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Net Neutrality’s Day in Court

The FCC is bringing net neutrality to court today in another attempt to secure regulation on why and how internet service providers can manipulate the access they provide.

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Obama Admin. Approves Plan to Make Prison Phone Calls More Affordable

In a controversial vote Thursday, the Federal Communications Commission approved a plan to “Ensuring Just, Reasonable, & Fair Rates for Inmate Calling” and would place a cap on the amount of money that communications companies charge convicts to make phone calls in jails and prisons across the country.

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Bay Area Job Growth Slows as Net Neutrality Bites

As the effects of Net Neutrality have begun to appear in the tech industry, California’s Employment Development Department reports that the government created more jobs than the private sector did in the Bay Area in August.

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Cord-Cutting and Cable-Bill-Cutting Are All the Rage

The Wall Street Journal recently published a strange piece called “Why Cable TV Beats the Internet, For Now.” Despite pay-TV losing 1.4 million customers last year, it seems the WSJ is device-challenged and unwilling to embrace the obvious future dominance of Internet streaming media. And the war to discount your cost for pay-TV is heating up.

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Feds Acknowledge Power to Regulate Internet Rates Under Net Neutrality

Democrat members of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) are now admitting that new net neutrality regulations may allow them to determine pricing for Internet service, an admission that’s seen as “a vindication to critics of the new Internet rules, who have long warned that the agency’s powers will give it unprecedented control over the Web,” according to a report from The Hill.

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Best “Net Neutrality” Silicon Valley Money Can Buy

The hard-Left publication The Nation and their allies advocated for the FCC’s “Net Neutrality” passage to regulate and tax the Internet as “People Power”. But in politics, it is always best to “follow the money.” For 2014, lobbying expenditures by computer/Internet companies hit $139.5 million. The Left likes to talk about “People Power”, but Silicon Valley lobbying cash is “Corporate Power.”

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FCC Commish: New Regs Will Have ‘Severe’ Tax Impacts

FCC Commissioner Ajit Pai (R) said that new FCC regulations will make “state, property, and other taxes go up” on providers and the “immediate effects in some of the taxation are going to be severe” on Friday’s “Bloomberg West.” “Decisions

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Verizon Mocks FCC Decision with Antiquated Letter

Verizon, prepared for the FCC decision to embrace “net-neutrality” rules on Thursday, had a ready response once the decision became final. The company issued a press release mocking the new standard by dating the press release February 26, 1934, and titling it, “Title II Regulations a ‘Net’ Loss for Innovation and Consumers: FCC’s ‘Throwback Thursday’ Move Imposes 1930s Rules on the Internet.”