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Republican Sen. Susan Collins is calling on the FCC to cancel the net neutrality vote
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- In a letter published Thursday morning, Collins and King urged Pai to cancel the vote to give Congress and the FCC time to hold public hearings.
- Without net-neutrality protections, internet service providers could block users from streaming-video sites like Netflix or YouTube, for example, or charge extra to access them. They could also force them to pay more to ensure videos stream at the same speed and quality as others.
- A rollback of the rules wouldn't take effect for a few months — some 60 days after being published in the Federal Register.
Right-Wing Conspiracy Theory About Alabama Election Gets A Brutal Reality Check
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Trump daily intel updates structured to avoid upsetting him: report
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- A former senior intelligence official familiar with the matter said intelligence about Russia that could upset Trump is sometimes just included in the written assessment. The order in which the information is presented could also be altered to try not to upset Trump, according to the Post.
Dem FCC commissioner: Net neutrality repeal shows 'contempt' for citizens who speak up
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- That is because there is nothing in our commercial, social, and civic lives that has been untouched by its influence or unmoved by its power," she wrote.
- And they are justifiably concerned that just a few unelected officials could make such vast and far-reaching decisions about the future of the internet," she wrote in her opinion.
- As many as 2 million net neutrality comments — many of which were negative — that were filed to the FCC were fake, according to the New York Attorney General’s office.
FCC chair dances with Pizzagate proponent in video promoting net neutrality repeal
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- The Pizzagate conspiracy theory, which proliferated during the final days of the 2016 presidential race, posits without evidence that high-ranking Democrats were involved in a nonexistent pedophile ring based out of a Washington, D.C. pizzeria.
- "This is not something I’m making up because I’m trying to, you know, put in my fantasy version of what’s going on and interject it into these email scandals.
- Markota said in a message to The Hill that the video in question was about a New Jersey corrections officer being charged in October for possessing child pornography, pointing to an Associated Press report about the matter.
Remember when Comcast was charging Netflix for access to its customers. The US public does. FCC does not.
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- The change represents a fundamental shift in power in the Internet economy that threatens to undermine the competitive market structure that have served Internet users so well for the past two decades.
- But it's hard to see a practical difference between this deal and the kind of tiered access that network neutrality advocates have long feared.
- Because the two backbone providers are roughly the same size, they engage in what's called "settlement-free peering": They exchange traffic with each other with no money changing hands.
FBI Agents Sending Anti-Trump Texts Is Not a Scandal
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- Figure they cancel each other out.’’ Another read, "God, Trump is a loathsome human." "I cannot believe Donald Trump is likely to be an actual, serious candidate for president," read yet another text.
- Peter Strzok and Lisa Page — the two authors of the offending texts, who were reportedly in a romantic relationship — have already been removed from the Trump investigation, but the mere fact they ever had any involvement strikes Republicans as fatally suspect.
- That Trump is ignorant, emotionally fragile, and unable to learn or handle his tasks is the stated and unstated premise of the endless stream of leaks emanating from scores of people who work for him.
New York AG to sue FCC over net neutrality repeal
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- He, along with other state attorneys general and members of Congress, had argued that the agency should delay its vote on scrapping net neutrality because of the millions of fake comments he found that were filed during the FCC’s call for public feedback on the proposal.
- "Today’s new rule would enable ISPs to charge consumers more to access sites like Facebook and Twitter and give them the leverage to degrade high quality of video streaming until and unless somebody pays them more money.
Megathread Discussion: Federal Communications Commission Votes on Net Neutrality Rules
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- Some of these people not getting this need to learn the hard way and I think this is one of the only ways. I'm American and at this point I hope they repeal it and the big ISPs fuck everything up. Then again, part of me thinks they will just blame it on something else anyway, but ya.
- If you didn't personally vote for these people, that doesn't really absolve us as a country.
- We're going to tie this thing up in appeals and law suits until we get Democrats elected, who will then undo the mess.
The FCC has reversed a 2015 rule that could change how you access and pay for internet service
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- "After a two-year detour, one that has seen investment decline, broadband deployments put on hold, and innovative new offerings shelved, it's great to see the FCC returning to this proven regulatory approach." Carr pointed to the free and open internet that existed before the 2015 Open Internet Order as proof the changes will be successful.
- "What saddens me the most today is that the agency that is supposed to protect you is actually abandoning you, but what I am pleased to be able to say today is that the fight to save net neutrality does not end today," Clyburn said.
- Rosenworcel said ISPs will get the power to block websites, throttle content and encourage pay-for-play arrangements with partners while limiting others to "a slow and bumpy road." "Know this: They have the technical ability and business incentive to discriminate and manipulate your internet traffic, and now this agency gives them the legal green light to go ahead and do so.
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