A court ruling striking down net neutrality has local advocates bracing for the impacts — just like they’ve been doing for more than a decade. A federal appeals court on Thursday blocked the Federal ...

Everyone knows that free-to-air television is in strife. Technology means that the old idea of “appointment television,” whereby you arrange your life to meet the networks’ schedules, is well and ...

One of the longest, most technical and, as it turns out, most inconsequential public-policy debates of the 21st-century was about net neutrality. Now that a federal appeals court has effectively ended ...

A federal appeals court recently struck down an attempt by the Federal Communications Commission to enforce net neutrality, the idea that internet service providers shouldn’t favor or discriminate ...

Spend enough time inside the Beltway, and it seems as though almost all of the contentious policy debates are just repetitions or slight variations of some issue in the past. For example, debates over ...

President Obama ran for president as a vocal supporter of “net neutrality,” the principle that Internet providers should deliver all varieties of online content at equal speeds. But in response to a ...

What does internet freedom have to do with rent? Much more than you’d think. Net neutrality is the idea that regulation must prevent internet service providers from favoring one kind of content over ...

Pop quiz: What industry gets lower marks from the public than health insurance companies, airlines, the postal service and agribusiness? Answer: Cable companies. National surveys regularly chronicle ...

John Oliver, host of HBO’s “Last Week Tonight,” gave a brilliant explanation of the net neutrality debate during his show Sunday night, and in doing so railed against American cable companies. Oliver ...

A contentious debate about how to regulate the Internet, now before Congress, is full of technical jargon and confusing dueling slogans, such as “Hands Off the Internet” and “Save the Internet.” But ...