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Northwestern University and Evanston's Only Daily News Source Since 1881

The Daily Northwestern

Northwestern University and Evanston's Only Daily News Source Since 1881

The Daily Northwestern


Gov. Jerry Brown of California signed a bill after the FCC repealed net neutrality rules in 2017. The move by the FCC means that providers like Verizon can now charge consumers differently for services and thus limit the access users have to the information that can be consumed.

Your streaming is at stake: Why net neutrality matters

October 25, 2018

Ahead of the November midterm elections, Daily reporters are speaking to voters about issues they’ll take to the polls. In this article, students and professors take on the complexity of net neutrality. The...

Sawhney: Free Basics would do more harm than good

Sawhney: Free Basics would do more harm than good

January 27, 2016

As a Non-Resident Indian (NRI), when I first saw the petition Facebook automatically sent out, I was shocked at its lack of context. Facebook clearly worded this plea to users to make it appear that they...

Stratton: Free Basics program is better than nothing

Stratton: Free Basics program is better than nothing

January 27, 2016

There are lots of problems with the Free Basics in India, both in conception and execution, but the question must be asked: Isn’t something better than nothing? Quite frankly, one of the only reasons...

Award-winning economist Jean Tirole discusses industrial regulation and complex markets at an Undergraduate Economics Society event Tuesday. Tirole won the University’s Erwin Plein Nemmers Prize in Economics in February of 2014.

Nobel Memorial Prize winner talks regulation mistakes, complex markets

April 29, 2015

Economist Jean Tirole spoke about his Nobel Memorial Prize-winning work on industrial regulations Tuesday in Harris Hall. Markets are often not as simple as one buyer and one seller, he said, and regulators...

Gelman: Everyone should be in favor of net neutrality

Gelman: Everyone should be in favor of net neutrality

March 13, 2015

At its core, net neutrality is not a set of laws, government regulations or an overreach of power by a federal agency. Net neutrality is an idea — a principle — that Internet service providers, such...

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