Federal Communications Commission chairman Tom Wheeler confirmed on Wednesday that the FCC will have the chance to enact the strongest possible protections for the internet at its February 26 meeting. In an op-ed for Wired, Wheeler detailed some of the proposals he would present to the FCC, including reclassifying the Internet as a public utility…
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) will soon vote on a new set of net neutrality rules. The vote is likely to come at the FCC’s monthly meeting in February, which is scheduled to occur on February 26. The Washington Post’s Brian Fung reports: President Obama’s top telecom regulator, Tom Wheeler, told fellow FCC commissioners before…
Responding to the call of millions of Americans and years of grassroots campaigning, President Obama on Monday took what net neutrality proponents called a “major step” towards the protection of the Internet by issuing a statement calling for the safeguarding of “one of the most significant democratizing influences the world has ever known.” Obama’s new…
