 | 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. |
 | Community Broadband Map The Institute for Local Self-Reliance prepared this map. The West is lagging badly. |
| The Internet Strikes Back: 59% of the Country Wants to Ensure Access Congress voted to abolish recently-passed lukewarm net neutrality rules. A new Consumer's Union Poll makes it clear the House is out of step with the majority of Americans. |
 | The Internet You Need New animated short and website. |
| 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. |
| Amid Rumors of Google-Verizon Deal, FCC Pulls out of Net Neutrality Industry Talks A series of much-criticized stakeholder meetings on the contentious issue of “network neutrality” or open internet regulations collapsed today as the Federal Communications Commission pulled out of negotiations with AT&T, Google, Verizon and Skype. |
 | Connecting the Issues: USF Reform and Social Justice Don't get how extending Lifeline service to broadband makes a better world? Here is Mag-net's analysis of why Universal Service Fund Reform is a critical issue for a more just country. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
 | Oakland Digs the Gig: Oaktown Joins the Google Scuffle The City of Oakland joined about 600 other communities nationwide today in a competition for the honor of becoming a test-site for Google’s experimental ultra high-speed broadband networks. |
| 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. |
 | Xinjiang residents cope with losing Net access by Cara Anna, Associated Press They arrive at this gritty desert crossroads weary from a 13-hour train ride but determined. The promised land lies just across the railway station plaza: a large, white sign that says "Easy Connection Internet Cafe." |
| Can we have affordable broadband for everyone? Can we afford not to? As advocates fight to convert the promise of an open Internet future into binding net neutrality regulations, the larger issue of affordable access for all looms in the background. Can it be done? |
| Have a Heart: Net Neutrality for Valentine's Day Sign the petition! |
 | 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. |