Perhaps this is nothing new, but I’m starting to really notice a severe lack of awareness of critical traditions within the A-list blogosphere/digerati culture. Back in March, Andrew took note of a proposal to create a new “interdisciplinary discipline’ of Critical Information Studies, which he concluded, “sounds very like the areas covered by Political Economy […]
Archive | April, 2006
Want To Know What the Telcos Are Really Up To? Ask the Guys on the Line.
By Paul on April 24, 2006 in media ownership & consolidation, net neutrality / free the internet!, telecomm
Craig Newmark, of Craigslist fame, was in on today’s SaveTheInternet conference call, too, though he kept his few comments pretty short. But he brought one very interesting insight to the table, addressing one of the telco lobby’s loudest arguments against network neutrality: the likes of AT&T and Verizon haven’t discriminated against any internet content yet, […]
A Right-Wing Perspective on Saving the Internet as We Know It
By Paul on April 24, 2006 in media ownership & consolidation, net neutrality / free the internet!, telecomm
I just finished listening in to a national conference call put on by the SaveTheInternet campaign. The call was advertised to reporters as a meeting of “strange bedfellows,” because in addition to usual suspects from Public Knowledge and Consumer Federation of America there was the inclusion of Craig Fields from Gun Owner’s of America. Fields […]
Pushing Net Neutrality: Coalition to Save the Internet
By Paul on April 22, 2006 in media ownership & consolidation, net neutrality / free the internet!, networks, telecomm
If one thing has become clear with this year’s session in Congress, it’s that some serious organizing has to happen if our congresscritters are going to be pressured into keeping the internet free of speedbumps and corporate-imposed taxes. Legislators might get the issues, but they need to be convinced that their constituents care about them. […]
How Do You Sell Neutrality?
Josh Breitbart of MediaTank and Clamor has been blogging lately, and raises a really good question about the framing of the network neutrality debate: Only a Democrat would think people could get excited about neutrality. What’s the opposite of “neutral”? Non-neutral… Partisan… In gear…? The same issue has been bugging me, but I haven’t been […]