Saturday, September 22, 2018
New York Times sues FCC over FoIA non-compliance with turning over possible Russian meddling with comment period in 2017
Jon Brodkin of Ars Technica reports that the New York Times
has sued the FCC for its refusal to turn over records, based on the Freedom of
Information Act, concerning possible Russian meddling during the comments phase
of its 2017 process to eliminate Obama-era network neutrality rules. The link
is here.
There are some indications of DDoS attacks on FCC servers during
the comments, and attempts to hide pro-neutrality comments. Russians could have
had the sinister desire of wanting to wind up with a system were telecoms block
individual speakers or small organizations. That really doesn't seem to be happening.
Tuesday, September 04, 2018
California's net neutrality bill poses the "federalist" question as to whether the states will take back the issue
Cecilia Kang has a long article “California bill sets up a
fight on net access” Saturday, Sept. 1, here. As of the time of writing, Gov. Jerry Brown
had not yet signed it.
The bill apparently gave net neutrality “activists” all that
“they” were seeking. Telecoms apparently cannot offer free streaming for apps,
out of apparent deference to smaller publishers that don’t have the pull to
offer the same. Normal streaming services would be offered at the same quality.
Telecoms did not get some contingent capacity to throttle in the future if they
wanted to.
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