Using data collected from surveys distributed to the seven hundred largest police- and sheriff's departments, the present article addresses law enforcement: (1) preparedness to enforce Internet fraud crimes; (2) perceptions of Internet fraud; (3) cooperative policing efforts; and (4) Internet fraud information dissemination practices.
Thus, several experts have argued, the FTC isn't equipped to enforce internet non-discrimination.
First, I will ensure that the FCC preserves free expression and competition on the Internet by enforcing net neutrality, ensuring no degradation or blocking of access to web sites.
Declaring Internet service a utility would expand FCC authority to enforce net neutrality principles, ensuring that Internet service providers cannot charge for better Internet access.
But reclassification, separate from the net neutrality rules themselves, was less popular with broadband providers, which, along with leading internet engineering groups and companies like Google and Netflix, were concerned that the FCC would use the broad public utility powers it granted itself to regulate the internet well beyond enforcing net neutrality.
Worse, a federal court recently denied the FCC authority to regulate Internet service providers and enforce Net Neutrality.
Earlier this year, Verizon, together with Google, outlined an Internet policy proposal that suggested one way of enforcing net neutrality laws.
WASHINGTON -- Federal Communications Commission Chairman Tom Wheeler revealed a big win for net neutrality advocates on Wednesday, asking for strong authority to enforce open Internet protections.
"In the past our search for child pornography sites took place as part of our broader efforts to enforce our Internet pornography policy, and there was not always a clear differentiation between the two in our review and reporting".
Thanks to, among other things, its dramatic expansion of copyright enforcement, the agreement poses a grave threat to our basic right to access information and express ourselves on the web, and could easily be abused to criminalize common online activities and enforce widespread internet censorship.
