Here’s the deal: The U.S. Conference of Mayors is meeting later this week in Dallas and on the agenda is a resolution in support of real Net Neutrality.
On Wednesday, the Federal Communications Commission broke its silence and issued the agency’s first big announcement since a federal court struck down the Net Neutrality rules last month. Unfortunately, the FCC plan does nothing to save the open Internet.
You might know my buddy Comcast. As the country’s largest Internet and cable company, Comcast is super popular (or maybe just a super monopoly, but hey ... six of one/half a dozen of the other).
What's made the Internet so great for women (besides offering us fun and often hilarious ways of pointing out gender inequity) is how it’s allowed us all to sidestep the gatekeepers.
In the wake of Tuesday’s big Net Neutrality announcement, it's time we got serious about the “R” word. And no, we're not talking about “regulation.” The future of the Internet as we know it today is all about “reclassification.”
Here’s something to be thankful for: Tom Wheeler, the new Federal Communications Commission chairman, is saying he’s all about representing the people — and not big industry.
Let it be known, in case there was any doubt: They have everything.
Any shred of a notion that we have some degree of privacy in our phone communications, emails, social networks, instant-messaging accounts or even our address books is gone.
Score one for the good guys. In response to public pressure, Google released an updated terms of service that reversed an earlier move to prohibit the use of servers on its new fiber networks.
At a certain point you just get sick of what mega corporations are trying to get away with.
Take Verizon. Here’s a company that makes its money selling Internet access … yet it wants to break the way the Internet works.
