“Net Neutrality” on The Daily Caller

Texas Republican Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison said Tuesday that a Senate vote to overturn the FCC’s net neutrality rules might come as early as next week. The vote would happen just days ahead of November 20, when the rules are scheduled to take effect. (more)

President Barack Obama announced Monday evening his Federal Communications Commissioner nominations: Ajit Varadaraj Pai and Jessica Rosenworcel. The candidates — a Republican and a Democrat, respectively — bring to the positions years of telecommunications and Capitol Hill experience. (more)

Frank La Rue, the U.N. Special Rapporteur on freedom of expression who made summer headlines when he proclaimed Internet access as a basic human right, conducted his research and delivered his conclusions with the support of organizations funded by liberal financier George Soros, The Daily Caller has learned. (more)

Even as I type, President Barack Obama is rolling along on his Canadian bus-fueled (he couldn’t go Government Motors?) “Re-Elect Me” Tour. (more)

They were shot down in court. Their plan failed in Congress. Polls have shown strong opposition from the American public. But all this didn’t stop the Federal Communications Commission from moving forward with new “net neutrality” Internet regulations. (more)

CityVille and The Sims Social gaming looks to have improved ten-fold. (more)

Verizon, a long time opponent of net neutrality, filed an appeal Friday in federal court challenging the Federal Communications Commission’s recent adoption of open Internet rules. The FCC formally entered those rules into the Federal Register last week. (more)

Though last week’s Federal Communications Commission filing which placed net neutrality in the Federal Register may have seemed an apparent victory for open internet advocates, a prominent free speech group is challenging the ruling, calling it “arbitrary and capricious, [and] an abuse of discretion.” (more)

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) filed a final version of its net neutrality rules Thursday, one year after they voted to pass the framework defining the principles of an ‘open Internet.’ The vote on the framework was passed on partisan lines, 3-2. (more)

On Wednesday, the Senate Judiciary Committee turns its antitrust sights toward Google. Several topics will be on the agenda, but the one at the top will be neutrality: Does Google impermissibly favor some links over others in its search results, benefiting itself and harming competitors? While the question may seem harmless enough, the premise — that regulators should enforce neutrality on the Internet — is actually quite pernicious. (more)

The Federal Communications Commission sent its semi-final draft of net neutrality rules to the White House for approval Thursday, bringing the controversial Internet rules one step closer to enforcement. (more)

Documents made public yesterday by Judicial Watch describe extensive collusion by Federal Communications Commission officials with a left-wing advocacy group in a campaign to expand government regulation of the Internet. (more)

This past Monday, Congressman Darrell Issa (R-CA) attended a field hearing on regulatory impediments to job creation in the high technology field. The AmericanJobCreators.com hearing included top tech firms like Microsoft and Google. (more)

The House of Representatives voted Friday afternoon to repeal the Federal Communications Commission’s net neutrality regulations. (more)

This week Congress made inroads towards reversing the Federal Communications Commissions attempt to implement Net Neutrality regulatory rules on Internet Service Providers that would disallow the use of various business models.  Representatives using part of the Congressional Review Act (CRA) known as the Joint Resolution of Disapproval passed House Resolution 37, introduced by Rep. Greg Walden (R-OR) this past Tuesday 241-178. (more)

The House passed an amendment Thursday that would bar the Federal Communications Commission from using any funding to implement the network-neutrality order it approved in December. (more)

A letter from media reform group Free Press to supporters sets a new standard for irony: Not quite two months after Free Press helped pave the way for the U.S. government to regulate the Internet, it’s stoking fears about the U.S. government abusing that power. (more)

This would be sort of reassuring* if it had come out BEFORE the FCC’s vote on net neutrality: (more)

WASHINGTON—Federal telecommunications regulators approved new rules Tuesday that would for the first time give the federal government formal authority to regulate Internet traffic, although how much or for how long remained unclear. (more)

The Federal Communications Commission is poised on Tuesday to pass so-called net neutrality regulations, first-time rules that prevent Internet service providers from blocking or giving preferential treatment to Web sites on their networks. (more)