Adelstein and Copps: Voices at the FCC for a Free and Open Internet
It's unusual for federal bureaucrats to achieve rock star status, but two commissioners at the FCC have amassed an enthusiastic fan base among the emerging "Open Internet" movement.
It's unusual for federal bureaucrats to achieve rock star status, but two commissioners at the FCC have amassed an enthusiastic fan base among the emerging "Open Internet" movement.
Open Left | Posted 07.24.2008 | Politics
For the last few months, we've been posting Democratic Senate challenger positions on net neutrality here at OpenLeft. Since we started posting, we'v...
Art Brodsky | Posted 07.16.2008 | Media
No discussion of the Internet should be complete without a discussion of preserving and protecting the online environment. The big telecom and cable companies want to control which data goes faster.
Timothy Karr | Posted 07.11.2008 | Media
Against every ounce of conventional wisdom in Washington, everyday citizens and consumer advocates have taken on a major corporation and won a major victory.
Craig Aaron | Posted 06.05.2008 | Media
This could be the first presidential election where the Internet is an issue. I don't mean using the Internet as a political tool ... I mean a bona fide election issue. There's a lot at stake.
Art Brodsky | Posted 06.03.2008 | Media
There's a lot of mischief that cable and telephone companies can perpetrate, and it's not at all clear that the FCC would have the authority to punish them.
Timothy Karr | Posted 05.09.2008 | Media
The nation's largest phone and cable providers have proposed a closed scheme of Internet fees and filters that affords them the final say over which ideas make it to the top of the heap.
Art Brodsky | Posted 05.05.2008 | Media
What is it about individual freedom that "conservatives" like the American Spectator and Dick Armey don't like?
Jonathan Rintels | Posted 04.25.2008 | Media
It's time for the government to implement reasonable oversight that protects consumers and content creators, and preserves the open Internet we enjoy today.
Timothy Karr | Posted 04.22.2008 | Media
Two leaders of Hollywood's creative community today called upon the Senate to guarantee that the Internet remains a free-flowing medium for independent writers, producers and filmmakers.
AP | JOHN DUNBAR | Posted 04.22.2008 | Media
WASHINGTON — Federal Communications Commission Chairman Kevin Martin said Tuesday his agency has all the authority it needs to prevent Internet ...
John Kerry | Posted 04.21.2008 | Politics
From the economic value of Internet activity to the social value of the new models of organization, the free flow of information on the Internet is a vital part of this nation's future.
Craig Aaron | Posted 04.19.2008 | Business
I'll admit that we can't (yet) connect Comcast to child labor, environmental destruction or Dick Cheney. But I'm not alone in my seething rage for the nation's largest cable company.
Kip Williams | Posted 04.18.2008 | Media
We're all very busy working on our own specific issues, but if we don't hold the government accountable to do the right thing on Net Neutrality, we're all going to have a much more difficult time making space for change.
Timothy Karr | Posted 04.15.2008 | Media
Billionaire Richard Branson needs to call one of his boys out to the woodshed: his top man at Virgin Media stated his plans to undermine the basic freedoms upon which the Internet was built.
Craig Aaron | Posted 04.09.2008 | Business
Consumers in South Korea, France and Qatar pay less for broadband connections that are much faster than we have here. These countries have policies that foster more choice and innovation.
Timothy Karr | Posted 04.05.2008 | Media
For an excellent perspective on net neutrality, read Saturday's New York Times op-ed by OK Go guitarist Damian Kulash.
Timothy Karr | Posted 04.04.2008 | Media
There's no better time to hear from us. Comcast has been caught blocking BitTorrent, Verizon has been caught blocking text messages, AT&T wants to inspect and filter Web traffic.
Jonathan Rintels | Posted 03.30.2008 | Media
If McCurry is called to testify on behalf of consumers' rights in their class action against Comcast, would he be what lawyers call a "hostile witness?"
Timothy Karr | Posted 03.21.2008 | Media
Without action to restore Net Neutrality protections, the Web we get may be blinkered by phone and cable companies' ability to restrict the content and applications we may want to use.
Art Brodsky | Posted 03.16.2008 | Media
Net Neutrality has nothing to do with prohibiting innovation or for making movies available in the future. If anything, a free and open Internet would put all movie makers on equal footing.
Jonathan Rintels | Posted 03.16.2008 | Media
Last week's opening of Hulu and the MPAA's vehement denunciation of net neutrality are intimately related, a double-barreled shot aimed at the heart of the open Internet.
Jonathan Handel | Posted 03.13.2008 | Media
Hollywood studios are taking a position on net neutrality -- the principle that ISPs should not discriminate against small users when providing network bandwidth -- and they're against it.
Portfolio | Sam Gustin | Posted 03.05.2008 | Business
The Federal Communications Commission acknowledges that Comcast, the nation's largest cable company, paid people to attend last week's public meeting ...
Timothy Karr | Posted 03.04.2008 | Media
You would hope that Wall Street Journal editors had learned enough public policy by now to pull their writers' frequent rants against it into line with actual history.
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Timothy Karr | Posted 07.25.2008 | Media