Yesterday, after a month of waiting, California governor Jerry Brown signed SB-822, Senator Scott Wiener's bill restoring net neutrality, into law. Co-sponsored with State Senate Majority Leader Kevin de León, and seen through the House by representatives Miguel Santiago and ...read more
Since he was first elected to the San Francisco Board of Supervisors in 2010, Scott Wiener has proven to be a highly effective legislator, passing bills regulating the environment, housing protections, and the LGBT community. Now, as San Francisco's representative in the ...read more
Last month, California State Senator Scott Wiener introduced bill SB-822, which would extend net neutrality protections throughout the state and strike a major blow to the FCC and its chairman, Ajit Pai. Today, the bill received a hearing from the State's Energy, Utilities, and ...read more
Since repealing net neutrality last December, the FCC has faced significant pushback. In the federal government, Senators have introduced a resolution to overturn the decision. The governments of Montana, New York, and Hawaii have passed laws protecting consumers from ISPs that ...read more
The FCC, led by Chairman Ajit Pai, voted to repeal Net Neutrality last December, a decision that would hand the internet to big service providers, allowing them to have control over the speed of your internet plus charging you extra for sites you already subscribe to like ...read more
Today, the FCC voted in a 3-2 decision to end Net Neutrality, allowing major service providers - Verizon, AT&T, Comcast - to control our internet access. Thanks to this, they'll be able to charge us to access sites we should have for free, like Yelp, or that we already pay to ...read more
Net neutrality is on the chopping block, and if this doesn't scare you because you either A) Don't really know what it is, or B) Heard about it the last time it was under attack but stopped worrying about it because it pulled through, then you better steel your nerves real fast, ...read more
The Banter Long Read: None of us are entirely safe from Silicon Valley tech monsters, and it's only getting worse. Repealing net neutrality will be seen as a watershed moment, and not in a good way... To continue reading this article, please go here. You'll get unrestricted ...read more
Rep. Dana Rohrabacher (R-Calif.) said that he wants a special congressional investigation of Google because of recent a issue with the company's search algorithm that's affecting a single movie. That just so happens to be America: Imagine a World Without Her, (which is a very ...read more
By Justin Elliott: The opponents of a new rule to post political ad information online have opened up another front in a long-running fight, inserting language into an appropriations bill that would bar the Federal Communications Commission from implementing the transparency ...read more
Here, you can add this as the first thing I disagree with the Obama administration on. We have had this deadline for years now. The amount of people who are going to be affected is miniscule - most of the country is on cable or satellite. Of those affected, they go and get the ...read more
