The cable and phone industry keep making the offensive argument that the First Amendment belongs to them, not you--and that the First Amendment empowers them to stifle your online speech just so they can make more money.

This Wednesday, the cable industry's head lobbyist gave a speech claiming that...

As I wrote on Monday, this holiday season may finally be time for millions of Americans to cut the cord on cable TV and shift to watching TV over the Internet and over the the air.

Already, only half of your time in front of the TV involves cable...

This holiday season is shaping up to be the season of Internet TV. Finally the time has come for Americans to watch TV through the Internet, and not just on laptop screens but on living room flat panel HD TV screens . Devices and services like AppleTV,

For weeks, newspapers have reported in their business pages on a possible Comcast-NBC Universal merger (announced today), as a business story. The merger is more than a routine business story. The merger signifies massive media consolidation. This consolidation gives one company--Comcast--enormous control over the speech shaping Americans' lives and...

Apparently, the first Monday after Black Friday is a big online shopping day, as Americans go back to work ... and shop online. Whether CyberMonday is hype or not for retailers, it's a good day to celebrate Internet openness.

For years, a debate has raged in DC over...

If we as a nation don't preserve Network Neutrality at home, we undermine our diplomacy goals and pro-democracy initiatives abroad. So say senior officials at the State Department and the White House, who spoke Thursday at an academic conference organized by the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Their comments came just...

Senator Al Franken will ask Judge Sotomayor questions this week as a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee and has said he will ask about network neutrality. As the Daily Show once explained, "network neutrality" is a proposed law that would forbid phone and cable companies from interfering...