The FCC will take the next step towards ending net neutrality on Thursday, May 18th.
On Thursday, the FCC will vote on whether to solicit public input on the proposal to undo the rules, the first step in the process of rolling them back.
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If you've ever browsed the internet, you've inevitably viewed things you wouldn't want to admit. Maybe you inadvertently clicked the wrong link and ended up at a website you never meant to view, or clicked on your trusted friend's link in an e-mail that turned out to be very NSFW (it's so commonplace, there's even an acronym for it, Not Safe For Work).
In another move that increases the power of internet service providers, such as Comcast, Time Warner, AT&T, Verizon, and others, the Federal Communications Commission paused the roll-out of previously approved regulations requiring companies to inform their customers about what information is collected about them and how it is being used.
The newly appointed Republican chairman of the Federal Communications Commission is moving to scale back the implementation of sweeping privacy rules for Internet providers passed last year.
Newly installed FCC Chairman Ajit Pai restricted the scope of a federal program intended to provide internet access to low-income Americans just a week after claiming that closing digital divide would be one of his top priorities.
Regulators are telling nine companies they won't be allowed to participate in a federal program meant to help them provide affordable Internet access to low-income consumers - weeks after those companies had been given the green light.
The FCC has declined to defend a 2015 FCC ruling that places caps on rates charged to inmates making phone calls from prison.
The Federal Communications Commission will not defend all its rules capping the rates prison telephone providers can charge inmates during oral argument Feb. 6, an FCC official told a federal appeals court Jan. 31.
Without this rule, the prison population and their loved ones can be gouged for simply communicating with family and friends.