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Georgia’s Internet Uprising


The End of the (Wire)Line

Merging Cable Giants Is ‘an Affront to the Public Interest’

How States Are Fighting to Keep Towns From Offering Their Own Broadband

The Scariest Cable Merger Nobody in Washington Is Talking About

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When Comcast tried to merge with Time Warner Cable last year, reaction was swift and negative. Not many people liked the idea of America’s largest and least loved cable company getting any bigger; the deal collapsed after hundreds of thousands of Americans spoke out and federal regulators signaled that they would not let it go forward. Big Cable should have gotten the message. But here we are just a year later with a new cable mega-merger in the works. This time, Charter Communications wants to snatch up Time Warner Cable along with Bright House Networks. Continue reading

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If Presidential Candidates Love the Internet, They Need to Set It Free

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What has the Internet done for presidential candidates lately? In a recent Nation article, civic technology advocate Micah Sifry heralds the Clinton and Sanders campaigns for using the network to organize potential voters in a way “that has never existed before in American politics.” Leveraging the ubiquity of smartphones and Facebook accounts, they’ve managed to reach millions of people outside traditional politics. Continue reading

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Net Neutrality Ruling Finally Rights a Terrible Wrong

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“For the reasons set forth is this opinion, we deny the petitions for review.”  Those were the sweetest words I’ve heard in a long while, as the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit turned down the ridiculous efforts of the big telecom companies to derail the Federal Communications Commission’s open-internet — or “net-neutrality” — rules. Continue reading

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Decoding the Doublespeak of FCC Chairman Pai


The FCC Pretends to Support Net Neutrality and Privacy While Moving to Gut Both

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FCC Chairman Ajit Pai has proposed a plan to eliminate privacy for broadband subscribers. Of course, those protections are tremendously popular, so Chairman Pai and his allies have been forced to pay lip service to preserving them in “some form.”  How do we know it’s just lip service? Because the plan Pai is pushing will destroy the legal foundation for net neutrality. That’s right: if Pai succeeds, the FCC won’t have the legal authority to preserve net neutrality in just about any form. And if he’s read the case law, he knows it. Continue reading

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