Looks like our prediction in our recent HuffPo post was spot-on. Citing piracy concerns, Big Media has made its deal with broadband ISPs like Comcast to make sure its Internet video gets priority A-1 Express Lane carriage over the Internet. In exchange, they are supporting the ISPs' fierce opposition...

Will Mike McCurry be called as a witness for consumers in their class action lawsuit against Comcast for blocking and degrading its broadband customers' access to legal Internet content downloaded via BitTorrent?

Here's why I ask: in response to my earlier Huffington and SaveTheInternet blog post, Does...

Last week saw Big Media deliver a powerful one-two combination of punches that may knock out today's wide open Internet. First, in a speech delivered by Motion Picture Association of America President Dan Glickman, the nation's media conglomerates vowed to fight increasingly vocal calls from policymakers and the public...

In 2004, President Bush made universal broadband "in every corner of America by 2007" an explicit goal of his administration. Well, it's 2007, and millions of Americans are still without broadband access to the Internet. Millions more have access only to low quality "fraudband" that is so slow, unreliable and/or...

As expected, the FCC's decisions regulating so-called "indecency" on television were tossed out by a U.S. Court of Appeals today on the grounds that they were far too "arbitrary and capricious" to be lawful. The decisions involved Bono, Cher, and Nicole Ritchie each using what the lawyers call "fleeting expletives,"...

Recently, The Thomas Jefferson Center for the Protection of Free Expression awarded the Federal Communications Commission a "Muzzle Award" for its censorship of free speech and expression over our nation's publicly-owned airwaves, explaining that the Commission's reasoning as to what it chose to censor "amounted to little more...

Hard to escape the resounding message sent by Grammy voters as they handed five awards to the Dixie Chicks: Take This, Big Media, and Shove It!

As the Chicks themselves chronicled in their Shut Up and Sing documentary, after lead singer and Texan Natalie Maines publicly said in 2003...

Late Thursday night, with an end-of-year deadline looming to get Federal Communications Commission approval of its takeover of BellSouth, AT&T agreed to significant conditions on the deal that will keep control of the public's Internet in the hands of the public, and out of AT&T's clutches - at least, temporarily.

Three of the nation's most distinguished jurists heard arguments in Fox vs. the Federal Communications Commission yesterday in the US Second Circuit over whether the FCC's recent decisions on what constitutes indecency, and under what circumstances, are "arbitrary and capricious" under the law and therefore must be overturned.

While...

Alas, the incredible euphoria of Time Magazine picking You and Me as their Person(s) of the Year for 2006 can't last forever. No more all night parties. No more dancing in the virtual streets. Time to sober up and realize how all this wonderful - and less wonderful - user...

Not content to be Big Brother when it comes to broadcast program content, the FCC has decided to promote itself to Big Parent. In the FCC's brief to the Second Circuit defending its indecency decisions, the FCC claims that "separate and apart from facilitating parental supervision of children's viewing,"...

PBS stations canceled or delayed last night's Marie Antoinette documentary, and filmmaker Martin Smith is busily sanitizing his upcoming PBS Frontline documentary Return of the Taliban - just the latest examples of quality television programming censored to comply with the Federal Communications Commission's crusade against "indecent" content.

"Some Canadian...

The Federal Communications Commission ordered its staff to destroy all copies of a draft study that suggested greater concentration of media ownership would hurt local TV news coverage, according to a story by the AP's John Dunbar.

Former FCC attorney Adam Candeub, now a law professor at Michigan...

Yesterday's LA Times editorialized against limits on media ownership, which the FCC is trying to eliminate or relax again after its earlier 2003 attempt was "smacked down" (in the Times' own desperate-to-be-hip phrase) by a Federal appeals court. Of course, the Times has the right to editorialize as it...

"Net Neutrality" -- allowing consumers to choose what websites they visit on the Internet, as opposed to having the cable and telephone companies choose for them -- went down to defeat after a tie 11-11 vote in the Senate Commerce Committee. Should this stand on the Senate floor, big cable...

Your Federal Communications Commission - which in the name of the "public interest" eliminated Net Neutrality and turned control of the Internet over to the big telecom and cable companies - announced today it is ready to do you yet another service. This time, FCC Chairman Kevin J. Martin,...

The President will soon sign legislation increasing tenfold the "indecency" fines the FCC can impose on broadcasters. Bill author Senator Sam Brownback (R-KA) declares this a "victory" for children and families. No doubt the President will as well, although he'll likely avoid repeating that "Mission Accomplished" thing.

More accurately, as...

We're all still paying the high cost of seeing Janet's boob during the 2004 Super Bowl halftime show, as the FCC just denied CBS's appeal and affirmed its "indecency" fine. As anyone knows who reads our stuff, we abhor the FCC's consistently inconsistent indecency fines and violations. But let's put...

Responding to the complaints of hundreds of thousands of Americans offended by the "indecent" programming they and their children are watching on television, the Senate unanimously passed a tenfold increase in the maximum fine the Commission may levy against indecent broadcasters. With the Parents Television Council, the leading pressure group...

Jonathan Turley of George Washington U Law crafts a stinging indictment of the secret and illegal spying ops of the White House, and the Congress's role as an enabler in not opening the spy ops up to public scrutiny or demanding adherence to the law and Constitution. Turley then...