The Senate voted on Wednesday to save the FCC’s net neutrality rules. Despite the Senate’s best efforts to have the rules reinstated, the bill has little chance of passing the Republican-controlled House. Democrats used a little-known legislative mechanism known as the Congressional Review Act (CRA) to force a vote.
The expiration of Net Neutrality rules — which regulated broadband cable as if it were a rotary phone service — is set for June 11.
Fred Campbell stated that the “Safe Harbor” protection for Facebook and Google allows social media giants to censor at will.
The California Senate passed a super “Net Neutrality” law just as the Obama-era regulation of the Internet is set to be expire on April 23.
A new report from telecommunications research firm Analysys Mason judges the United States to be in third place for the race to establish a nationwide 5G wireless network, lagging behind China and South Korea but just ahead of Japan.
The FCC unanimously voted to adopt a measure that prohibits U.S. wireless companies from buying equipment from companies seen as posing a national security threat by using funds from a federal program aimed at supporting service in rural areas.
T-Mobile has agreed to pay a $40 million fine for using banned “false ringtones,” especially in rural areas to “give the impression faulty calls were actually getting through.”
Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg claimed that Facebook would not exist without net neutrality. However, the company was founded before any net neutrality rules existed.
Fred Campbell, a former Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Wireless Bureau Chief, told Breitbart News Sunday in an exclusive interview how “Conservatism itself is at stake” thanks to Google and Facebook’s censorship.
Roslyn Layton, a visiting scholar for the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), told Breitbart News Saturday that “Google and Facebook have such an oligopoly” on advertising and that “we need to stop regulating Facebook’s competitors.”
Former FCC Commissioner Robert McDowell told Breitbart that the Facebook privacy scandal “is a watershed moment for how people will perceive privacy.”
Rick Manning, president of Americans for Limited Government, cautioned Americans during an interview on Wednesday with Rebecca Mansour and Joel Pollak, co-hosts of SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Tonight, warning against naive assumptions of good faith regarding China’s trade policies with the U.S.
Treasury Department officials are crafting plans to ban Chinese companies from investing in certain technology sectors, such as semiconductors and 5G wireless communications, according to a Bloomberg News report.
Ajit Pai singled out the national security concern posed by “certain communications equipment providers” and in particular “certain Chinese communications equipment providers.”
Congress and the American public should reject the resisters’ cynical ploy to regulate our broadband infrastructure under the false pretense that Washington must save the Internet.
The conservative activist grassroots group FreedomWorks engaged in nearly 300,000 online actions urging Republican senators to preserve Internet freedom during its “Digital Day of Action.”
The NRA gave FCC Chairman Ajit Pai its Charlton Heston Courage Under Fire award at CPAC for saving the Internet.
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) will publish its net neutrality order repeal on Thursday, which will allow activists to sue the agency to attempt to block the agency’s “Restoring Internet Freedom Order” from taking effect.
The Hawaiian Emergency Management Agency has fired the individual responsible for the false ballistic missile alert issued last month, and the state has promised to fix the system.
Death threats, harassment, and security concerns continue to raise questions about security for EPA administrator Scott Pruitt.
The FCC made public its investigation into a false missile alert in Hawaii earlier this month as news breaks employee responsible is fired.
AT&T called for an “Internet Bill of Rights” and argued that Facebook and Google should also be subjected to rules that would prevent unfair censorship on their platforms.
Burger King has released a video criticizing the FCC’s repeal of net neutrality by attempting to explain the issue through their hamburgers.
There is a growing drumbeat for tech regulation coming from the establishment, the latest example being Salesforce.com CEO Mark Benioff’s call, made at Davos, for the world to “wake up to the threat from tech giants.” But what kind of regulation are they looking for?
Days after Hawaiian officials issued a false alert that a ballistic missile was heading to the islands, Japanese officials made the same error.
Democrats claimed they have a 50-vote majority in the Senate to override the FCC’s repeal of net neutrality.
Federal Communications Commission Chairman Ajit Pai has canceled his scheduled appearance at the Consumer Electronics Show, reportedly due to death threats.
Police arrested a Los Angeles man on Friday after he made a revenge prank call — a “swatting” — to police in Kansas about a potential hostage incident that resulted in the police killing an innocent man.
Sinclair Broadcasting Group, America’s largest television station owner, announced Friday that they will join a slew of other large U.S. companies in using the savings from the just-passed Tax Cuts and Jobs Act to give employees bonuses.
California’s Democrat-controlled legislature is again leading the so-called “resistance” to President Donald Trump — this time, by planning to reinstate Net Neutrality rules repealed by FCC’s Republican majority last Thursday.
In the wake of the Federal Communications Commission’s vote to repeal Net Neutrality, officials and representatives across the country are mobilizing to fight the decision.
YouTube took down a video featuring FCC chairman Ajit Pai making the case for Title II repeal earlier today, only to restore it several hours later.
The FCC has repealed Net Neutrality in a 3 – 2 vote, and the world is about to end. Or so you’d think, if you believed left-wing Twitter.
Hollywood stars took to social media Thursday to denounce the Federal Communications Commission, Chairman Ajit Pai, and the agency’s vote to repeal Obama-era net neutrality regulations, restoring what the FCC chief called the restoration of a “free and open Internet.”
OUT Magazine and GLAAD both claimed on Thursday that the repeal of net neutrality is a “blow to minority communities, particularly LGBTQ web users.”
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) passed the FCC’s “Restoring Internet Freedom Order” on Thursday, which will repeal the agency’s 2015 net neutrality regulation.
The FCC will repeal net neutrality on Thursday, much to the dismay of Silicon Valley and Democrats and to the cheer of conservatives.
Over 20 of the most influential minds in technology have joined together to urge Ajit Pai and the Federal Communications Commission to stop the repeal of net neutrality.
Comcast memory-holed its promise to not charge for priority “fast lanes” for Internet sites and services when the FCC announced plans to repeal net neutrality.
FCC Chair Ajit Pai said Tuesday that Facebook, Google, and Twitter want net neutrality to “cement their dominance in the Internet economy.”
