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
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
Whenever I don’t know a lot about something/I need a creative way to talk about a certain topic, I decide to interview everyone’s favorite search engine, Google. In the past, Google has learned me up on things like Terry Richardson’s perverseness and the “God Drug” DMT, but ...read more
Tancred Dickens, a Washington DC resident, installed Verizon Fios in his home last month and to his dismay, got no internet access. After numerous hours spent on the customer service hotline, speaking to tech specialists and multiple visits from servicemen, Dickens still had no ...read more
I drop my phone…kind of a lot. It’s not that I’m clumsy, it’s just that my fingers sometimes don’t like holding on to a digital appendage for almost all of the hours that I’m not asleep or at a keyboard. Every time it happens, there’s a moment of brief panic that sets in as I ...read more
