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TechdirtAug 20, 2026

FOIA Docs Show Brendan Carr Intimately Collaborated With White House, Right Wing Propaganda Orgs

Back in 2014 you might remember there was a giant, two-year, manufactured news cycle where Republicans pretended to be outraged that the then Obama White House had openly supported the FCC's efforts to impose some modest net neutrality rules (designed to protect consumers and competition from telecom monopoly abuse of power). At the time, major...

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Cory DransfeldtNov 15, 2018

Senators press wireless carriers on mobile throttling

'All online traffic should be treated equally, and Internet service providers should not discriminate against particular content or applications for competitive advantage purposes or otherwise.'

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Cory DransfeldtNov 5, 2018

FCC calls community broadband an attack on free speech

... ISPs could prevent this by simply offering better, faster, and cheaper service. But it's far easier and cheaper to try and buy laws restricting consumer rights, and to have your favorite public official mindlessly demonize something that is, at the end of the day, a legitimate, organic public response to a broadband competition and availability problem ISPs like AT&T, Verizon, and Comcast would prefer regulators ignore.

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Cory DransfeldtNov 5, 2018

America's internet freedom rating drops following net neutrality repeal

Freedom House, a US think tank, analyzes internet freedom around the world every year, and this year's report saw a drop in the US's rating.

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Cory DransfeldtSep 30, 2018

CA governor signs nation's strictest net neutrality law

The Justice Department immediately challenged the law, saying only the federal government can regulate broadband providers.

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Cory DransfeldtSep 5, 2018

FCC chairman boosts telecom companies, throws Silicon Valley under the bus

There's absolutely a legitimate conversation to be had here in terms of what to do about privacy and speech in the Facebook and Twitter era. And that may or may not involve crafting new regulations. But it might be nice if people wised up to the fact that a huge swath of the conversation is being dictated not by parties acting in good faith with a genuine eye on valid solutions, but by telecom monopolies eager to pee in the discourse pool simply to fatten their wallets.

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Cory DransfeldtSep 3, 2018

California passes net neutrality bill

S.B. 822 bans blocking, throttling, and paid prioritization, classic ways that companies have violated net neutrality principles. It also incorporates much of what the FCC learned and incorporated into the 2015 Open Internet Order, preventing new assaults on the free and open Internet. This includes making sure companies can't circumvent net neutrality at the point of interconnection within the state of California.

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Cory DransfeldtAug 10, 2018

CA net neutrality bill back on track

The bill enshrines not only the fundamentals of net neutrality, such as prohibiting ISPs from throttling or blocking sites, but also prohibits other telecom trickery, such as zero rating—a practice where companies provide access to certain parts of the internet for 'free' and charge for others.

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Cory DransfeldtAug 8, 2018

OIG report: FCC lied about being hacked

The OIG report shows that Pai knew from the start that the story of a hack-attack was unsupported by evidence and disputed by experts -- we knew that too, because those experts were speaking publicly at the time, but it's great to see it in official black-and-white.

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Cory DransfeldtAug 7, 2018

FCC admits its site was never hacked

No one seriously believed the FCC's hackers-ate-my-homework excuse, especially after the FCC refused to cooperate with law-enforcement agencies who wanted to investigate the supposed attack and stonewalling Congress on the details.

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Cory DransfeldtJul 8, 2018

CA net neutrality bill makes a comeback

After compromise, nation's toughest net neutrality bill back on track.

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Cory DransfeldtJul 3, 2018

Comcast throttling mobile video and charging extra for high quality streaming

Comcast's Xfinity Mobile service is imposing new speed limits on video watching and personal hotspot usage, and the company will start charging extra for high-definition video over the cellular network.

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Cory DransfeldtJun 29, 2018

California approves new online privacy rules

Consumers would have the right to request all the data collected about them from a business up to twice a year, and businesses would be required to disclose the information free of charge. Consumers would have 'the right to request that a business delete any PI about the consumer which the business has collected from the consumer.'

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Cory DransfeldtJun 13, 2018

Consolidation swiftly follows the death of net neutrality

Combined with the death of net neutrality, the U.S. is creating a very uncertain future where a handful of companies now dominate everything from local sports and news broadcasts to broadband, with few rules or guidelines preventing price gouging, predatory practices, and routinely anti-competitive behavior.

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Cory DransfeldtJun 11, 2018

Net neutrality is repealed as the real fight for it begins

So while many are understandably frustrated today, the elimination of the FCC's 2015 rules shouldn't be seen the end of net neutrality, or the end of the road. It's more like another chapter in a story that has neither a beginning nor an end.

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Cory DransfeldtMay 31, 2018

CA senate passes strict net neutrality law in defiance of ISPs

As a general rule, if something is good for ISPs, it's bad for their customers.

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Cory DransfeldtMay 8, 2018

Popular sites support long-shot effort to save net neutrality

The measure would still face long odds, however. Republicans, who tend to support the FCC's move to repeal net neutrality, hold a solid majority in the House of Representatives. If it were to pass the House, the measure would also need the signature of President Trump or a two-thirds vote in both houses of Congress to override a veto.

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Cory DransfeldtApr 24, 2018

FCC strategically delays finalizing net neutrality repeal

Pai has been fond of saying that the net neutrality repeal hasn't harmed consumers, but that's a pretty low bar to clear given that the rules are still in effect.

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Cory DransfeldtMar 15, 2018

The FCC sucks at repealing net neutrality

... the FCC shot itself in the foot, and when it neutered its own authority over ISPs at Comcast, AT&T and Verizon's behest, it managed to also neuter its authority to preempt states from filling the void. Of course this could all be moot if the FCC loses its battle in court, but it's amusing all the same, and it's another example of how Ajit Pai and friends didn't really think this whole thing through.

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Cory DransfeldtMar 12, 2018

FCC, ISPs grapple with net neutrality challenges

Twelve lawsuits filed against the Federal Communications Commission over its net neutrality repeal have been consolidated into one suit that will be heard at a federal appeals court in California.

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Cory DransfeldtJan 30, 2018

California state senate passes net neutrality legislation

This is a positive first step and one that will, hopefully, be taken up and passed through the state house before being signed into law. It'll be interesting to see how this plays out with the FCC's language preemption language includes in their original order.

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Cory DransfeldtJan 3, 2018

Fort Collins votes in favor of municipal broadband

While the Federal Communications Commission has voted to eliminate the nation's net neutrality rules, the municipal broadband network will be neutral and without data caps.

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Cory DransfeldtSep 30, 2017

A vote for Pai is a vote against consumers and for Big Cable

Mr. Pai, has a long track record of putting big cable before consumers, big corporations above small businesses and pay-to-play over the free and open internet.

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Cory DransfeldtSep 30, 2017

Ending net neutrality will end the Internet as we know it

The path forward is clear. The FCC must abandon its ill-conceived plan to end net neutrality. Instead of creating fast lanes for the few, it should be moving all of us to the fast lane by encouraging competition in local broadband connectivity and pushing companies to deliver higher speeds at more affordable prices. It's the right thing for us as consumers and as citizens.

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