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Congress pushes for ‘Internet Freedom’ as U.N. showdown looms

Mon, 22 Apr 2013 00:00:00 -0700

Yahoo! News - Apr. 22 (News Analysis) - The House is pushing forward in an effort to block a United Nations-related group from potentially allowing countries to censor the Internet, before an international showdown this fall.

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Senate Set to Vote on Neutering Net Neutrality

Mon, 07 Nov 2011 22:53:00 -0800

Wired - By David Kravets - Nov. 07 (News) - WASHINGTON, D.C — The Senate is likely to vote within days on a measure that would undo net-neutrality rules adopted by the Federal Communications Commission in 2010, even though they’ve yet to go into effect. One of the lead sponsor’s of Senate Journal

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We need a serious critique of net activism

Fri, 28 Jan 2011 00:00:00 -0800

The Guardian - By Cory Doctorow - Jan. 28 (Editorial) - The Net Delusion argues that technology isn't necessarily good for freedom – but how else can the oppressed have a voice?

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FCC Passes Compromise Net Neutrality Rules

Tue, 21 Dec 2010 00:00:00 -0800

Wired - By Sam Gustin - Dec. 21 (News Report) - The FCC passes landmark, but compromise, rules that ban the nation's internet service providers from blocking or slowing down the content that internet users want to see. The rules are likely to face a court challenge soon, however.

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Obama FCC Caves on Net Neutrality -- Tuesday Betrayal Assured

Tue, 21 Dec 2010 00:00:00 -0800

Huffington Post - By Timothy Karr - Dec. 21 (Opinion) - The net neutrality rule, which will be voted in during tomorrow's FCC meeting, falls drastically short of earlier pledges by President Obama and the FCC Chairman to protect the free and open Internet.

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FCC Net Neutrality Rules Slammed from All Sides

Mon, 20 Dec 2010 00:00:00 -0800

Wired - By Ryan Singel - Dec. 20 (News Analysis) - The federal government’s new internet fairness rules — aimed at preventing the nation’s cable and DSL internet service providers from meddling with the open, free-wheeling nature of the internet — were met with loud criticism Monday night from all sides of the political spectrum.

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Faster cellphones to bring a wave of new services and charges

Tue, 30 Nov 2010 00:00:00 -0800

Washington Post - By Cecilia Kang - Nov. 30 (News) - If you think cellphone bills are complicated now, just wait.

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Netflix Partner Says Comcast 'Toll' Threatens Online Video Delivery

Mon, 29 Nov 2010 00:00:00 -0800

New York Times - By Brian Stelter - Nov. 29 (News) - Level 3 Communications, a supplier of the Internet backbone for Netflix, said Monday that Comcast had effectively set up a tollbooth around its broadband Internet network.

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Debunking the Internet apocalypse

Mon, 16 Aug 2010 00:00:00 -0700

CNET News - By Marguerite Reardon - Aug. 16 (Opinion) - As I read the criticism of Google and Verizon's supposed evil plan to demolish the Internet, and as I hear about "protests" of several dozen people at Google's headquarters, I scratch my head and wonder: am I missing something?

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Net Neutrality Protesters Call for Google to Stand Tall

Sat, 14 Aug 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Wired - By Ryan Singel - Aug. 14 (News Report) - Protestors of Google's perceived betrayal of net openness rules convened with signs and songs at the Mountain View Google campus on August 13, 2010.

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A paper trail of betrayal: Google's net neutrality collapse

Wed, 11 Aug 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Ars Technica - By Matthew Lasar - Aug. 11 (News Analysis) - A Tale of Two Googles — we compare Google's earlier filings on net neutrality with this week's Google/Verizon manifesto and ask, "What happened?"

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More on Net Neutrality: Parsing Through Google and Verizon’s ‘Policy Announcement’

Tue, 10 Aug 2010 00:00:00 -0700

ProPublica - By Marian Wang - Aug. 10 (News Analysis) - Journalism in the public interest. Last week, we touched upon the net neutrality issue to help explain and add context to the buzz around a forthcoming Google-Verizon deal. That "deal," as you may have heard, was announced on Monday. The first thing

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The real Google-Verizon Net neutrality story

Tue, 10 Aug 2010 00:00:00 -0700

ZDNet - By Christopher Dawson - Aug. 10 (News Report) - There has been an incredible amount of mud-slinging and hand-wringing over a perceived back office deal by Google and Verizon, both of whom, if you listen to most reports, are hell-bent on destroying the Internet for their own gains. Thanks for that, New York Times. Google and Verizon, however, are finally speaking out on the issue with more than adamant denials of the Times’ piece and the related media frenzy.

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From Google and Verizon, a path to an open Internet

Tue, 10 Aug 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Washington Post - By Eric Schmidt, Ivan Seidenberg - Aug. 10 (Editorial) - We believe this public policy framework empowers an informed consumer, ensures the robust growth of the open Internet and provides incentives to strengthen the networks that carry Internet traffic.

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A Net Game for Google?

Sat, 07 Aug 2010 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Robert X Cringely - Aug. 07 (Opinion) - Google has always been firmly on the side of net neutrality. So the news of a deal between Google and Verizon — one of the country’s largest broadband service providers — has caused consternation throughout geekdom. Has Google turned on its principles? The company says no, but then Eric Schmidt, its chief executive, has been making murky statements differentiating between wireless and wired data, suggesting to some a repudiation of neutrality. The truth is probably that Google has found a way to get special treatment from Verizon but without actually compromising net neutrality.

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Google and Verizon in Talks on Selling Internet Priority

Wed, 04 Aug 2010 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Edward Wyatt - Aug. 04 (News Report) - Google and Verizon, two leading players in Internet service and content, are nearing an agreement that could allow Verizon to speed some online content to Internet users more quickly if the content’s creators are willing to pay for the privilege.

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Big biz wants to own the information superhighway while We the People bump along the backroads

Fri, 16 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Hightower Lowdown - By Jim Hightower - Jul. 16 (Opinion) - four telephone and cable giants: AT&T, Comcast, Time Warner, and Verizon. This cabal of special interests controls 94 percent of the national ISP market, and the monopolistic group is now asserting its market dominance and political muscle in an autocratic effort to impose corporate censorship over what information the public will be allowed to get via the internet.

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The FCC and Internet Broadband

Fri, 07 May 2010 00:00:00 -0700

The Writing Corner - By Beth Wellington - May. 07 (Opinion) - Verizon and other broadband providers also have bankrolled astroturf campaigns in which pr firms and think tanks organize alleged grass roots support for the corporate agenda against regulation.

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Judge sides with censored blogger against Chinese ISP - Ars Technica

Tue, 26 May 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Ars Technica - By Jacqui Cheng - May. 26 (News Report) - Do not adjust your monitors: a Chinese government critic has won a court case against his ISP in Beijing for taking his website offline. Economics professor Hu Xingdou's website was shut down by Beijing Xin Net for containing "illegal" content earlier this year, but a Daxing district court ruled last week that the ISP could not provide proof for its claims and ordered Xin Net to repay Hu's service fees from the past two years.

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Google accused of turning its back on Net neutrality | Politics and Law

Mon, 15 Dec 2008 00:00:00 -0800

CNET News - By Declan McCullagh - Dec. 15 (Opinion) - The problem with defining Net neutrality so the government can regulate it is a little like the problem of defining obscenity so the government can ban it: You know it when you see it.

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Dems to the Net: Go to hell

Sun, 24 Dec 2006 19:37:41 -0800

lessig blog - By Lawrence Lessig - Dec. 24 (Opinion) - "Radical" changes in Washington always have this Charlie Brown/Lucy-like character (remember Lucy holding the football?): it doesn't take long before you realize how little really ever changes in DC. The latest example is the Dems and IP issues as they affect the Net. Message to the Net from the newly Democratic House? Go to hell. As everyone knows, one issue critical to those who are making the Net interesting (for politics at least) is IP reform. Not "reform" in the sense of the last decade (e.g., Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act, DMCA, NET Act, etc.), but real reform designed to make IP laws work sensibly in the digital age. Real reform -- not the piddly full-employment-act-for-lawyers reform proposed by the Copyright Office for "orphan works," or the puny reform suggested for digital libraries. Instead, reform that tries to fit the legitimate objectives of copyright -- to assure that artists have the incentives they need to create great new work -- into the contours of digital technology.

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