By Robert Romano If you can read this, ending net neutrality still has not broken the Internet. April 23 has come and gone, and with it so too has the Federal Communications Commission’s so-called net neutrality regulation been rescinded, and yet somehow, the Internet is still here. […]

By Robert Romano There has not been this much hysteria over a Netpocalypse since Y2K, which failed to break the Internet. 18 years ago, media publications worried feverishly for months on end that financial and other institutions would fail to make the transition from the 20th to […]

By Rick Manning President Obama’s famous pen and phone were hard at work last week, as he launched an attack on some of his closest allies. Using 80-year-old telecommunications law, the Federal Communications Commission, under what appears to be direct orders from the President, announced far-reaching rules […]

By Robert Romano “The Federal Communications Commission is an independent agency, and ultimately this decision is theirs alone.” That was President Barack Obama’s November 10 take on who gets to decide whether new rules governing so-called “net neutrality” — regulating broadband Internet providers as “common carriers” under the Communications Act of 1934 — gets implemented. At issue are proposed regulations by the Federal Communications Commission […]

Today, the United States Court of Appeals for the Washington D.C. circuit struck down major Obama administration regulatory provisions on net neutrality rules. This is yet another blow to the improper government overreach exemplified by the Obama Administration and the Federal Communications Commission under the […]

FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski is reportedly in the mix of names being considered by Obama to replace Gary Locke as the Department of Commerce Secretary. Locke is exiting the Commerce Department after being named the amabassador to China by Obama over the weekend. Julius “Caesar of the Internet” Genachowski is a Big Government regulator if there […]

On: 03/09/2011 09:34:03 In: Uncategorized ALG Editor’s Note: As ALG News has previously reported in its “Big Government Bozo” weekly segment , Julius Genachowski has, as FCC, put the wheels in motion for government control of the Internet via so-called “net neutrality” regulations. In the following featured story from The Hill , now Genachowski is being tapped for Commerce Secretary: By Sara Jerome The White House is […]

By Adam Bitely – On Wednesday, the House Communications and Internet Subcommittee held a hearing on the recently approved Federal Communications Commission (FCC) regulations for the Internet commonly referred to as “Net Neutrality.” These first ever Internet rules were passed by the FCC in a […]

On: 02/17/2011 09:17:17 In: Uncategorized By Adam Bitely On Wednesday, the House Communications and Internet Subcommittee held a hearing on the recently approved Federal Communications Commission (FCC) regulations for the Internet commonly referred to as “Net Neutrality.” These first ever Internet rules were passed by the FCC in […]

Receiving 3 out of 5 votes, the FCC has passed Net Neutrality rules that will allow the Federal Government to regulate the internet. This is just a preview of coming attractions on how the Obama administration will govern through regulation in the coming years. For […]