open internet
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The Model Minority Is Not a Myth: It’s Ajit Pai
In the week after liberals clutched their organically grown pearls that our president would (openly) call the first black republic a “shithole,” many immigrants jumped on Twitter to quip about the shithole countries they come from. But immigrants come from various kinds of shitholes, some more palatable to white America than others. Ajit Pai and…
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#NetNeutrality: States, Public-Interest Groups File Lawsuits to Stop the FCC From Killing the Open Internet
As Democrats in the Senate work to push forward a resolution that would stop the Federal Communications Commission from killing net neutrality and ending the open and free internet for everyone, multiple lawsuits were filed Tuesday by different groups with that same goal in mind. A group of attorneys general from 21 states and the…
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#NetNeutrality: Senate Democrats Need 1 More Member to Vote to Overturn FCC Decision
Senate Democrats announced Tuesday that they have 50 of the 100 members of the Senate prepared to vote in favor of their Congressional Review Act resolution to overturn the Federal Communications Commission’s decision to repeal net neutrality. According to CNBC, Sen. Ed Markey (D-Mass.) said in a statement that all 49 Democrats were in favor…
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#NetNeutrality: The Fight for an Open and Free Internet Continues Across the Country
Nearly a month after the Federal Communications Commission voted to repeal the rules of net neutrality, lawmakers across the country are doing what they can to keep the internet open and free. In California, this comes in the form of Senate Bill 460. NBC Bay Area reports that the California Consumer Protection and Net Neutrality…
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#NetNeutrality: Black Women Saved Alabama on Tuesday; Now Let’s Save the Internet
Unless you have been hiding under a rock for the past year, you have heard net neutrality mentioned in the news over and over again, especially in the last month. Because unless we do something to stop it, Federal Communications Committee Chairman Ajit Pai is determined to push a vote Thursday that will completely dismantle…
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FCC’s Plan to Repeal Net Neutrality Will Silence Black Voices
From #BlackGirlsCode and #BlackMenSmile to #BlackLivesMatter and #BlackTwitter, the black internet is part of the 21st-century movement for dignity, rights and freedom—and it’s under attack. Since the Trump administration seems hell-bent on silencing black voices in the United States, it shouldn’t come as a big surprise that Trump’s Federal Communications Commission Chairman and former Verizon…
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The End of the Internet as We Know It: FCC Votes to Dismantle Net Neutrality
The Federal Communications Commission voted Thursday to dismantle Obama-era regulations on internet service providers, otherwise known as net neutrality rules, which have kept cable and telecom companies under strict FCC oversight since 2015. The vote was 2-1 along party lines, with FCC Republicans looking to loosen the regulations on the industry, NPR reports. Dozens of…