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Internet consolidation via titans like Apple, Google, and Facebook opened the door to censorship
The artificial crime of ‘hate speech’ had to be invented because more direct and traditional methods of enforcing certain goals yielded little result…
Apple offers Safari users safer browsing with USB security key support
Apple’s latest preview version of Safari features support…
Worldwide internet speeds got 30 percent faster in 2017
Internet download speeds grew more than 30 percent this year for both wireline and mobile connections…
Apple’s iPhone 8 is technically a gigabit LTE phone, kinda
At first blush, iFixit’s tech autopsy on the iPhone 8 didn’t reveal anything particularly notable…
Google Fiber: Doomed from the start
Google is dumping the idea of fiber…
iOS 10 and macOS Sierra: Networking for the modern Internet
There are some things that developers can do to make their apps work better over the network…
The death of ‘Internet’ – and ‘Web’
The folks responsible for the entries in the Associated Press Stylebook have announced that…
U.S. FCC proposes stricter privacy rules for Internet service providers
You should be able to decide what data your broadband or wireless provider shares with marketers. Period…
Pope Francis to hold rare tech industry meeting with Google’s Eric Schmidt
The 79-year-old pontiff is clearly not naive when it comes to the power of technology. The internet, he once said, is a ‘gift from God’ because of its ability to offer…
Major internet backbone company is about to make a lot of websites load much faster
In February, web engineers released a way to move information over the web. Today, the protocol is taking a big step forward…
Dish Network urges FCC to kill Charter-Time Warner Cable megamerger
Dish Network Corp said on Tuesday it filed a petition asking the Federal Communications Commission…
Hats off to Web advertising – no, really
What if everyone is wrong about ads?
Apple to iOS devs: IPv6-only cell service is coming soon, get your apps ready
Because IPv6 support is so critical…
EU to probe Google, Amazon, other US sites over data use and search
Brussels is set to widen its front against US tech companies just two weeks…
Comcast plans to drop Time Warner Cable takeover
Comcast Corp. is planning to walk away from its proposed $45 billion takeover of Time Warner Cable…
U.S. DOJ likely to block Comcast’s bid to buy Time Warner Cable
Staff attorneys at the U.S. Justice Department’s antitrust division…
Only 40% of world’s population has ever gone online
By early 2015, 3 billion people around the world will be online…
FCC chairman proposes to regulate ISP’s under Title II
Federal Communications Commission Chairman Tom Wheeler…
U.S. congressional Republicans’ bill aims to head off Obama’s so-called ‘net neutrality’ plan
U.S. congressional Republicans on Friday proposed legislation that would set…
U.S. Congressional proposal offers Internet rules of the road
For the past decade, a debate has raged in Washington and across the country…
Obama backs government-run broadband networks
Obama’s call for more cities and towns to create their own broadband Internet services…
U.S. FCC says it will vote on so-called ‘net neutrality’ in February
Republican lawmakers are expected to introduce legislation this month to preempt any FCC rule on the subject…
What Steve Jobs got right and wrong about the web
Even a man as visionary as Steve Jobs is going to have his hits and misses…
FCC commissioner accuses Netflix of creating fast lanes at the expense of competitors
Ajit Pai of the FCC today accused Netflix of ‘secur[ing] ‘fast lanes’ for its own content’…
FCC hopes its rules for so-called ‘net neutrality’ survive inevitable litigation
The chairman of the Federal Communications Commission said Friday…
The secret life of passwords
With so little privacy, passwords may soon be tomorrow’s eight-track player…
Inside the dispute over so-called ‘net neutrality’ and why it’s important to Apple users
At the heart of the current net neutrality debate is…
Mark Cuban on so-called net neutrality: ‘The government will fsck the Internet up’
Entrepreneur, NBA team owner, and Shark Tank star Mark Cuban has this to say…
Obama-appointed FCC chairman distances himself from Obama on so-called ‘net neutrality’
FCC Chairman Wheeler worries that the president’s more drastic approach is too simplistic and naive…
What does so-called ‘net neutrality’ mean for Apple?
Apple is spending money to connect to ISP’a access points…
AT&T to pause fiber investment until net neutrality rules are decided
AT&T will pause investments to bring fiber connections to 100 cities…
There’s no one to root for in the debate over so-called ‘net neutrality’
Finding it hard to understand the ‘net neutrality’ debate?
U.S. FCC plays Russian Roulette with so-called ‘net neutrality’
With its unlawful and backwards interpretation of partitioning the Internet, the FCC has little if any chance of winning in court…
U.S. House Speaker John Boehner: Republicans will continue efforts to stop misguided scheme to regulate the Internet
It’s disappointing, but not surprising, that the Obama administration continues to disregard the people’s will…
TechFreedom: Obama cynically exploits confusion over Title II, misses opportunity to lead on legislative deal
Obama’s statement is simply a cynical political ploy…
Obama wants FCC to regulate the Internet; Cruz calls it ‘Obamacare for the Internet’
Obama has called on federal regulators to toughen proposed net-neutrality rules…
Verizon: We will sue U.S. FCC over ‘net neutrality’
The FCC has the opportunity to create Net Neutrality rules that…
Number of websites surge past one billion milestone
The number of websites has burst above one billion and is growing apace…
Forget about Net Neutrality; the Net isn’t neutral now, nor will it ever be
Nearly everyone, it seems, wants to prevent the FCC from allowing some companies…
Is the FCC the wrong agency to handle net neutrality?
In a hearing Friday, members of the House Judiciary Committee grilled current and former federal officials…
Verizon to Netflix: Cease and desist on messages blaming slow streaming on Verizon’s broadband service
Verizon Communications Inc on Thursday demanded that Netflix…