The Daily Populous

Friday July 14th, 2017 morning edition

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Broadband providers made it clear this week: they wholeheartedly support net neutrality... but they want to overturn those pesky net neutrality rules and replace them with something that isn't so strict.

Comcast, meanwhile, accused net neutrality supporters of "creat[ing] hysteria.".

This was part of a flurry of activity by ISPs and broadband lobby groups in response to yesterday's "Day of Action to Save Net Neutrality," a protest of the Federal Communications Commission plan to deregulate broadband and eliminate or replace net neutrality rules.

Verizon is the same company that sued the FCC over a weaker set of net neutrality rules issued in 2010.

Republicans in Congress have advanced several net neutrality proposals; some would impose a version of net neutrality rules while gutting the FCC's authority to regulate ISPs, while others would wipe out net neutrality rules altogether.

Comcast, which helped kick off the decade-long net neutrality saga by throttling BitTorrent traffic, also pushed for Congress to replace the current net neutrality rules with something weaker.

Congress should write "legally enforceable net neutrality rules" in order to "end the game of regulatory ping pong," Comcast wrote. »

Comcast Subscribers Pay $1.9 Billion a Year for Free OTA Channels

Authored by billgeeks.com

Comcast Subscribers Are Paying Up To $1.9 Billion a Year for Over-the-Air Channels They Can Get Free.

We calculated that Comcast is raking in as much as $1.9 billion a year from its broadcast TV fees.

22,508,000 subscribers paying $7 a month for broadcast channels comes out to around $157.6 million in monthly revenue for Comcast. »

UPS Driver Adopts Dog After Owner Dies

Authored by people.com
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In May, Newhouser posted a photo of her pit bull pal in a Facebook group called UPS DOGS.

Leo had been adopted by his original owner, a woman named Tina, after her son Cannon brought him home as a puppy.

The friendly pup also bonded with his local UPS driver, Newhouser. »

Stephanie Meyer Red-hot in China: Could it be the Footnotes?

Authored by bruce-humes.com

As of early 2010, Meyer’s entire Twilight series—all four translated volumes—now rank among the “Top Ten Fiction Best Sellers” in mainland China.

In Taiwan, they took the top four slots on the island’s list of best-selling fiction.

Or a success-driven new generation that’s determined to learn about the world even as it wolfs down pulp fiction from the West?. »

House Democrats want to know why a major Russian money-laundering case was abruptly settled

Authored by businessinsider.com
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That attorney, Natalia Veselnitskaya, represents the family of Pyotr Katsyv, the former vice governor of the Moscow region, whose son, Denis, owns the real-estate company Prevezon.

"Last summer, Donald Trump Jr. met with a Kremlin-connected attorney in an attempt to obtain information 'that would incriminate Hillary,'" the Democrats wrote, citing the emails he published.

Denis Katsyv and Veselnitskaya have become the face of Moscow's lobbying efforts against the Magnitsky Act in recent years. »