Sentences with phrase «from neutrality»

The only reason to deviate from neutrality is to use funds for a very concrete jobs / infrastructure program.

With more power and torque to distribute the rear axle is still easily overwhelmed, but, on track at least, the car is actually very fluid and languid in the way it moves from neutrality into oversteer — rather than being spikey and difficult to control.

That is one of the largest shifts away from neutrality that has taken place as a result of placement of the neutral position as the last of five options.

Such a simultaneous decrease in genetic diversity and deviation from neutrality is exemplified by the region overlapping the MC1R gene.

(C) Detection of selection defined by regions associated with decreased genetic diversity in domesticated horses relative to predomesticated horses [indicated by an increased log - ratio of the Watterson estimator (θw)-RSB- and showing potential deviation from neutrality (indicated by decreased Tajima's D values).

And if those two are more or less balanced, then the net effect is potentially no different from neutrality.

Quietly, the Department of Health this year shifted its position on diesel from neutrality to one advocating a precautionary approach.

As this passage suggests, A Bed for the Night documents the shift among humanitarian aid workers from neutrality to advocacy.

A more powerful religion would not suffer so from neutrality.

My instincts sense something so far from neutrality and you reek of an agenda disguised well enough to the lay person, but sorry....

By that I don't mean you have to take on any of the perceived baggage of the name, just that you are starting from a point of neutrality on the god - issue like we hopefully start from neutrality any time we don't know something and want to learn about it.

This May, First Things broke the news of Amnesty International's change of policy from neutrality to pro-abortion advocacy.

«Instead, it would put C corporations at a significant tax disadvantage and would move the tax code further away from neutrality between business forms.»

Not exact matches

Similarly, ZDNet found 128,000 identical anti-net neutrality comments and denials from the supposed submitters.

The company also professed its neutrality in a statement Saturday: «Out of respect for our customers and employees on both sides, Delta has taken this action to refrain from entering this debate and focus on its business.

Net neutrality, in case you need a refresher, is the term used to describe the unrestricted flow of content over the Internet, and it's been advocated by everyone from legal luminaries including Harvard professor Lawrence Lessig to entrepreneurs such as Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian, and startups such as Etsy and Meetup, and countless others.

In case you missed it, University of Ottawa professor Michael Geist on Friday published findings from an Access to Information request that show the regulator is failing miserably in enforcing net neutrality.

The smoke from the net neutrality bombshell that went off on Friday is not even close to clearing.

The CRTC kicks off a new round of hearings on usage - based internet billing on Monday, yet the smoke from the net neutrality bombshell that went off on Friday is not even close to clearing.

Pai's plan also blocks state and local governments from imposing their own net neutrality rules.

Attorneys General from 22 states filed suit to block the repeal of the Federal Communications Commissions net neutrality rules.

And in May, Trump - appointed FCC chairman Ajit Pai, a former Verizon lawyer, proposed canceling most of the agency's 2015 net neutrality rules that prohibit ISPs from blocking, slowing, or otherwise discriminating against web sites and online services.

Rules in jeopardy include «net neutrality,» which bars internet service providers from favoring some websites and apps over others.

Despite ISPs» clearly stated threats and attempts to circumvent net neutrality protections, Pai wants to unilaterally disarm the FCC and move broadband providers from light - touch regulation to no regulation.

«This is another effort from the operators to sell online services access to their customer base,» said Joe McNamee, the executive director of digital rights group EDRi, which campaigned hard for strong net neutrality laws.

In fact, the new net neutrality rules stem from a lawsuit filed by Verizon in 2011, which challenged the FCC's original «Open Internet» provision.

When Verizon launched in - house tech blog Sugar String back in 2014, it reportedly banned reporters from covering topics like net neutrality and government surveillance.

«Arguments about net neutrality shouldn't be used to prevent the most disadvantaged people in society from gaining access or to deprive people of opportunity.

While the FCC has argued that net neutrality rules made it more difficult for broadband providers to invest in their networks and thus hurt innovation, evidence suggests that such regulation has had no negative impact on telecom investment — instead, it increased by 5 percent from 2014 to 2016, when net neutrality rules were in place.

This doesn't just fall foul of the technicalities of net neutrality, but of the core principle itself — generally, while operators claim they want to improve their customers» experience, they also want to use their gatekeeper role to demand a slice of the action from the big ad networks.

The European Union recently agreed on new net neutrality laws which, though they are not yet in force, will ban operators from blocking content — unless it falls into very specific categories such as malware.

Sources at the European Commission and the European Parliament have confirmed that network - level ad blocking would therefore be illegal, unless individual EU countries pass specific legislation to exempt it from the bloc - wide net neutrality rules.

(Trump didn't explain why he thought net neutrality would specifically target conservative media, but it's worth noting that, in principle, preventing ISPs from giving a leg up to any online source would seem to ensure that a conservative news outlet could deliver stories without technical handicaps.)

This latest flood comes just days after HBO personality John Oliver urged his viewers to contact the FCC in support of the Obama - era rules, echoing a similar call from 2014 that many saw as boosting the public's awareness of net - neutrality the last time the topic was under debate.

Thursday's vote by the Federal Communications Commission to revoke its 2015 net neutrality rules generated heated commentary from both supporters and opponents of the move.

Outgoing U.S. Federal Communications Commission Chairman Tom Wheeler warned Republicans against dismantling the Obama administration's landmark «net neutrality» protections that bar internet service providers from slowing consumer access to web content.

The CRTC found that the practice, called «zero rating,» violated network neutrality regulations that prevent ISPs from privileging certain types of Internet traffic.

But the company said it still opposes the 2015 net neutrality rules, which prevent Internet service providers from blocking, slowing or otherwise discriminating against online content.

Two year old federal net neutrality rules, which prevent Internet service providers from blocking or slowing websites and online services, could be an early casualty of the new Trump administration.

To prevent this, in 2015, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) formalized net neutrality into law, blocking ISPs from being able to receive payments for prioritizing content.

«It's outrageous, and a blatant attempt to confuse the public, that they are claiming they are joining a grassroots online protest that's explicitly intended to defend the Title II based net neutrality protections that people from across the political spectrum overwhelmingly support,» Greer said.

Among the many twists and turns in the debate the past year has been the transformation of Wheeler from net neutrality villain to champion.

Most businesses try to isolate themselves, at least in some way, from ideologies or political perspectives, believing that neutrality and non-involvement are essential keys to avoid disrupting the waters.

The public has vehemently rejected its current proposal, which would allow Internet service companies to enact «fast lanes,» but if the agency decides to enforce net neutrality and reclassify broadband providers, it faces an avalanche of lawsuits from phone and cable companies.

In each of these cases, the very notion of net neutrality — or the idea that the traffic and content that flows across the Internet should be free from unnecessary discrimination by network providers — will be sorely tested this year.

The most notable public comments in favor of stringent net neutrality regulation has been from President Obama, who released a YouTube video in last November urging the FCC to «take up the strongest possible rules to protect net neutrality.»

Internet service providers clashed with Democrats and celebrities like «Star Wars» actor Mark Hamill ahead of a vote this week as the battle over net neutrality stretched from Hollywood to Washington.

However, it's worth noting that the FTC is forbidden from enforcing «common carriers» — a designation that was applied to all ISPs as part of the most recent net - neutrality rules, which reclassified the internet as a public utility and allowed the FCC to regulate it as such.

Driving the other camp are the tech companies and industry groups for whom the partisan deadlock on net neutrality risks stalling business plans and distracts from other policy debates they'd prefer to be having.

The senators had asked the agency whether the zero rating practices violated net neutrality rules, which prohibit Internet service providers from discriminating against any online content.