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A bill introduced in the California legislature to counter the Trump administration’s ending of net neutrality would stop internet service providers (ISPs) “from slowing access and exempting certain content from customers’ data plans.” (Courthouse News Service, March 14, 2018, by Nick Cahill) In drafting the bill, state Senator Scott Wiener consulted Stanford law professor Barbara van Schewick who said the bill would close a key loophole by preventing service providers from charging access fess for

The Government Accountability Office (GOA) will investigate fraudulent postings during the public comment period over net neutrality. The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) voted to end net neutrality in December after the public generated some 2 million comments on the issue. The Pew Research Center found that 57 percent of comments used duplicate or temporary e-mail addresses and that Pat M. was the name behind over 5,900 submissions. (Courthouse News Service, January 24, 2018, by Brandi

From the public comment period, New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman found at least two million fake comments using real people’s names in support of FCC chair Ajit Pai and his campaign to end net neutrality. Pai showed no interest in acknowledging the scam and cited privacy concerns in refusing to summit evidence of the fraud to the attorney general. (techdirt, December 14, 2017, by Timothy Geigner) The Federal Communications Commission voted 3-2 on Dec.

With the Federal Communications Commission sacking net neutrality rules, the EFF argues that Internet Service Providers (ISPs) will now be able to block web providers and discriminate on the basis of content. The EFF says that given two recent Supreme Court Decisions, the public cannot seek justice by using anti-trust remedies. (Electronic Freedom Foundation, November 17, 2017, by Corynne McSherry, Kit Walsh, Mitch Stoltz and Ernesto Falcon) The FCC will vote on the new rules

A coalition of nonprofits is asking the Federal Communications Commission in a public records request for records about net neutrality, mainly correspondence between the FCC and internet providers and with Congress and the media. The coalition says the FCC is not listening to the public so they are trying to find out who they are listening to. (Ars Technica, July 26, 2017, by Jon Brodkin. The nonprofit coalition, called American Oversight filed a complaint in