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Tech Think Tanks Fighting N.Y. Broadband Law in Supreme Court

Broadband Breakfast

At issue is the scope of state authority to regulate broadband ISPs after the FCC had classified them as lightly regulated information service providers under Title I  of the Communications Act and not as heavily regulated common carriers under Title II of the same law. Amicus briefs in support of the N.Y.

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Network Neutrality Redux and the Return of Falsehoods and Disinformation

Telefrieden

Then again, some of them want to convert social networks into involuntary common carriers to deny them any sort of First Amendment editorial freedom. 1, 47-87 (2015); [link]. Even current FCC Commissioners, who ought to know better, will trot out the same clearly untrue parade of horribles. Lastly (I hope!),

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