Right now, Americans live in a country where the companies that control our access to the internet face little-to-no oversight. In most states, these companies can throttle your service—or that of, say, a fire department fighting the largest wildfire in… Read More ›
Tag Archive for ‘Net Neutrality’
Stop This California Bill that Bans Affordable Broadband Rules
The California Senate Energy, Utilities, and Communications Committee will soon be the first to consider new and terrible amendments to Assemblymember Quirk-Silva’s A.B. 2749—which is backed by AT&T and other telecommunications interests. The legislation would prohibit the state from implementing… Read More ›
We Finally Have a Federal Fiber Broadband Plan
There is a lot to appreciate in the recently published “Notice of Funding Opportunity” (NOFO) by the Department of Commerce’s National Telecommunications Information Administration (NTIA). It is arguably the first federal government proposal that seeks to promote infrastructure policies focused… Read More ›
What Low-Income People Will Lose with a Deadlocked FCC
When the massive, bipartisan infrastructure package passed Congress, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) was tasked with ensuring equal access to broadband services. That provision is called “Digital Discrimination” and it states, for the first time in federal law, that specifically… Read More ›
Senate Commerce Committee is Letting Big Telecom Hamstring the FCC
Six months have passed since the Biden Administration signed an Executive Order to restore Net Neutrality at the FCC. And three months have passed since the President nominated net neutrality champion Gigi Sohn, a member of the EFF board, to the… Read More ›
California Prevails on Net Neutrality Rules
The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has rejected a legal challenge that attempted to bar enforcement of California’s gold standard state net neutrality law. Major ISPs had insisted that the Federal Communications Commission could define and enforce net neutrality protections,… Read More ›
Victory! Oakland’s City Council Unanimously Approves Communications Choice Ordinance
Oakland residents shared the stories of their personal experience; a broad coalition of advocates, civil society organizations, and local internet service providers (ISPs) lifted their voices; and now the Oakland City Council has unanimously passed Oakland’s Communications Service Provider Choice… Read More ›
EFF at 30: Freeing the Internet, with Net Neutrality Pioneer Gigi Sohn
To commemorate the Electronic Frontier Foundation’s 30th anniversary, we present EFF30 Fireside Chats. This limited series of livestreamed conversations looks back at some of the biggest issues in internet history and their effects on the modern web. To celebrate 30 years… Read More ›
EFF to Ninth Circuit: Don’t Block California’s Pathbreaking Net Neutrality Law
Partnering with the ACLU and numerous other public interest advocates, businesses and educators, EFF has filed an amicus brief urging the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals to uphold a district court’s decision not to block enforcement of SB 822, a… Read More ›
AT&T’s HBO Max Deal Was Never Free
When it launched HBO Max, it was discovered that usage of the service would not count against the data caps of AT&T customers, a practice known as “zero-rating.” This means that people on limited data plans could watch as much HBO… Read More ›