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FCC Votes To Start Reinstating Net Neutrality Rules

US communications regulator votes to begin process to reinstate landmark net neutrality rules struck down under Trump

Back from the dead? Democrat controlled FCC proposes new net neutrality laws after Republican roll back in 2017

Legal challenge from American ISP's to California's strict net neutrality law to protect open Internet, has been dropped after courtroom defeats

Multiple nations including US, UK, France, Germany, Spain, launch 'Declaration for the Future of the Internet' to safeguard open and free Internet

US President Biden has been urged to appoint a fifth commissioner to “ensure a fully functional Federal Communications Commission"

Controversial law will route Russian web traffic through points controlled by Russian government

Open Internet Code prevents ISPs in the UK from throttling traffic to competitor sites

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Association of tech giants including Google and Facebook turns the screw on FCC over net neutrality rules, plans a publicity campaign

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Neelie Kroes has called for the European Parliament to end mobile roaming charges across Europe

BT, Sky and TalkTalk have signed. Vodafone and Virgin Media have not.

The Netherlands has become the first country in Europe, and the second in the world after Chile, to institute net neutrality provisions

Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales will help get government-backed research freely available online

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More and more Chinese people are logging onto the Web, after a 12 percent surge in those using the internet

Foreign Secretary says preserving online rights is as important as tackling poverty or climate change

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Internet services seem to have been restored in Tripoli after the rebel forces stormed the Libyan capital

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Tim Berners-Lee says ISPs must uphold net neutrality as they strive to manage increasing data on the web