While my friends at PK get to enjoy the fun and toys at CES (someone pick me up a free Sling Box!), I am off to Memphis Tennessee for Free Press' National Conference on Media Reform (although I expect some of my friends now at CES will likewise join me there).
NCMR will bring together a large number of folks (over 3000) who care about issues central to the information commons: how to prevent a few gatekeepers from controlling the flow of information. On the agenda will include spectrum reform, network neutrality, franchising and cable public access, and media ownership.
One of the things NCMR underscores is the width, depth and complexity of the fight to prevent monopolization and propertization of information. As most folks by now realize, information does not "want" to be free any more than it "wants" to be owned or scarce. It's all about policy choices, and whether we as citizens chose to push for the right policy choices.
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NCMR will bring together a large number of folks (over 3000) who care about issues central to the information commons: how to prevent a few gatekeepers from controlling the flow of information. On the agenda will include spectrum reform, network neutrality, franchising and cable public access, and media ownership.
One of the things NCMR underscores is the width, depth and complexity of the fight to prevent monopolization and propertization of information. As most folks by now realize, information does not "want" to be free any more than it "wants" to be owned or scarce. It's all about policy choices, and whether we as citizens chose to push for the right policy choices.
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NCMR will bring together a large number of folks (over 3000) who care about issues central to the information commons: how to prevent a few gatekeepers from controlling the flow of information. On the agenda will include spectrum reform, network neutrality, franchising and cable public access, and media ownership.
One of the things NCMR underscores is the width, depth and complexity of the fight to prevent monopolization and propertization of information. As most folks by now realize, information does not "want" to be free any more than it "wants" to be owned or scarce. It's all about policy choices, and whether we as citizens chose to push for the right policy choices.
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NCMR will bring together a large number of folks (over 3000) who care about issues central to the information commons: how to prevent a few gatekeepers from controlling the flow of information. On the agenda will include spectrum reform, network neutrality, franchising and cable public access, and media ownership.
One of the things NCMR underscores is the width, depth and complexity of the fight to prevent monopolization and propertization of information. As most folks by now realize, information does not "want" to be free any more than it "wants" to be owned or scarce. It's all about policy choices, and whether we as citizens chose to push for the right policy choices.
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