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_1.jpg) | Susan Crawford in SF on May 14th
Former White House Advisor and law professor Susan Crawford speaks on her new book Captive Audience: Monopoly Power in the New Gilded Age. 2:00pm on May 14th at the CPUC Auditorium 505 Van Ness Avenue in San Francisco. |
 | Wireless Lifeline: Real or Phony
Update: 11/29 It looks like a compromise proposal is in the works. Comments at the meeting looked very encouraging for consumer protections and a meaningful definition of basic service. |
 | There's a Public Internet and You May Not Be On It
by Brendan Greeley and Jeff Bliss, Bloomberg BusinessWeek
Responding to a Department of Justice probe into anti-competitive behavior, telecom giant Comcast made the interesting claim that while competitor Netfix operates in the public internet, their on-demand movie service (Xfinity) operates in the private Internet. |
 | Fahrenheit 451
by Andrew Couts, Digital Trends
In the spirit of the Bradbury novel and the Right-to-Know Monsanto initiative, a Google programmer has suggested a new error code indicating when a link you click on has been censored by the government. |
 | The Capacity Crisis Myth
by Karl Bode, DSL Reports
Karl Bode of DSL Reports addresses the dramatic spectrum crunch rumors that justify the new trend of data caps and premium user fees. |
| 1st Week of Net Neutrality: (Kinda)
After the Senate turned away a resolution of disapproval 52-46, a new reality of wireless discrimination and wired neutrality began on 11/20/2011. |
 | Open Internet: Insurrection at the e-G8
An unscheduled press conference at the e-G8 featured Jeremie Zimmerman, La Quadrature du Net - Creative Commons founder Lawrence Lessig, Susan Crawford, jean-Francois Julliard, Reporters Without Borders and Yochai Benkler from the Berkman Center. |
 | Did The Cable Industry Pay Ralph Reed Millions of Dollars?
by Lee Fang, ThinkProgress.org
According to documents obtained by ThinkProgress, the National Cable and Telecom Association (NCTA), a trade association that represents cable providers like Comcast and Qwest Communications, has provided Reed’s lobbying firm with at least $3,462,117 worth of contracts in the last three years alone. |
| Net Neutrality Order Passes With Big Loopholes
Net Neutrality orders passed the FCC on December 21st with exemptions from regulation for wireless and mobile connections from regulatory protocols and little to prevent paid content prioritization. |
| Bay Area Disability Advocates Call on FCC to Keep the Internet Open
In January, The World Institute on Disability sent a comment to the FCC suggesting net neutrality regulations would have a negative effect on persons with disabilities. The position that the WID takes is not one shared by the entire disability community. This letter is to address that fact and voice concerns members of the disability community have about the future of the Internet. |
 | 100+ at Google on August 13th
More than 100 people stopped everything on Friday August 13th to tell Google how they really felt about the corporate turnaround on net neutrality. A petition with 330,000 consumer signatures was delivered to the Internet giant at the rally. |
| No Net Brutality
Now that the FCC has proposed a partial reclassification of Internet services from Title I to Title II, rightwing think tanks have come out swinging in defense of their big telecom buddies. |
| Net Neutrality and The Third Way
by Tracy Rosenberg, Huffington Post
On May 6th, FCC Commissioner Julius Genachowski laid out a six-page plan for trying to make everyone happy in the net neutrality battle. It's a big question whether he will succeed. |
| Whose Internet Is It?
First, we had the Supreme Court affirming the free speech rights of corporations. Now we have the DC Court of Appeals telling us Comcast owns the Internet. But they don't. We do.
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| The FCC Bus Hits South by Southwest
The Bay Area's vital response when the FCC came to town in April 2008 to hold a hearing on Comcast throttling is the subject of a new documentary aired at Austin's SXSW. |
| Net Neutrality Laws Lie in FCC Hands
by Terry Johnson, Philadelphia Tribune
The imperfect founders of the Republic anticipated a struggle over freedom of the press. But surely they could not have imagined — and 10 years ago most people could not have imagined — that the democratic potential of the nation might turn on the outcome of a fight over freedom of access to the Internet. |
| Digital Nation: 21st Century America's Progress Towards Universal Broadband
The report samples 4000 households and 129,000 citizens. It's
central idea is that although Broadband internet has transformed the way Americans communicate, for many citizens, Broadband remains out of reach. The report, complete with graph and pie charts, illustrates the gaps in internet access (which demographic groups have it or don’t and why); where it tends to be more accessible, as well why who have access to it chose not to use it.
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 | Raising Our Voices: Empowering Communities and Creating Justice
by Elizabeth Farsaci with some text from Eloise Lee and Dorothy Kidd
Raising Our Voices is an ongoing media training project that works with community leaders to produce content on issues related to immigration, poverty, violence, gender, labor and social justice. |
| New FCC Commissioner Challenges MMTC on Net Neutrality
The Federal Communications Commission's newest Democrat Mignon Clyburn had some interesting comments to make about net neutrality on Friday at the Minority Media and Telecommunications Council's Social Justice summit |
| Comcast Making Some Headway Against FCC in Net Neutrality Appeal
by Joelle Tessler, Associated Press
Comcast is appealing the FCC decision that it violated net neutrality principals by throttling Bit Torrent downloads, a decision made following an en banc hearing at Stanford University in 2008. Here's a report from the US Court of Appeals in DC from the AP. |
| Julius Genachowski, New FCC Chair, Signals He's Ready to Move on Net Neutrality
by Matt Wood, Media Access Project
Update: Great news! The Notice of Proposed Rulemaking passed at the 10-22 FCC meeting. Genachowski's call for immediate action on net neutrality has stirred a strong counter-movement in the telecom sector. See Media Alliance's letter to the FCC prior to an October 22nd meeting where we will find out if the Chairman's call has resonated with his 4 FCC colleagues - 2 Democrats and 2 Republicans. |
| Global Privacy Standards for a Global World
Affirming that privacy is a fundamental human right set out in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, and other human rights instruments and national constitutions; |
| Call for Reviewers: Broadband Technology Opportunities Program
With the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA), President Obama and Congress appropriated an unprecedented $7.2 billion in funds to expand broadband access to all Americans. The U.S. Department of Commerce’s National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) is administering the Broadband Technology Opportunities Program (BTOP) a $4.5 billion grant program to promote broadband deployment, public computer centers and broadband adoption. |
| Speed Matters?
The third annual Speed Matters report on Internet Speeds in America was released today by the Communication Workers of America - and U.S. connection speeds have not improved significantly in the past year. |
| Pulling the Strings
A cute graphic from Free Press you can share illustrating the fingers in the pie as the nation struggles to develop a plan to address the technology divide. |
| Global Broadband
http://www.apc.org
The Association for Progressive Communications (http://www.apc.org) reports on global broadband access victories in South Africa and Bolivia. |
| Nation's Largest ISPs Crafting Fake National Broadband Policy
In order to make sure that no real, substantive ones take shape....
It's generally agreed upon that this nation has no broadband policy whatsoever. We can probably all also agree that actually changing this might be a good idea for a supposed global technology leader. |
| Our Vision for the Future
It's easy to criticize. Too easy. But what is the affirmative vision for a 21st century media that works to advance peace, justice and social responsibility? |
| Net Neutrality 101/FAQ's
What is Net Neutrality about?
When we log onto the Internet, we take a lot for granted. We assume we'll be able to access any Web site we want, whenever we want, at the fastest speed, whether it's a corporate or mom-and-pop site. We assume that we can use any service we like — watching online video, listening to podcasts, sending instant messages — anytime we choose.
What makes all these assumptions possible is Network Neutrality... |
| The Coming Death of DSL
With low-end broadband packages hitting price points that make them commodities, ISPs are starting to rely on high-bandwidth premium services to draw in high profits from their subscribers |
| The Low-Access People: Tiny Grey-Garcia's Notes on the NCMR
It's the snow that appears late at night on our TV... it can reach across oceans and mountain ranges and beyond...it has the potential to provide a channel of access to many independent broadcasters, which is why the big telecoms are trying to seize it,"explained Eloise Rose Lee, from Media Alliance based in California, one of five people speaking at "The Future of the Internet" panel at the National Conference of Media Reform held in Minneapolis last week. |
| The FCC Bus: One Person's Story
I sat in a dark, foreboding hall at Stanford University listening to the words of resistance of Gloria Esteva (staff writer of POOR Magazine/PoorNewsNetwork and member of the Voces de Immigrantes en Resistencia at the Race, Poverty and Media Justice Institute at POOR). As I listened I felt truly inspired. |
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