For years a lineup of phone and cable industry spokespeople has called Net Neutrality “a solution in search of a problem.” The history of Net Neutrality violations proves otherwise.
It’s hard to defend legislation that undermines internet users’ essential privacy rights. But that hasn’t stopped the broadband industry and its many friends in Washington from trying.
Members of Congress should do themselves a favor and listen to the voices of their constituents instead of cozying up to the administration and its ill-advised plan to silence NPR and PBS.
On Inauguration Day, police arrested six journalists who were covering protests in Washington, D.C. The reporters were charged with felony counts of “inciting to riot” and cause bodily harm, a crime punishable up to a maximum of 10 years in jail and fines of up to $25,000.
The Trump administration is pushing a plan to axe funding to hundreds of local NPR and PBS stations around the country. After coming out of an election where fake news was rampant and cable-news networks refused to call out racism, the last thing we need is an attack on public broadcasting.
One of Donald Trump’s top tech-policy advisers has a plan: Do away with the main agency that protects the rights of internet users and media consumers in America.
