Posts tagged fcc rulemaking

Support for Net Neutrality continues to grow among communities of color as the FCC considers rules to protect the open Internet.

Academic associations tend to be politically conservative.

I don't mean that they revere Ronald Reagan and Milton Friedman, though plenty of scholars do. Rather, each group – representing a field's professors and graduate students – tends to evade controversy, rarely taking a public stance on an issue that might divide the membership.

This is the second in a series of posts by Chris Riley, Free Press Policy Counsel, to summarize the primary policy recommendations made in recent comments submitted to the Federal Communications Commission in its open Internet proceeding. Today’s topic: reasonable network management.

The following is a letter to the FCC from a small business owner in support of a strong Net Neutrality rule:

Dear FCC Commissioners,

It feels like any other work day. You drove the same route to work. You ate the same breakfast. Around 11 a.m., you looked longingly out your window imagining yourself swinging in a hammock on a beach. Pretty routine.

Right now in Washington, D.C., policymakers are debating new rules that will shape the future of the Internet, and they need to hear from women.

We have just a week left to tell the Federal Communications Commission (or FCC, the government agency for media) that the Internet is important to women and that we support Net Neutrality.

Internet service providers like Comcast and AT&T want to speed up voice and video applications while downgrading others. And while that might not seem as dramatic as outright blocking or slowing down their competitors’ applications, prioritization can still cause problems for Internet users.