Few things are as important to The Verge as keeping the internet free and fair for everyone, and that’s why we supported the FCC when it passed net neutrality provisions in 2015. The Open Internet Order codified the principles of net neutrality, established a level playing field by, among other provisions, preventing internet service providers from throttling certain sites — including ones they own — over others. But now net neutrality is under threat. The Trump-appointed Chairman of the FCC, Ajit Pai, has expressed skepticism over the Open Internet Order, and says it stymies competition. In opposition of advocates, the broad majority of the general public, and even republican lawmakers, in November 2017, the FCC, is set to rescind the Open Internet Order. But the FCC is meeting tough resistance. This is the fight to keep the internet free.
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December 14, 2017
What public libraries will lose without net neutrality
A Q&A with NYPL president Tony Marx and associate director of information policy Greg Cram
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December 13, 2017
New York Public Libraries: the proposal to kill net neutrality is 'appalling'
An open letter from the presidents of the New York, Brooklyn, and Queens public libraries
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December 11, 2017
The FCC and FTC announce partnership to watch the internet burn
As long as ISPs say how they’re screwing things up it’s no big deal!
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December 11, 2017
Congress took $101 million in donations from the ISP industry — here’s how much your lawmaker got
Every member of Congress has received money from the ISP industry. Here’s how much yours made
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August 31, 2017
The net neutrality comment period was a complete mess
How much is 22 million comments worth?
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April 11, 2017
The FCC’s plan to kill net neutrality will also kill internet privacy
The FTC probably can’t do what Ajit Pai is promising it can
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March 29, 2017
The 265 members of Congress who sold you out to ISPs, and how much it cost to buy them
They betrayed you for chump change