Category: net neutrality / free the internet!
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Catching up with friends
My pals on the internets have been keeping busy informing the masses about what’s really going on with overlords of our media environment. If you don’t keep up with Matthew Lasar’s Ars Technica articles or John Anderson’s DIYmedia missives, here’s some recent posts you should check out: Matthew reports that FCC Democrat Jonathan Adelstein is…
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FCC Hearing on Broadband and the Digital Future Going On Now
If you enjoy a good FCC hearing now and again, you can watch the hearing live online: http://www.fcc.gov/realaudio/#jul21 If you don’t quite have the four and a half hours to spare you should be able to watch an archive on the FCC website within some reasonable timeframe after the hearing is over. If you prefer…
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Wrap Up on Senate Net Neutrality Hearing
The Benton Foundation has compiled an excellent wrap-up of testimony and press coverage of yesterday’s Senate Commerce Committee hearing on network neutrality.
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Martin’s Straw House of Network Neutrality
After listening to Chairman Martin’s testimony [PDF / webcast] to the Senate Commerce Committee today, along much of his Q&A with members of the committee, I can’t help but think that Martin is really walking a tightrope. On the one hand, he asserts quite confidently that the Commission has the legal right to enforce its…
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Larry Lessig Explains Network Neutrality, now with slides
Stanford law Prof. Larry Lessig apparently recorded his own testimony at the FCC hearing last week, and sync’d it up with his PowerPoint/Keynote slides into a nice little video that he’s posted to his blog. I tuned in too late to catch his presentation last Thursday, and the hearing wasn’t even over by the time…
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Senate Comm Hearing on Net Neutrality Right Now
I didn’t even know it was happening, until I saw Free Press’ tweets this morning. They’re live-twittering it right now if you want to follow along: Martin: Failure to disclose network management practices or tolls would be unreasonable. Actual practice of discrimination may or may not be Dorgan is questioning Martin, trying to make a…
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Stanford Score: Internet Freedom 1, Comcast United 0
I was able to listen to a pretty good portion of the testimony at yesterday’s FCC hearing on broadband network management at Stanford University. My overall impression is that the public interest in a free, open internet got a pretty fair hearing, overall, with even some of the more “free market” economists having to admit…
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Free Press Live Blogging from Stanford FCC Hearing
Free Press is keeping a live blog of the FCC Hearing on Net Neutrality at Stanford University. Looks like at least 300 people have showed up to be in the audience so far. I got too hung up with work to tune in right at 2 PM and the FCC’s RealAudio feeds are all full…
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FCC Net Neutrality Hearing Lineup Announced
The FCC finally announced the lineup for the hearing on Network Management at Stanford University tomorrow, and it looks pretty good, including: Lawrence Lessig, C. Wendell and Edith M. Carlsmith Professor of Law, Stanford Law School; Rick Carnes, President, Songwriters Guild of America; Jean Prewitt, President and Chief Executive Officer, Independent Film & Television Alliance;…
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Round Two on Comcast, Net Neutrality & the FCC
As we talked about extensively on the radioshow, the FCC’s last attempt at holding a hearing on network management and ISPs was somewhat thwarted by Comcast hiring disinterested seat warmers to take up valuable space that otherwise would have gone to interested members of the public. So the Commission is taking another stab at holding…