Category: net neutrality / free the internet!
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House Sells Out the Internet
I’ll have my own comments later (have to go back and watch the PVRed proceedings from CSPAN to pick choicer comments for the radioshow), so I leave it to Free Press to tell the story: June 8, 2006 Contact: Jeannine Kenney (202) 238-9249 Ben Scott (202) 265-1490 House Ignores Public, Sells Out the Internet through…
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Reports and Views on Net Neutrality as the House Debates
As I write this the House is debating the Markey amendment to add network neutrality protections to the COPE Act. I will bring some clips from this to tomorrow’s radioshow. Today the Washington Post published an Op-Ed from Robert McChesney and Larry Lessig, which breaks down why we need net neutrality in law very simply:…
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COPE Act on the House Floor Tomorrow — Call Your Rep To Oppose It
I just got off the phone with the office of Rep. Tim Johnson, my congressperson in the House, asking him to oppose the COPE Act, which goes to the House floor for a vote tomorrow. The COPE act stinks in a variety of ways. First, it would create a national franchise depriving local communities of…
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News Headlines from the June 2, 2006 Radioshow: New FCC Commissioner Opens Floodgates for Chairman’s Agenda; Senators Urge FCC to Address the Public Interest; FCC Investigates TV Stations Airing Fake News
These are the news headlines as read on the June 2 edition of the mediageek radioshow: New FCC Commissioner Opens Floodgates for Chairman’s Agenda; Senators Urge FCC to Address the Public Interest; FCC Investigates TV Stations Airing Fake News; Ebay Joins Coalition to Save the Internet (this one actually didn’t make it onto the show).
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Internet Freedom Fight Brewing in the House
Today the House Judiciary Committee passed the “Internet Freedom and Nondiscrimination Act of 2006,” HR 5417, which offers what SaveTheInternet calls “meaningful protections for Network Neutrality.” All 14 of the committee’s Democrats supported it along with 6 Republicans. 13 Republicans voted against it. Today’s vote is shot across the bow in a turf war, as…
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Telcos Exploiting Their Bully Pulpit
Just read an interesting anecdote reblogged at SaveTheInternet. Apparently, AT&T’s astroturf group TV 4US is now telemarketing to ask people: “The internet is going to be more expensive, because big companies like Microsoft and Google are wasting all our bandwidth. Do you think consumers should pay for that? Or should the big companies that are…
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Catching Up with the Radioshow: The Yes Men Spoof Halliburton, Bringing Transmitters to Central America, Musicians Support Internet Freedom
If you don’t normally listen to the mediageek radioshow, you should consider checking out the last two programs. Yesterday my guests were Bill Taylor and Adrienne Bauer from the Primary Communications Project, talking about their plans to bring a 1 kilowatt AM radio transmitter to the Lenca people of Honduras. I also played part of…
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Moby and Rep. Ed Markey’s Press Conference to Save the Internet
Moveon.org is hosting a video from Thursday’s SaveTheInternet press conference featuring Moby and Rep. Ed Markey.
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Growing the Movement To Save the Internet with Moby, REM and Others
An unsuprising coalition of musicians has come together under the banner of Artists and Musicians for Internet Freedom to support network neutrality legislation. Strangely, the group doesn’t have a website yet, though REM’s website has an announcement about it, and explains the issue rather succinctly: Net Neutrality is the long-held principle that all online speech…
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Chicago Protest Against AT&T’s Anti-Net-Neutrality Campaign, May 24
Just received word from Mitchell at Chicago Media Action that they’re planning a protest against AT&T as part of a national Day of Media Outrage: In response to dreadful proposed media-related legislation now working its way through Congress, Chicago Media Action, along with organizers in Boston and New York City (and a number of other…