TV blackouts are at a record high this year, as content providers try to squeeze more and more money out of cable bundle customers. The latest network to play the game is FOX, who are demanding a modest 114% fee increase from Cablevision. The cable company knows that customers are already cutting cable and switching [...]
The ACLU has identified net neutrality as critical to freedom of speech: In its report, the ACLU called on the FCC to apply longstanding “common carrier” rules that would bar network owners from halting, slowing or otherwise tampering with the transfer of data to Internet users. Common carrier rules included by Congress in the Telecommunications [...]
From AP via SkunkPost: House Democrats have shelved a last-ditch effort to broker a compromise between phone, cable and Internet companies on rules that would prohibit broadband providers from blocking or degrading online traffic flowing over their networks. House Commerce Committee Chairman Henry Waxman, D-Calif., abandoned the effort late Wednesday in the face of Republican opposition [...]
