Internet Law and Business Blog

Instead of supporting heavy-handed regulation as proposed by Google and other major online players, the U.S. Federal Trade Commission’s staff came out against so-called “Net Neutrality.” Here’s a link to the 170-page report in case you have insomnia.
In plain English, this means that the FTC is going to let [...]

The U.S. Federal Communications Commission placed network neutrality conditions on AT&T’s acquisition of BellSouth.
Using these restrictions as a model, [...]

With big players like Microsoft, Google, and Amazon pushing the issue, the FTC will revisit the issue of net neutrality versus tiered pricing.
The heavy lobbying and campaign contributions are designed to tilt the playing field further to the advantage of the big online companies at the expense of small business [...]