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Net neutrality is a set of rules adopted by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) which say Internet Service Providers (ISPs) such as Comcast, Time Warner, AT&T, and Verizon, cannot block, throttle, or prioritize certain content on the Internet.
Whatever happened to net neutrality? 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Policies and Controversy Investopedia Washington becomes first state to pass net neutrality protections into law Medium Here’s who’ll benefit — and who might not — if net neutrality is repealed as expected Los Angeles Times Net Neutrality Reclassification Could Add $15 Billion in New User Fees Brookings Net Neutrality 2020 Legislation National Conference of State Legislatures A Year Without Net Neutrality: No Big Changes (Yet) WIRED Net Neutrality May Finally Be Dead—Good Riddance City Journal This Is How Net Neutrality Will End American Civil Liberties Union The Sixth Circuit Stays the FCC’s Latest Net Neutrality Flip-Flop The Federalist Society Federal court decision won’t change California net neutrality law Los Angeles Times Understanding net neutrality: 10 essential reads The Conversation How the FCC's Net Neutrality Plan Breaks With 50 Years of History WIRED Court strikes down US net neutrality rules BBC The FCC Can’t Give You Net Neutrality The Federalist Society Regulating Internet Service Providers as Common Carriers Will Not Satisfy Net Neutrality Advocates Brookings Net neutrality rules about corporate control over internet speeds blocked by federal appeals court CBS News What Will Happen if the FCC Abandons Net Neutrality? Knowledge at Wharton Net neutrality rules reinstatement temporarily halted by US appeals court Reuters Net Neutrality Is About Control, Not Consumers American Enterprise Institute - AEI Sixth Circuit strikes down new neutrality regulation Mackinac Center Red Alert for Net Neutrality Creative Commons Net Neutrality Repeal: What Could Happen and How It Could Affect You (Published 2017) The New York Times The Supreme Court and House Democrats breathe new life into net neutrality Brookings Net Neutrality is Back! – Open Policy & Advocacy blog.mozilla.org What Net Neutrality Means for Students and Educators National Education Association | NEA Experts Disagree on Net Neutrality Legal Ground Broadband Breakfast Net Neutrality Explained: What It Means (and Why It Matters) Fortune In blow to Democrats, federal appeals court strikes down net neutrality The Washington Post In the net neutrality debate, what might follow Mozilla v. FCC? Brookings Repealing Net Neutrality: Implications for Cybersecurity American Enterprise Institute - AEI FCC Announces Plan to Abandon Net Neutrality and ISP Privacy Electronic Frontier Foundation Net neutrality is back. What does that mean for schools? K-12 Dive A return to US net neutrality rules? The Cloudflare Blog F.C.C. Plans Net Neutrality Repeal in a Victory for Telecoms (Published 2017) The New York Times Net neutrality rules restored by US agency, reversing Trump Reuters Law Prof van Schewick Calls Net Neutrality Ruling 'a Radical Decision’ Broadband Breakfast FCC Net Neutrality Online Public Comments Contain Many Inaccuracies and Duplicates Pew Research CenterThe term was coined by Columbia University media law professor Tim Wu in 2003, as an extension of the longstanding concept of a common carrier, which was used to describe the role of telephone systems.
A widely cited example of a violation of net neutrality principles was the Internet service provider Comcast's secret slowing ("throttling") of uploads from peer-to-peer file sharing (P2P) applications by using forged packets. Comcast did not stop blocking these protocols, like BitTorrent, until the FCC ordered them to stop. In another minor example, The Madison River Communications company was fined US$15,000 by the FCC, in 2004, for restricting their customers' access to Vonage, which was rivaling their own services. AT&T was also caught limiting access to FaceTime, so only those users who paid for AT&T's new shared data plans could access the application. In July 2017, Verizon Wireless was accused of throttling after users noticed that videos played on Netflix and Youtube were slower than usual, though Verizon commented that it was conducting "network testing" and that net neutrality rules permit "reasonable network management practices".
Research suggests that a combination of policy instruments will help realize the range of valued political and economic objectives central to the network neutrality debate. Combined with strong public opinion, this has led some governments to regulate broadband Internet services as a public utility, similar to the way electricity, gas, and the water supply are regulated, along with limiting providers and regulating the options those providers can offer.