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Zach Carter

GOP Rep Pushes For Internet Freedom At CPAC

HuffingtonPost.com | Zach Carter | Posted 03.15.2013 | Politics

WASHINGTON -- This year's Conservative Political Action Conference has been dominated by discussions of Obamacare and gun rights, but Rep. Jason Chaff...

Free Bassel, Free Culture

Catherine M. Casserly, Ph.D. | Posted 03.15.2013 | World
Catherine M. Casserly, Ph.D.

The room brimmed with ideas: ideas about using arts and technology to build a better Middle East, ideas about new possibilities and challenges for the region. But mixed with the excitement was angst. One man was missing from the celebration. In a way, an entire country was missing.

White House Grants Aaron Swartz's Wish, In Part

The Huffington Post | Gerry Smith | Posted 02.26.2013 | Technology

Aaron Swartz, a well-known Internet activist who killed himself last month, believed that information should free, not digitized and put behind pay wa...

WATCH: Does The FBI Have A Sexting Problem?

Posted 02.25.2013 | HuffPost Live 321

According to the Atlantic Wire, an internal FBI report obtained by CNN shows that the FBI had to fire "numerous employees for things like sexting, spy...

Ryan J. Reilly

Aaron Swartz Prosecutors Saw 'Guerilla' Manifesto As Proof Of Malicious Intent

HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan J. Reilly | Posted 02.22.2013 | Politics

A Justice Department representative told congressional staffers during a recent briefing on the computer fraud prosecution of Internet activist Aaron ...

Zach Carter

Obama Pushes Controversial Trade Deals

HuffingtonPost.com | Zach Carter | Posted 02.12.2013 | Politics

WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama used his State of the Union address Tuesday night to urge the United States to pass two key trade agreements, inc...

Is Free Public WiFi Possible?

Timothy Karr | Posted 02.06.2013 | Technology
Timothy Karr

We have a long way to go to get public WiFi for all, but it's vital that we get to work right now. To promote affordable WiFi options, the FCC has to follow through and increase the amount of spectrum that is available for open networks.

Let's Talk About Internet Freedom

Raymond Schillinger | Posted 03.19.2013 | Technology
Raymond Schillinger

An open and free Internet does not mean the end of business or the end of new ideas. But we desperately need our laws to catch up in order to foster, not stall, the innovation that will power our evolving modern economy.

Gerry Smith

Were The Charges Against Internet Activist Aaron Swartz Too Severe?

HuffingtonPost.com | Gerry Smith | Posted 01.15.2013 | Technology

Before his apparent suicide Friday, Internet activist Aaron Swartz was facing trial for allegedly stealing millions of scholarly journal articles from...

Zach Carter

Family: Pioneering Internet Activist's Suicide 'A Product Of Prosecutorial Overreach'

HuffingtonPost.com | Zach Carter | Posted 01.13.2013 | Politics

Open democracy advocate and internet pioneer Aaron Swartz was found dead Friday in an apparent suicide, flooding the digital spectrum with an outpouri...

Open for Innovation: Why the Tech Industry Should Bet on Obama

Susan Crawford | Posted 11.06.2012 | Technology
Susan Crawford

Compare the Republican and Democratic Party platforms when it comes to technology and you'll find an open-and-shut case. One is open to creating universal, affordable access; the other is closed to newcomers in a sector where access points are controlled by a few monopoly players.

FCC Ruling Will Save Verizon Wireless Customers Big Bucks

Joel Kelsey | Posted 10.10.2012 | Technology
Joel Kelsey

Last week, the Federal Communications Commission handed down a decision that could save millions of Verizon Wireless subscribers up to $240 a year.

Zach Carter

Trade Policy Could Clarify Copyright Rules

HuffingtonPost.com | Zach Carter | Posted 07.03.2012 | Politics

WASHINGTON -- The Obama administration on Tuesday received cautious praise from open Internet advocates, after it released an outline for key proposal...

A Victory for AT&T's Shareholders

Josh Levy | Posted 06.30.2012 | Technology
Josh Levy

Today, in an unprecedented move, AT&T shareholders voted on a proposal calling on the telecom behemoth to publicly commit to Net Neutrality on its wireless networks.

Saving the Democratic Internet

Timothy Karr | Posted 01.09.2012 | Technology
Timothy Karr

Congress should not pass a resolution that lets a few wealthy corporations get away with hijacking our online rights. The open Internet is far too important to the rest of us.

No, Eric Schmidt, Google Doesn't Get It (And They Aren't Alone)

Art Brodsky | Posted 11.23.2011 | Technology
Art Brodsky

There were heaps of irony, and not a little schadenfreude, when Google Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt got himself a bi-partisan grilling before the Senate Antitrust Subcommittee, just two days before the FCC formally released its rules governing an Open Internet.

Internet Freedom Threatened By New Restrictions

The Huffington Post | Amy Lee | Posted 06.18.2011 | Technology

Freedom on the worldwide Internet is in danger, according to a new report by Freedom House. In a survey of 37 countries, only 8 qualified as having...

Web Startups Want An Open Internet -- House Republicans Don't

Art Brodsky | Posted 05.25.2011 | Technology
Art Brodsky

In approving the resolution to nullify the FCC's open Internet rules, Republican members in the House show that they don't care if big companies impose unfavorable conditions on start-ups and entrepreneurs.

Be Careful What You Wish For

Tracy Rosenberg | Posted 05.25.2011 | Media
Tracy Rosenberg

Sometimes you might get it. For most of the past year, public interest groups worried about the future of the Internet have pushed for action on net...

A Web Divided: Twitterers React To Controversial Net Neutrality Vote

The Huffington Post | Catharine Smith | Posted 05.25.2011 | Technology

On Tuesday, the FCC voted to adopt a framework that aims to preserve an "open Internet" by prohibiting Internet service providers from discriminating ...

In a Rare Moment, Consensus Reached in Net Neutrality Debate

Christina Gagnier | Posted 05.25.2011 | Technology
Christina Gagnier

The FCC should at least get credit for the one thing they accomplished with today's Net Neutrality vote: they brought both sides of a critical issue t...

Divided FCC Approves Net Neutrality Rules

AP | JOELLE TESSLER | Posted 05.25.2011 | Technology

WASHINGTON — Federal regulators adopted new rules Tuesday to keep the companies that control the Internet's pipelines from restricting what thei...

An Open Internet Pre-Holiday Reading List

Jonathan Spalter | Posted 05.25.2011 | Technology
Jonathan Spalter

As the clock continues to tick towards tomorrow's all-hands meeting of the FCC, some very thoughtful and unexpected voices are weighing in to the debate, urging that we "be done, and move forward."

Internet Access Should Be Application-Agnostic

Brad Burnham | Posted 05.25.2011 | Technology
Brad Burnham

The FCC can balance the interests of web services innovators and consumers with those of telephone and cable companies by defining application-specific discrimination as unreasonable.

All We Want For Christmas Is Internet Equality

Alex Nogales | Posted 05.25.2011 | Technology
Alex Nogales

The FCC has just a few days to decide an issue that could dramatically affect all of us all. Will they vote for strong open Internet protections that apply equally to the mobile web?