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Study: U.S. Internet Speeds Skyrocket One Year After Net Neutrality Repeal
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2...rality-repeal/
With Deadline to Save Net Neutrality Days Away, Here Are the 18 Democrats Still Siding With Telecom Donors Over Open Internet
"It's clear that these congress members are deep in the pockets of lobbyists at Verizon, Comcast, and AT&T. These telecoms have given them hundreds of thousands of dollars in 'campaign donations.'"
The 18 House Democrats who still haven't signed on to the Congressional Review Act (CRA) measure to restore net neutrality protections are:
Reps.
Brandon Boyle (Pa.),
Robert Brady (Pa.),
G.K. Butterfield (N.C.),
Matt Cartwright (Pa.),
Jim Costa (Calif.),
Henry Cueller (Texas),
Dwight Evans (Pa.),
Vicente Gonzalez (Texas),
Josh Gottheimer (N.J.),
Gene Green (Texas),
Tom O'Halleran (Ariz.),
Brad Schneider(Ill.),
David Scott (Ga.),
Kyrsten Sinema (Ariz.),
Filemon Vela (Texas),
Pete Visclosky (Ind.),
Frederica Wilson (Fla.), and
Mary Gay Scanlon (Pa.).
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The oligarchy corrupts s to give the oligarchy what it wants. And the s are not held accountable.
Study: U.S. Internet Speeds Skyrocket One Year After Net Neutrality Repeal
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2...rality-repeal/
Getting close to Hungary
http://www.speedtest.net/global-index
Hey Chris, in your own words describe the concept of net neutrality.
"Patrick Brennan
✔@ptbrennan11
In the year since net neutrality was repealed,"
asshole with a lie and bow ing tie, obviously a propagandist, immune to the facts.
Net neutrality repeal became effective only 6 months ago, in June 2018
Big investment / total implementation by the oligarchy, BigNetwork division, to fleece Internet users even more, is going slow because ...
Here's everything you need to know about net neutrality on the anniversary of its repeal
The rules may be gone, but the battle continues
https://www.cnet.com/news/the-net-ne...-need-to-know/
No doubt BigNetwork is pouring $Ms into knocking down any and all resistance.
Yet again, AS ALWAYS, the oligarchy pays the political s to pass/repeal legislation, regs that enrich the oligarchy and fleece The People.
network speed is up? starting from shameful, for-profit low and still not fast enough
Ajit Pai thanks Congress for helping him kill net neutrality rules
Democratic effort to reverse repeal fell short as Congressional session ended.
Ajit Pai today celebrated a victory in his ongoing quest to prevent the US government from enforcing net neutrality rules.
The Pai-led Federal Communications Commission repealed Obama-era net neutrality rules, but
the repeal could have been reversed by Congress if it acted before the end of its session.
Democrats won a vote to reverse the repeal in the Senate but weren't able to get enough votes in the House of Representatives before time ran out.
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...trality-rules/
Do you assholes really think BigNetwork, who makes govt policy, had any objective other than More For Them, Less For Us?
Last edited by boutons_deux; 01-02-2019 at 08:22 PM.
Fake FCC Comments Linked to Ex-Trump Campaign Director's Org, Boosted By Roger Stone
An organization run by a former Trump campaign statewide director is
being investigated by the New York attorney general’s office for its role in
the submission of potentially hundreds of thousands of fraudulent comments to the Federal Communications Commission during the agency’s 2017 efforts to rollback Obama-era net neutrality rules.
Americans whose names were attached to fraudulent FCC comments linked to the ex-Trump campaign staffer confirmed during a series of interviews that their iden ies had been stolen.
What’s remained unreported until now is the source of the
37 identical Sharpsburg comments, which match those submitted on behalf of more than 300,000 Americans nationwide.
That comment, which rails against Google, its former chairman Eric Schmidt, and “global billionaires like George Soros,” was authored by a group known as Free Our Internet, according to a page on its website, which has since been deleted.
Free Our Internet’s campaign against net neutrality, which it presents as a conspiracy by “liberal globalists to take over our Internet,” was first announced in a now-deleted press release on the website of
Raven Strategies, a political consultancy whose client list includes, among others, Donald Trump for President.
Christie-Lee McNally, the president of Raven Strategies and the executive director of Free Our Internet,
Her organization,
Free Our Internet, is also the subject of one of 14 subpoenas
issued in October by the New York attorney general’s office, which, like the Department of Justice, is currently investigating widespread accounts of iden y theft related to the FCC’s net neutrality process.
Out of the more than 22 million comments submitted to the FCC about net neutrality in 2017,
investigators believe that as many as 9.53 million involved the use of stolen iden ies.
the focus has, until now, been on larger and more prominently known organizations, such as the
Center for Individual Freedom (CFIF), a decades-old dark-money group founded by former tobacco industry executives to, initially, combat government restrictions on smoking.
with funding from Republican figures like Karl Rove,
CFIF lobbies to overturn FCC rules and policies disapproved of by the telecommunications industry.
The comments it contributed about net neutrality are now being scrutinized by both state and federal law enforcement agencies for any trace of stolen iden ies.
https://gizmodo.com/fake-fcc-comment...ign=2019-02-01
FCC Faces Off in Net Neutrality Lawsuit Against Consumer Advocates and Internet Giants
Oral arguments began Friday in the case of Mozilla v. FCC, a lawsuit brought by a wide range of advocacy groups and trade organizations representing some of the nation’s largest internet companies, which
all seek to vacate the vote to repeal net neutrality pushed through by the Federal Communications Commission in late 2017.
At the heart of the case is the question of whether the FCC was within its rights to overturn the Open Internet Order, which it passed in 2015 under the Obama administration.
The order implemented rules against blocking, throttling, or paid prioritization—so-called fast lanes—by mobile and fixed broadband providers.
It accomplished this by reclassifying broadband as a “telecommunications service” under
le II of the 1934 Communications Act,
and in so granted itself the authority to regulate broadband service nationwide.
The case is brought before U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia,
The court previously upheld the 2015 Open Internet Order, finding it lawful and justified by the arguments of the net neutrality advocates.
he groups opposing the FCC include a hodgepodge of tech companies and consumer advocacy groups, as well as state and local officials—among them:
the Mozilla Corporation;
Etsy;
Free Press;
Public Knowledge;
the National Hispanic Media Coalition;
the Open Technology Ins ute;
the Center for Democracy & Technology, and others.
Twenty-two states and the District of Columbia have also joined the pe ioners.
https://gizmodo.com/fcc-faces-off-in...+%28Gizmodo%29
Ajit Pai Really Wants to Screw With Rural Native Residents' Internet Access
A DC District Court judge on Friday struck down an FCC ruling that cut internet subsidies for thousands of Native American families living on rural sections of reservations.
The FCC’s initial decision to gut the Tribal Lifeline program drastically limited the ability of rural reservation dwellers to obtain internet and cell phone service.
Like the broadband shortage currently facing much of rural America,
the companies that provide phone and internet services to Native nations ignored rural Native peoples simply
because they realized there wasn’t much profit to be made building infrastructure for a small number of people living long distances from one another.
FCC Chairman Ajit Pai—an idiotic shill in thesimplest of terms—made the decision in November 2017 to vote
to cut the subsidy for Natives living in urban areas and for Natives in rural areas
The FCC was attempting to force Natives to completely rely on what are known as facilities-based providers, which, to avoid getting too deep in the weeds, basically means A Big Company.
After both sides stated their case,
the court ruled on Friday in favor of the tribes and roasted Pai’s FCC.
could all be rendered moot if Pai gets his way and cuts all resellers out of the Lifeline program,
because,
when you’re an asshole with all the power to throttle and price gouge the poor, why the not.
https://splinternews.com/ajit-pai-re...ign=2019-02-04
shill? asshole? nope, BigNetwork
Appeals court overturns FCC's attempt to throw 70 percent of low-incomepeople off broadband
A federal appeals court has overturned an attempt by Ajit Pai and his FCC to make it far more difficult for tribal residents to get subsidies needed to afford broadband internet access through the Lifeline program.
Last Friday’s decision overturns a move begun by Pai to gut the program a little over a year ago. Pai talking loudly about wanting to bridge the digital divide—
the growing chasm between the haves and have-nots in access to broadband services—
while trying to get rid of the only programs helping to bridge that gap.
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/201...detail=emailLL
Last edited by boutons_deux; 02-14-2019 at 09:25 PM.
Cell companies lied to their customers about coverage, and the government believed them
The FCC is one step closer to acknowledging they have no idea who does and doesn’t have cell reception in America.
https://theoutline.com/post/7066/the...=1&zi=c4n2632v
.. FCC doesn't care, it's Repug MISgovernance.
tldnr:
outcome-changing fraudulent voting in the net neutrality has been found
the company(ies) responsible for the fraud have been identified
FCC refuses to help
===============
How an Investigation of Fake FCC Comments Snared a Prominent D.C. Media Firm
https://gizmodo.com/how-an-investiga...ign=2019-02-21
Last edited by boutons_deux; 02-21-2019 at 08:12 PM.
Playing Whack-a-Mole With Broadband Industry Shills
This industry money has turned far too many decision-makers in Washington against the interests of the people they’re supposed to represent, people who support Net Neutrality in large numbers
So many Op-Eds and letters to the editor that oppose the Save the Internet Act are written by people with financial ties to the broadband industry.
And far too few of these ties are disclosed in the media.
The latest mole to emerge takes the form of a misleading letter to the editor in the New York Times. Its author is
Ev Ehrlich, who’s affiliated with the ESC Company and the so-called Progressive Policy Ins ute.
But you wouldn’t know that from reading his letter in the Times, as neither he nor the newspaper acknowledges these ties.
It’s a concerning oversight because both of these organizations have financial relationships with the phone and cable lobby, which is doing whatever it can to torpedo the Save the Internet Act.
Public polling shows overwhelming bipartisan support for the Save the Internet Act’s legal approach. A 2018 University of Maryland poll found that
86 percent of voters opposed the FCC’s repeal of the le II Net Neutrality rules, including
82 percent of Republicans and
90 percent of Democrats.
https://www.commondreams.org/views/2...?cd-origin=rss
Repug FCC/Pai killing net neutrality backed by $100Ms from the telecom lobby over the preferences of the huge majority telecom's victims exemplifies how the oligarchy's $Bs now run the country.
The Princeton study's conclusions that America is an oligarchy are fully supported:
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journ...D4893B382B992B
Last edited by boutons_deux; 04-04-2019 at 10:32 AM.
White House aides to recommend Trump veto net neutrality measure
White House aides would recommend President Donald Trump veto a bill to restore landmark net neutrality protections if reinstated by Congress,
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-u...litics+News%29
FCC Under Fire For Putting ALEC Rep On 'Consumer' Advisory Board
In 2017, FCC head Ajit Pai came under fire for filling a new "Broadband Deployment Advisory Council" (BDAC) task force with oodles of industry representatives, but few if any consumer representatives or local town or city officials.
Not too surprisingly the panel saw a significant amount of controversy, several protest resignations, and the arrest of a one-time panel chair for fraud,
but the panel itself never actually accomplished much of anything to address the problem it was created for.
Fast forward to last week, and the FCC has once again found itself under fire for
appointing a member of the The American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) to the agency's "consumer advisory" panel:
"A committee that advises the Federal Communications Commission on consumer-related matters now includes a representative of the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC),
which lobbies against municipal broadband, net neutrality, and other consumer protection measures.
FCC Chairman Ajit Pai announced his Consumer Advisory Committee's new makeup on Wednesday.
One new member is Jonathon Hauenschild, director of ALEC's Task Force on Communications and Technology.
He and other Consumer Advisory Committee will serve two-year terms.
The most obvious problem is that ALEC is directly employed by the telecom sector
to undermine and eliminate consumer protections.
https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20...ry-board.shtml
From an email from [email protected]:
"Awful news:
47 House Democrats, including 13 from California,
just sent a letter to Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi,
urging her to give up on strong net neutrality legislation."
My guess is that they have all been purchased by BigNetwork
The latest FCC plan to boost US broadband? Prevent compe ion in apartment blocks
Ajit Pai turns logic on its head while doing Big Cable's bidding
the former Verizon lawyer said he would introduce a new proposal for "multiple tenant environments" or MTEs – basically apartment blocks and office buildings – that would "enable the millions of Americans who live and work in MTEs to have greater choice when it comes to broadband."
Pai announced that the
FCC would specifically target a provision by the city of San Francisco that requires the wiring in MTEs to be shared so any ISP can offer their services to occupants.
The ordinance is "not consistent with federal policy," Pai argued, calling the Californian seaside city's approach "an outlier."
The ordinance was specifically designed to prevent exclusive arrangements between building owners and a single ISP but, according to Pai, is "a policy which deters broadband deployment."
What the ordinance actually deters, policy experts were quick to point out, is the ability of giants like AT&T and Comcast to carve up large markets and prevent compe ion.
Pai's argument is "utterly ridiculous," he added.
That view was shared by others, one of whom called it
"the most contradictory statement I have ever read in my professional career."
Another called it "a petty proposition that will only interfere with deployments."
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/06/19/fcc_broadband_compe ion/
Pai continues to up, always in favor of BigCorp
Ajit Pai's Silence on Phone Tracking Abuse Is Further Eroding Faith in His Competence
The Federal Communication Commission’s investigation into the unauthorized sale of Americans’ location data is now in its second year and still, no one outside of FCC Chairman Ajit Pai’s office knows a thing about it. On
Capitol Hill, faith in his ability to properly handle these apparent violations has reached an all-time low.
Congresswoman Lori Trahan ... a cause to take to the House floor yesterday and call out Pai’s “lack of enforcement and transparency.”
“Location data has been sold through a supply chain with little oversight, often leading to this information ending up in the hands of bad actors,” she said.
“For just a few dollars, stalkers and predatory abusers can buy geolocation information to prey on unsuspecting victims—a reality that should set off alarm bells nationwide.”
“Every day that the FCC delays reporting their findings from this investigation puts consumers’ personal security at greater risk,”
the apparently unauthorized use of location data to a crime scene an hour east of Dallas, Texas, where two bounty hunters illegally posing as law enforcement officials had exchanged fire with a suspect on the run, resulting in the deaths of all three.
“Abusers and stalkers often exploit technology to gain access to their victims’ location through GPS tracking and other cell phone apps, forcing victims to get new phones or wipe their current ones when they are trying to leave these dangerous situations,”
accused Pai of intentionally mishandling the investigation—as evidenced mainly by his ongoing refusal to share do entation that would shed light on its progress.
“[F]or too long the FCC has been silent about this security mess. The agency hasn’t said anything about what is going on and how any of us with a mobile phone might be at risk. That’s unacceptable,”
https://gizmodo.com/ajit-pais-silence-on-phone-location-abuse-is-further-er-1835921741
Ajit Pai’s new gift to cable companies would kill local fees and rules
Cities can't use cable authority to charge broadband fees
Ajit Pai is continuing his multi-year battle against local broadband regulation
with a plan that would stop cities and towns from using their authority over cable TV networks to regulate Internet access.
Chairman Pai's proposal, scheduled for a vote at the Federal Communications Commission's August 1 meeting,
would also limit the fees that municipalities can charge cable companies.
Cable industry lobbyists have urged the FCC to stop cities and towns from assessing fees on the revenue cable companies make from broadband.
Pai's proposal would "Prohibit LFAs [local franchising authorities] from using their video franchising authority to regulate most non-cable services, including broadband Internet service, offered over cable systems by in bent cable operators."
FCC lacks power to preempt, group says
Public Knowledge argues that the FCC can't preempt local broadband regulations because the Pai-led FCC gave up its own authority over broadband. The
FCC did that when it reclassified broadband as an information service as part of its repeal of net neutrality rules, Public Knowledge said.
"Having classified broadband as an information service,
the Commission has determined that it is an unregulated service that it lacks regulatory authority over,"
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2019/07/ajit-pai-has-yet-another-plan-to-stop-local-broadband-regulation/
Pai was nominated to protect/enrich cable industry as it extracts more $10Bs from cable subscribers.
anti-states-rights pro BigCorp oligopoly REGULATING by the 'regulation-hating" Repug kakistocracy
Trump’s FCC votes to end local governments’ ability to regulate and charge cable broadband industry
On Thursday, Trump’s FCC voted to stop local municipalities and governments from regulating cable-networked broadband. The decision also limits what can be charged of cable companies.
The decision to push forward with this dubious legal move on the part of Ajit Pai, a former Verizon lawyer,
The fundamental legal contradiction on the part of the Republican FCC is that
in order to do away with net neutrality protections
they have argued that broadband is an information service that the FCC cannot regulate.
In so doing, they cannot tell local municipalities how to regulate those services in regards to the public good.
"Comb through the text of this decision.
You will not find a single commitment made to providing more broadband service in remote communities.
There is no enforceable obligation to expand broadband capacity.
There is no agreement that any savings from today's action is pushed into new network deployment."
local municipalities that use their abilities to fund essential infrastructure for education and government through franchise agreements are now in jeopardy,
"Free or discounted service to cash-strapped schools,
provision of critical I-Nets,
discounts to vulnerable communities—
all of these franchise terms advance the public interest and are a small imposition given the value received by providers in franchise negotiations."
Every single time conservative elements of our society proclaim that
deregulating big business operations, like telecommunications,
will trickle down and magically turn into consumer benefits,
they are wrong.
They are so wrong.
Every time.
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2019/8/2/1876184/-Trump-s-FCC-votes-to-end-local-governments-ability-to-regulate-and-charge-cable-broadband-industry
Would a Dem president reverse the above?
would a Dem president rule, overriding state govt, that municipalities CAN build their own networks?
Would a Dem president re-install net neutrality?
Comcast Wireless Joins Verizon In Charging You More For HD Video
One of the more subtle assaults on net neutrality has been
the slow but steady introduction of arbitrary, often unnecessary restrictions mobile carriers will then charge you to get around.
Verizon has also banned 4K video from its network unless you pay more for 5G (which isn't widely available).
The company also now throttles all video on its "unlimited" data plans,
charging consumers even more if they want to view content in HD as the originating service intended.
Comcast has now followed Verizon's lead, and its new wireless service
will also now ban HD videoon its unlimited data plans unless you pony up an adidtional $20 per month.
The company technically began throttling all video to 480p on its wireless network a week ago, but
only just last week announced that users would now be charged more if they actually wanted to watch video in HD:
"Xfinity Mobile's unlimited data plan costs $45 per line per month,
but video streams are generally limited to 480p resolution.
Comcast yesterday announced a new $20-per-month HD Pass "for an upgrade to HD video resolution on Unlimited lines (720p on phone and 1080p on tablets)."
That raises the monthly price to $65."
The problem with these efforts begins with the fact that
Americans already pay some of the highest prices for 4G mobile data in the developed world.
In exchange,
they get mobile 4G broadband service that ranks somewhere around 30th worldwide in terms of speed.
Studies also show that
US wireless provider video quality is similarly some of the worst in the developed world
due to many of the nickel-and-diming, erroneous restrictions being placed on mobile lines.
https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20190805/07200442721/comcast-wireless-joins-verizon-charging-you-more-hd-video.shtml
Wireless Carrier Throttling of Online Video Is Pervasive
U.S. wireless carriers have long said they may slow video traffic on their networks to avoid congestion and bottlenecks. But new research shows the throttling happens pretty much everywhere all the time.
Researchers from Northeastern University and University of Massachusetts Amherst conducted more than 650,000 tests in the U.S. and found that from early 2018 to early 2019,
AT&T Inc. throttled Netflix Inc. 70% of the time and Google’s YouTube service 74% of the time.
But AT&T didn’t slow down Amazon.com Inc.’s Prime Video at all.
T-Mobile US Inc. throttled Amazon Prime Video in about 51% of the tests, but didn’t throttle Skype and barely touched Vimeo
"They are doing it all the time, 24/7, and it’s not based on networks being overloaded,"
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-08-19/wireless-carrier-throttling-of-online-video-is-pervasive-study
Study Proves The FCC's Core Justification for Killing Net Neutrality Was Fals
The biggest study yet finds Ajit Pai’s repeated claims that net neutrality hurt broadband investment have
never been true.
A new study has found the FCC’s primary justification for repealing net neutrality was indisputably false.
FCC’s net neutrality rules, passed in 2015 ... dramatically stifled broadband investment across the United States.
Repeal the rules, Pai declared, and US broadband investment would explode.
Pai’s claims were patently false.
the passage and repeal of the rules had no meaningful impact on broadband investment.
“The results of the paper are clear and should be both unsurprising and uncontroversial,” The researchers said.
“The key finding is there were no impacts on telecommunication industry investment from the net neutrality policy changes.
Neither the 2010 or 2015 US net neutrality rule changes had any causal impact on telecommunications investment.”
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/k...lity-was-false
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