open internet
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Facebook’s Sneaky Plan To Rule Over America’s Internet Is Scary As Hell
In recent months, Facebook has been secretly meeting with White House officials and wireless carriers about launching its controversial Free Basics program in the United States. The idea of this actually happening isn’t just bad. It’s terrifying.
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Mark Zuckerberg Is Just Plain Bad At Net Neutrality
Mark Zuckerberg means well. Or at least the billionaire says he does in a recent blog post about net neutrality and the Facebook-backed nonprofit Internet.org. Long story short, publishers in India are pulling their content from the Internet.org app over apparent net neutrality violations, and well, Zuck’s reaction is pretty much: ¯_(ツ)_/¯
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Here’s What That Dumb Porn Parody Gets Wrong On Net Neutrality
Net neutrality propaganda is starting to get weird. A brand new interest group showed up this week with a confusing porn parody that seems to equate Title II reclassification of the internet with dragnet surveillance, among other fallacies. It’s a good chance to talk about what the Federal Communications Commission’s new open internet policy is…
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The Grim Future Of A World Without Net Neutrality
A US federal court dealt a deadly blow to net neutrality on Tuesday by striking down the FCC’s open internet rules and practically inviting broadband providers to offer preferential treatment to companies willing to pay for it. It was a deadly blow, but did it really kill net neutrality dead?