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80% of Net Neutrality Comments to FCC Were Fudged
2021-05-07 13:56

A secret campaign by the broadband industry to offer support to roll back net neutrality resulted in fake comments comprising more than 40 percent of those sent to the FCC during the public comments phase of its decision, according to the report by the New York State Office of the Attorney General. On the other side of the debate, a 19-year-old college student who opposed the repeal of net neutrality managed to file more than 7.7 million pro-neutrality comments with the FCC by fabricating people's names and addresses using software.

AT&T insists it's not blocking Tutanota after secure email biz calls foul, cites loss of net neutrality as cause
2020-02-14 06:14

Encrypted email service Tutanota on Thursday accused US mega-telco AT&T of blocking its service in some parts of America, and cited the service interruption, ongoing for more than two weeks, as evidence for the need for net neutrality. "Starting on January 25th 2020, we have had constant complaints from AT&T mobile users who were unable to access their encrypted Tutanota mailbox," company co-founder Matthias Pfau, wrote in a blog post on Thursday.

Deep Packet Inspection a threat to net neutrality, say campaigners
2019-05-21 13:28

Europe’s biggest ISPs and mobile operators are accused of undermining net neutrality rules and user privacy with their use of DPI.

Guidelines for assessing ISPs’ security measures in the context of net neutrality
2018-12-13 06:30

According to the EU’s net neutrality regulation, called the Open Internet Regulation, which came into force in 2016, internet providers should treat all internet traffic to and from their...

Up to 9.5 million net neutrality comments were fake
2018-10-22 10:39

New York has expanded its probe to subpoena 14 industry groups and lobbyists, saying that fake comments "distort[ed] public opinion."

California Law Sets Up Fresh Legal Clash Over 'Net Neutrality'
2018-10-03 17:54

The US Justice Department's lawsuit to block a California law aimed at ensuring all online data to be treated equally sets up a legal clash over so-called "net neutrality" and the authority to...

California, U.S. Government Battle Over Net Neutrality State Law
2018-10-01 17:52

The Department of Justice has filed a lawsuit after SB 822 was passed, enforcing net neutrality laws, on Sunday.

California Governor signs strong net neutrality protections into law
2018-10-01 08:37

California Governor Jerry Brown signed into law SB 822, the strongest and most comprehensive state-level net neutrality bill in the country. The bill passed the state legislature with overwhelming...

“Attack” on FCC over net neutrality was legitimate traffic, report says
2018-08-09 13:21

An FCC Office of Inspector General (OIG) report has found no evidence of DDoS attacks on the FCC's comments system.

US repeals net neutrality rules, what happens now?
2018-06-12 20:40

Net neutrality rules have been officially repealed in the US on Monday, as the Restoring Internet Freedom Order by the Federal Communications Commission went into effect. The decision to repeal...