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Posts With The Tag ‘Net Neutrality’
§Ling and Lee: Lucky
Laura Ling and Euna Lee are released from North Korea with the help of Bill Clinton. Is this typical behavior? What about abused and detained journalists around the globe? Or in our own prisons? And a roundup.
Terms: Euna Lee, FCC, Internet Censorship, Journalism, Laura Ling, Media Policy, Net Neutrality, Syndication, Technology
§Quick Roundup
A roundup of news on journalism and press freedoms.
Terms: Investigative Reporting, Journalism, Media Policy, Net Neutrality, New Media, Press Freedom, Privacy
§A Digital Bill of Rights?
Erick Schonfeld of TechCrunch has made an admittedly tall order, calling for a “Digital Bill of Rights.” Who would enforce this, and what would it mean?
Terms: Brookings Institute, Erick Schonfeld, IGF, Net Neutrality, Techcrunch, WSIS
§Stick a Morton’s Fork in it
In a reaction to the FCC decicion (PDF) ordering Comcast to end discriminatory network practices, senior director Sena Fitzmaurice said:
We believe that our network management choices were reasonable, wholly consistent with industry practices and that we did not block access to web sites or online applications, including peer-to-peer services.
Factual records indicate otherwise. Comcast was caught [...]
Terms: Comcast, Craig Moffet, Exaflood, FCC, Free Press, Kevin Martin, Net Neutrality
§BIG BROTHER’S EYES AND TUBES
A lot of institutions, organizations and clout-heavy individuals have aligned behind a movement to provide a free, fast internet to all Americans as a right.
>> Internet For Everyone
Without going into details in regard to implementation, the group enshrines these principles:
Access
Every home, business and civic institution in America must have access to a high-speed, world-class communications [...]
Terms: Net Neutrality, Scott Gant, Shield Law
§VIDEO: FCC HEARS QUALMS & QUERIES
ARTICULATIONS AT STANFORD
Video of event available on VON TV
On April 17th the FCC heard testimony from the likes of:
Lawrence Lessig, C. Wendell and Edith M. Carlsmith – Professors of Law, Stanford Law School
Rick Carnes – President, Songwriters Guild of America
Michele Combs – Christian Coalition of America
George Ou – Independent Consultant and Former Network Engineer
Jon Peha [...]
Terms: FCC, Net Neutrality
§COMCAST LIKES TO PRETEND
WITH PANDO, THEY MIGHT PERSUADE A FEW THEY AREN’T SO BAD
Comcast has released a statement detailing how they plan to work alongside the p2p Pando software to build a “P2P Bill of Rights and Responsibilities,” or BRR, that everyone can agree on.
Everyone, in this case, being only those with a stake in domineering the flow [...]
Terms: Comcast, Filesharing, Intellectual property, Net Neutrality, p2p, Pando
§A DRIVING FORCE
Cecilia Kang of The Washington Post has written a piece detailing the quiet pressure cooker that is Ben Scott.
The article can be read here.
Terms: Ben Scott, Free Press, Media Policy, Net Neutrality
§DVORAK V. KESSLER
In the ongoing prolific squabbles over net neutrality, many knights of the laissez-faire school of “freedom of dollars = innovation” are inadvertently tripping head first into the debate without adequate forethought.
Enter Mr. Andy Kessler, who wholeheartedly believes that net neutrality is an inevitable bane on the advent of technological advance within telecommunications. His stance [...]
Terms: Andy Kessler, Bandwith Throttling, Comcast, John Dvorak, Net Neutrality, packet sniffing, Politics, Privatization
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