A list of Internet status stories.

With the recent midterm election and the resulting GOP tidal wave that is about to inundate Congress, many people have wondered aloud if net neutrality was dead?  Well if FCC Chief Julius Genachowski has his way, net neutrality will be implemented by fiat when he has his agency simply change rules without involving congress at all.

In an address to the United Nations on Thursday, Sept. 23, President Obama pledged to preserve a “free and open Internet"(1) and would call out nations that censored content.

The European Parliament has adopted a proposal to collect citizens’ private search queries and store them for up to two years – framing the controversial plan as a measure to crack down on pedophiles.