internet will be a legal right for all British households and businesses. Rejecting an offer from the British communications company BT to voluntarily […]
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December 20th, 2017 Awake Goy CrossTalking – CrossTalk on Net Neutrality: Net Bias? By CrossTalkyoutube.com The single most important social equalizer of our time the Internet is under grave threat. The decision by the Federal Communications Commission essentially gives Internet Service Providers the keys to the Internet. Without net neutrality, the economic opportunity divide will only widen for all. CrossTalking […]
Call Congress: Revoke The FCC’s Decision To End Net Neutrality
December 17th, 2017 Awake Goy Call Congress: Revoke The FCC’s Decision To End Net Neutrality Source Article from https://popularresistance.org/call-congress-revoke-the-fccs-decision-to-end-net-neutrality/
Despite Overwhelming Opposition, FCC Officially Votes to KILL Net Neutrality
December 16th, 2017 Awake Goy Ajit Pai, chairman of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), drinks from an oversized coffee mug during an open commission meeting in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Thursday, Dec. 14, 2017. The FCC is slated to vote to roll back a 2015 utility-style classification of broadband and a raft of related net neutrality rules, including bans […]
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December 15th, 2017 Awake Goy The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) abruptly stopped its meeting Thursday and evacuated its meeting room “on advice of security” as it prepared to vote to repeal the Obama-era net neutrality rules. FCC Chairman Ajit Pai was in the middle of delivering his statement when he recessed the meeting. Those in the room were instructed to […]
The FCC Officially Votes to Kill Net Neutrality
December 15th, 2017 Awake Goy Despite overwhelming opposition from Congress, technical experts, advocacy organizations and, of course, the American people, the FCC has voted to eliminate 2015’s Open Internet Order and the net neutrality protections it established. The order passed today, “Restoring Internet Freedom,” essentially removes the FCC as a regulator of the broadband industry and relegates rules that prevented […]
We Saved Net Neutrality Once. We Can Do It Again
December 14th, 2017 Awake Goy Democracy lives or dies on the quality of public conversation. “Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers or newspapers without a government,” Thomas Jefferson wrote, “I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter.” Today it doesn’t take the smarts of a Jefferson to realize that […]
Organizations Call On FCC To Abandon Attack On Net Neutrality
December 12th, 2017 Awake Goy Organizations Call On FCC To Abandon Attack On Net Neutrality Above Photo: Brian J. Matis/ Flickr WASHINGTON — On Thursday, more than 30 press freedom, civil liberties and open government groups submitted a letter to Federal Communications Commission Chairman Ajit Pai urging him to cancel the scheduled Dec. 14 vote to undermine the open-internet protections put […]
Artists, Actors, And Musicians Support Net Neutrality Protests
December 7th, 2017 Awake Goy Above photo: Michael Stipe, Tom Morello and Graham Nash are among the 150 musicians, actors and artists who penned an open letter in support of net neutrality. Ollie Millington/WireImage, Slaven Vlasic/Getty Images, Bobby Bank/Getty Images Google is blocking our site. Please use the social media sharing buttons (upper left) to share this on your social media and […]
Yes, U.S. Net Neutrality Debacle Will Impact People In Canada.
December 5th, 2017 Awake Goy Above Photo: From nationalobserver.com Google is blocking our site. Please use the social media sharing buttons (upper left) to share this on your social media and help us break through. If you’ve been watching the news in recent weeks you’ve probably heard about the Net Neutrality debacle in the U.S. Net Neutrality is the foundational rule of the […]
Net Neutrality Reg Rollback Riles Religious Groups
December 5th, 2017 Awake Goy In separate initiative, NRB apparently has issues with edge providers Religious groups are calling on FCC chairman Ajit Pai not to eliminate the bright-line network neutrality rules, which he has proposed doing at the FCC’s Dec. 14 public meeting. That came in a letter Monday from, among others, the National Council of Churches, the Islamic Society […]
FCC Poised to Kill Net Neutrality Rules — Here’s How to Keep the Internet Open
December 4th, 2017 Awake Goy December 4th, 2017 By Carolanne Wright Contributing writer for Wake Up World “Information is power. But like all power, there are those who want to keep it for themselves.” ~ Aaron Swartz, co-founder of Demand Progress and net neutrality activist Called the First Amendment issue of our time by Senator Al Franken in 2010, whether or not […]
Reddit Revamps Homepage To Rally For Net Neutrality
December 3rd, 2017 Awake Goy Above Photo: From axios.com Google is blocking our site. Please use the social media sharing buttons (upper left) to share this on your social media and help us break through. Net neutrality activists just took over Reddit with protest posts. “This is my Senator. He sold me out to telecom lobbyists.” If you visit the reddit.com […]
FCC To Kill Net Neutrality Unless We #StopTheVote
November 30th, 2017 Awake Goy Google is blocking our site. Please use the social media sharing buttons (upper left) to share this on your social media and help us break through. On December 14, Verizon lawyer Ajit Pai, who is currently serving as chair of the Federal Communications Commission, FCC, will bring his proposal to dismantle net neutrality for a […]
Businesses As Well As People Support Net Neutrality
November 30th, 2017 Awake Goy Above Photo: Ajit Pai, Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, testifies before a U.S. Senate Appropriations Financial Services and General Government Subcommittee on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, U.S. on June 20, 2017. REUTERS/Aaron P. Bernstein/File Photo Google is blocking our site. Please use the social media sharing buttons (upper left) to share this on […]
Opposition To The Repeal Of Net Neutrality Is Broad
November 30th, 2017 Awake Goy FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION Chief Ajit Pai has announced that on December 14, the body will vote to pare back net neutrality rules. Internet freedom activists and progressive organizations immediately responded to the announcement with a wave of opposition, as was expected. But more interestingly, in some of the most right-wing and Trump-supporting corners of the internet, there is […]
Tech Companies Make Appeal To Save Net Neutrality
November 29th, 2017 Awake Goy Above photo: Greg Nash Google is blocking our site. Please use the social media sharing buttons (upper left) to share this on your social media and help us break through. Hundreds of tech companies and groups, including Twitter, Airbnb, Reddit and Vimeo, are urging the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to keep the Obama-era net neutrality […]
Watching The Hawks – Carving Up Net Neutrality & Wedding Jitters
November 28th, 2017 Awake Goy Watching The Hawks – Carving Up Net Neutrality & Wedding Jitters Watching The Hawksyoutube.com What kind of Internet is in store for consumers in a world without net neutrality? What whoppers lie underneath the surface of the GOP tax reform plan? Traditional marriage loses much of its luster as another royal wedding looms in the […]
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November 28th, 2017 Awake Goy In 2011, brand new fiber optic cables lit up for the first time across the forested terrain of the Ozarks and up and down the farmlands of central Missouri. Here among the hickory and red oaks, you might expect to be in the land that the internet forgot. That’s what it could have been, had […]
FCC Plans December Vote To Kill Net Neutrality Rules
November 17th, 2017 Awake Goy Above Photo: Heer Kommandant/ Flickr Google is blocking our site. Please use the social media sharing buttons (upper left) to share this on your social media and help us break through. The U.S. Federal Communications Commission next month is planning a vote to kill Obama-era rules demanding fair treatment of web traffic and may decide to vacate the […]
Tunnel underneath school in Gaza: UNRWA condemns neutrality violation
October 29th, 2017 Awake Goy nsnbc : The United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) condemned the violation of neutrality after it discovered yet another tunnel underneath one of […]
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“Fake” Net Neutrality Comments At Heart Of Lawsuit Filed Against FCC
Above Photo: Getty Images | designer491 Lawsuit: FCC ignored public records request for data on mass comment uploads. The Federal Communications Commission has ignored a public records request for information that might shed light on the legitimacy of comments on Chairman Ajit Pai’s anti-net neutrality plan, according to a lawsuit filed against the FCC. Freelance writer […]