Network Neutrality

The Internet Strikes Back to Save Net Neutrality

This week, Congress is going to begin to decide if it wants to support the idea of Net Neutrality.  It is going to start examining whether the government should ever be able to step in if Internet Service Providers (ISPs) decide to pick and choose which websites and services work, and which ones do not.  It will start considering a bill that would not only repeal the FCC’s current Net Neutrality regulations, but also prevent the FCC from making any Net Neutrality rules in the future.

On Thursday The Internet Strikes Back and tells Congress to support Net Neutrality and to vote against that bill.  Join the campaign and sign up to call Congress on Thursday.



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This week, Congress is going to begin to decide if it wants to support the idea of Net Neutrality.  It is going to start examining whether the government should ever be able to step in if Internet Service Providers (ISPs) decide to pick and choose which websites and services work, and which ones do not.  It will start considering a bill that would not only repeal the FCC’s current Net Neutrality regulations, but also prevent the FCC from making any Net Neutrality rules in the future.

On Thursday The Internet Strikes Back and tells Congress to support Net Neutrality and to vote against that bill.  Join the campaign and sign up to call Congress on Thursday.

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This week, Congress is going to begin to decide if it wants to support the idea of Net Neutrality.  It is going to start examining whether the government should ever be able to step in if Internet Service Providers (ISPs) decide to pick and choose which websites and services work, and which ones do not.  It will start considering a bill that would not only repeal the FCC’s current Net Neutrality regulations, but also prevent the FCC from making any Net Neutrality rules in the future.

On Thursday The Internet Strikes Back and tells Congress to support Net Neutrality and to vote against that bill.  Join the campaign and sign up to call Congress on Thursday.

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This week, Congress is going to begin to decide if it wants to support the idea of Net Neutrality.  It is going to start examining whether the government should ever be able to step in if Internet Service Providers (ISPs) decide to pick and choose which websites and services work, and which ones do not.  It will start considering a bill that would not only repeal the FCC’s current Net Neutrality regulations, but also prevent the FCC from making any Net Neutrality rules in the future.

On Thursday The Internet Strikes Back and tells Congress to support Net Neutrality and to vote against that bill.  Join the campaign and sign up to call Congress on Thursday.

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PK In the Know Podcast

On this week's podcast we talk about the week ahead for Net Neutrality and discuss the LAMPlatoon, an innovative program that uses fair use to teach kids media literacy.

You can download the audio directly by clicking here (MP3) or stream it using the player below:

Want to subscribe to our podcast? Click here for the MP3 feed.



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On this week's podcast we talk about the week ahead for Net Neutrality and discuss the LAMPlatoon, an innovative program that uses fair use to teach kids media literacy.

You can download the audio directly by clicking here (MP3) or stream it using the player below:

Want to subscribe to our podcast? Click here for the MP3 feed.

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On this week's podcast we talk about the week ahead for Net Neutrality and discuss the LAMPlatoon, an innovative program that uses fair use to teach kids media literacy.

You can download the audio directly by clicking here (MP3) or stream it using the player below:

Want to subscribe to our podcast? Click here for the MP3 feed.

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You can download the audio directly by clicking here (MP3) or stream it using the player below:

Want to subscribe to our podcast? Click here for the MP3 feed.

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Congressional Review Act Repeal of Network Neutrality Would End an Open Internet

The process that will lead to a definitive vote in Congress on an open Internet begins this month.  Opponents to an open Internet have made clear that despite the support from AT&T and the cable industry, they intend to invoke the nuclear option known as the Congressional Review Act (CRA).  They have stated, despite significant corporate support (and significant dissent from public interest groups) that the Federal Communications Commission's open Internet rules resemble George Orwell's 1984 Big Brother.  That is quite the departure from our perspective that the FCC rules appear barely adequate.



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The process that will lead to a definitive vote in Congress on an open Internet begins this month.  Opponents to an open Internet have made clear that despite the support from AT&T and the cable industry, they intend to invoke the nuclear option known as the Congressional Review Act (CRA).  They have stated, despite significant corporate support (and significant dissent from public interest groups) that the Federal Communications Commission's open Internet rules resemble George Orwell's 1984 Big Brother.  That is quite the departure from our perspective that the FCC rules appear barely adequate.

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PK In the Know Podcast

On today's podcast, we discuss recent developments with Net Neutrality and the Creator's Freedom Project.  We also consider Amazon's newly announced Kindle Singles and the availability of One Too Many Mornings on Hulu.

You can download the audio directly by clicking here (MP3) or stream it using the player below:

Want to subscribe to our podcast? Click here for the MP3 feed.



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On today's podcast, we discuss recent developments with Net Neutrality and the Creator's Freedom Project.  We also consider Amazon's newly announced Kindle Singles and the availability of One Too Many Mornings on Hulu.

You can download the audio directly by clicking here (MP3) or stream it using the player below:

Want to subscribe to our podcast? Click here for the MP3 feed.

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On today's podcast, we discuss recent developments with Net Neutrality and the Creator's Freedom Project.  We also consider Amazon's newly announced Kindle Singles and the availability of One Too Many Mornings on Hulu.

You can download the audio directly by clicking here (MP3) or stream it using the player below:

Want to subscribe to our podcast? Click here for the MP3 feed.

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You can download the audio directly by clicking here (MP3) or stream it using the player below:

Want to subscribe to our podcast? Click here for the MP3 feed.

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Will FCC and Congress Sabotage Obama State of the Union High Tech Goals?

President Obama’s State of the Union speech last night certainly hit quite a few high notes for the tech community.  There were a half dozen mentions of the Internet, shout-outs to Facebook and Google and a mention of better use of wireless spectrum.

He certainly set an ambitious goal: “Within the next five years, we’ll make it possible for businesses to deploy the next generation of high-speed wireless coverage to 98 percent of all Americans.”  What he didn’t say was that his Federal Communications Commission (FCC) chairman, Julius Genachowski, has sentenced all of those wireless users to a second-class Internet experience by leaving them out of the already vague Net Neutrality order issued in December.



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He certainly set an ambitious goal: “Within the next five years, we’ll make it possible for businesses to deploy the next generation of high-speed wireless coverage to 98 percent of all Americans.”  What he didn’t say was that his Federal Communications Commission (FCC) chairman, Julius Genachowski, has sentenced all of those wireless users to a second-class Internet experience by leaving them out of the already vague Net Neutrality order issued in December.
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He certainly set an ambitious goal: “Within the next five years, we’ll make it possible for businesses to deploy the next generation of high-speed wireless coverage to 98 percent of all Americans.”  What he didn’t say was that his Federal Communications Commission (FCC) chairman, Julius Genachowski, has sentenced all of those wireless users to a second-class Internet experience by leaving them out of the already vague Net Neutrality order issued in December.
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He certainly set an ambitious goal: “Within the next five years, we’ll make it possible for businesses to deploy the next generation of high-speed wireless coverage to 98 percent of all Americans.”  What he didn’t say was that his Federal Communications Commission (FCC) chairman, Julius Genachowski, has sentenced all of those wireless users to a second-class Internet experience by leaving them out of the already vague Net Neutrality order issued in December.
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sshh -- Republicans Support Net Neutrality

In a couple of weeks, the new Republican majority in the House will probably start hearings on the Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC) Net Neutrality policy.  The House majority already officially opened its campaign against a free and open Internet, with the two leading lights, Rep. Marsha Blackburn (Tenn.) and Mary Bono Mack (Cal.) out in front with speeches and petitions.

But before we get to them, let’s share a little secret. Don’t tell Blackburn or Bono Mack, but two Republicans have already voted for Net Neutrality.  They can fudge it all they want, but the two Republicans on the FCC, Commissioners Robert McDowell and Meredith Atwell Baker, cast their votes for the Comcast takeover of NBC.  And in that takeover order was a merger condition, enforceable by the FCC, for Comcast to run a non-discriminatory, neutral network. 



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But before we get to them, let’s share a little secret. Don’t tell Blackburn or Bono Mack, but two Republicans have already voted for Net Neutrality.  They can fudge it all they want, but the two Republicans on the FCC, Commissioners Robert McDowell and Meredith Atwell Baker, cast their votes for the Comcast takeover of NBC.  And in that takeover order was a merger condition, enforceable by the FCC, for Comcast to run a non-discriminatory, neutral network. 
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But before we get to them, let’s share a little secret. Don’t tell Blackburn or Bono Mack, but two Republicans have already voted for Net Neutrality.  They can fudge it all they want, but the two Republicans on the FCC, Commissioners Robert McDowell and Meredith Atwell Baker, cast their votes for the Comcast takeover of NBC.  And in that takeover order was a merger condition, enforceable by the FCC, for Comcast to run a non-discriminatory, neutral network. 
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In a couple of weeks, the new Republican majority in the House will probably start hearings on the Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC) Net Neutrality policy.  The House majority already officially opened its campaign against a free and open Internet, with the two leading lights, Rep. Marsha Blackburn (Tenn.) and Mary Bono Mack (Cal.) out in front with speeches and petitions.

But before we get to them, let’s share a little secret. Don’t tell Blackburn or Bono Mack, but two Republicans have already voted for Net Neutrality.  They can fudge it all they want, but the two Republicans on the FCC, Commissioners Robert McDowell and Meredith Atwell Baker, cast their votes for the Comcast takeover of NBC.  And in that takeover order was a merger condition, enforceable by the FCC, for Comcast to run a non-discriminatory, neutral network. 
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Senator Cantwell's Net Neutrality Bill: Clear, Simple, and Effective

Today, Senator Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.) introduced the Internet Freedom, Broadband Promotion, and Consumer Protection Act of 2011 to the Senate. Senator Al Franken (D-Minn.) cosponsored. The bill is a model of clarity, because it starts from a simple premise: What’s best for consumers, and what will best protect the open and democratic character of the Internet? The bill answers that question, by setting up short, simple, no-loopholes rules of the road that ensure that the companies that control the onramps to the Internet don’t get to extend that control and begin determining the shape of commerce and speech online.



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Public Knowledge Calls Verizon Net Neutrality Filings ‘Too Cute’

The following is attributed to Harold Feld, legal director of Public Knowledge:

 “We are disappointed that Verizon is trying to play legal games with an issue as important as an open Internet.  On one hand, they jumped the gun and filed an appeal in the U.S. Appeals Court for the D.C. circuit based on the idea that they are a wireless company and that their license is affected by the Net Neutrality rules. The D.C. Circuit is the only court designated to hear license challenges. Normally, license challenges relate to an individual company’s operation, not to a rulemaking that affects everyone.  Challenges to rulemakings can be heard in any federal appellate circuit.

 “Verizon also filed a motion to have the same group of judges which decided the Comcast case hear their challenge to the Net Neutrality rules.  However, the Comcast case was a cable case – not a wireless case.  Verizon can’t have it both ways.

What The Department of Justice Order In Comcast/NBCU Tells Us

In all the hoo ha about the Comcast/NBCU Merger, few folks troubled to read the Department of Justice Competitive Impact Statement, Complaint, and Consent Decree. That’s rather unfortunate, as these documents sets forth a straightforward case under the antitrust laws for program access conditions for online competitors and for network neutrality. Here’s the short version:  Comcast pre-merger makes almost 30 times more money from providing cable service than from programming revenues. Even adding all of NBCU’s revenue, Comcast will still make more than twice as much from selling cable service ($34 billion) as from programming ($16.9 billion).



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