Title II
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Internet/Telecom
Net Neutrality: The Media Lies – Then Polls On The Results Of Their Lies
by Seton Motley December 6, 2017The Donald Trump Administration’s Federal Communications Commission (FCC) announced they on December 14 would be rightly, reasonably undoing the Barack Obama Administration FCC’s ridiculous, regressive Internet power grab.
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Budgets/TaxesInternet/Telecom
FCC: Stand Strong and Implement Sound Internet Policy
by Bartlett Cleland November 28, 2017The Federal Communications Commission just released its plan to restore internet freedom, which will bring back the historical light-touch framework that instilled regulatory certainty and propelled over a trillion dollars in investments in better broadband services.
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GovernmentInternet/Telecom
Debunking Edge Competition Myth Predicate in FCC Title II Broadband Order – FCC Comments
by Scott Cleland August 23, 2017In 2015, the FCC’s Title II Open Internet broadband order was predicated on a demonstrably false central competitive premise: that the Internet’s edge was competitive while the broadband Internet core was not competitive. The facts prove the opposite.
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FeaturedInternet/Telecom
HBO’s John Oliver Needs a ‘Net Neutrality’ Reality Check
by Scott Cleland May 22, 2017John Oliver won’t have the same effect he had in 2014.
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FeaturedInternet/Telecom
FCC Chairman Pai’s Brilliant Title II Net Neutrality Checkmate Strategy
by Scott Cleland May 2, 2017Net neutrality proponents who summarily dismiss any potential for Congress to resolve net neutrality with a legislative compromise, might want to rethink that heroic assumption after closely reading the Pai-FCC’s Title II NPRM.
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Internet/Telecom
Six Definitions that are Preventing Consensus on Net Neutrality
by Scott Cleland April 30, 2017Why is net neutrality, the controversial notion that all Internet traffic should be treated the same, so difficult to resolve? An underappreciated reason is each side defines the core terms of net neutrality very differently.
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Internet/Telecom
Why Title II Net Neutrality Defenders Fear a Pro-Consumer Ajit Pai FCC
by Scott Cleland February 26, 2017Defenders of the previous FCC’s Title II Open Internet Order appear afraid to have a free and open discussion about how Title II net neutrality affects American consumers.
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Unlike the Federal Communications Commission’s previous head, new FCC Chairman Ajit Pai is putting consumers first, not net neutrality.
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Economics
How Trump and Promise of FCC Reform are Already Spurring Economic Growth
by Scott Cleland December 11, 2016The growth starts now.
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When one’s actions demonstrably create a worse rather than better outcome net-net, like the FCC’s new Title II ISP privacy policy does, others would justifiably consider it a mistake.
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FeaturedInternet/Telecom
Can “Bright Line” FCC Title II Discrimination Bans Be Just and Reasonable?
by Scott Cleland February 12, 2016Net neutrality absolutists are overreaching yet again in their push for a practical FCC ban of ISP zero rating offers under the FCC’s case-by-case “General Conduct Standard” review, by claiming violations of the “bright-line rules” in the FCC’s 2015 Open Internet Order against blocking, throttling and paid prioritization.
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FeaturedInternet/Telecom
Why FCC Title II Telephone Privacy Rules Can’t Work with an Open Internet
by Scott Cleland January 30, 2016In arbitrarily applying Title II telecommunications rules to only the ISP half of Internet communications, while politically exempting the entire edge half of Internet communications in its Open Internet order, the FCC has ensured that information that was proprietary and controllable in the closed telephone world becomes public and uncontrollable in the open Internet world.