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‘Which Side Are You On?’: Poor People’s Campaign Pressures US Senate on Democracy and Justice
Beginning with a "massive national call-in to every U.S. senator," the Poor People's Campaign on Monday launched a monthlong campaign to push Congress to eliminate the 60-vote filibuster, pass the For the People Act, restore the gutted Voting Rights Act, ...[Read more]
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US Congress under siege; gunfire as far right militants breach House
Images from the terrorist stampede inside the United States Capitol, where armed American far-right protesters invaded US Congress and started firing shots into the chambers. ...[Read more]
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The Senate’s push to overrule the FCC on net neutrality now has 50 votes, Democrats say
The tally leaves supporters just one vote shy of the 51 required to pass a Senate resolution of disapproval, in a legislative gambit aimed at restoring the agency's net neutrality rules. ...[Read more]
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The Year the Open Internet Came Under Siege: 2017 Year in Review
The fight between the Federal Communications Commission’s choice to abandon the principles of net neutrality and the majority of Americans started early in 2017 and continued into the very last month of the year. But even with the FCC’s bad vote ...[Read more]
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FCC Votes to Overturn Net Neutrality Regulations
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has reclassified net neutrality from Title II to Title I of the Communications Act of 1934, slashing regulations on what Internet Service Providers (ISP) can do regarding internet speed. The five-member panel, w ...[Read more]
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FCC Set to Roll Back Digital Civil Rights with Thursday vote to Repeal Net Neutrality
The Federal Communications Commission is set to vote Thursday on whether to repeal the landmark net neutrality protections passed under President Obama in 2015. Net neutrality is the principle that internet service providers treat web content equally and ...[Read more]
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All 535 members of Congress, and how much money they got from ISPs
The FCC is about to give massive internet service providers the power to divide the internet. It is at risk of becoming unrecognizable. A vital global utility that has been a boon to creative and economic freedom for people around the world may be turned ...[Read more]
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