What is Net Neutrality?
Net neutrality is a debate over the future direction of the Internet. NetCompetition advocates continuing a free market Internet and opposes a government-run Internet. Net neutrality advocates activist regulation of broadband prices, terms, and conditions.
PFF Thierer’s Outstanding Case Against Net Neutrality
Fri, 26 Feb 2010 17:16:56 +0000 Progress and Freedom Foundation President Adam Thierer is one of the very best free market minds on all things Internet. Please take the time to review Adam’s outstanding five-part case against net neutrality regulation that he pulled together for his debate with FreePress’ Ben Scott at Catholic University’s recent annual FCC confab in DC. I always [...]
Must-read Swanson Op-ed: The White House-FCC Jobs Clash
Fri, 26 Feb 2010 11:37:15 +0000 Don’t miss Digital Society’s Bret Swanson’s outstanding op-ed in the Huffington Post that spotlights the huge disconnect between the White House’s top priority of creating jobs, and the FCC’s Open Internet regulation plans that are obviously big net job killers. Common sense dictates that heavily regulating a healthy and economic broadband sector with unnecessary and [...]
Foundem FCC Filing Documents Google search network discrimination; Window into EU-Google antitrust case
Wed, 24 Feb 2010 10:12:37 +0000 Foundem, a UK vertical search competitor to Google, documents serial anticompetitive discrimination on Google’s search network, in a data-driven filing to the FCC in the FCC’s Open Internet regulation proceeding. It is logical that the data-driven analysis in Foundem’s public FCC filing is an integral part of Foundem’s antitrust case against Google, which Foundem recently [...]
Real Discrimination Goobris — Google’s hiding its EEO track record
Tue, 23 Feb 2010 15:14:06 +0000 Kudos to Mike Swift of the Mercury News for his important article about how Google “says the race and gender of its workforce is a trade secret that cannot be released.” Google and four other Silicon Valley companies opposed the paper’s FOIA request for summary equal employment opportunity data, while most other companies like Cisco, [...]
Must read Broadband industry letter to FCC: Title II reclassification would do incalcuable harm
Mon, 22 Feb 2010 19:23:33 +0000 Filed under: FCC, Investing, Net Neutrality, Open Internet, Universal Broadband
Will Google Stop Censoring Search Results in China per its Pledge? New GoogleMonitor.com Ticker
Mon, 22 Feb 2010 15:27:56 +0000 GoogleMonitor.com For Immediate Release February 22, 2010 Contact: Scott Cleland 703-217-2407 Media@GoogleMonitor.com Will Google Stop Censoring Search Results in China per its Pledge? GoogleMonitor.com Announces Google China Censorship Pledge Accountability Ticker WASHINGTON – GoogleMonitor.com has installed a ticker on its homepage at www.GoogleMonitor.com to hold Google accountable to its high-profile pledge on January 12, 2010: “We have decided we are [...]
NARUC proves more reasonable than FCC — see great post by Matt Turk of Digital Society
Fri, 19 Feb 2010 11:32:02 +0000 Kudos to Matt Turk of Digital Society for his very insightful post spotlighting how NARUC understands the need for reasonable discrimination in the real world that the FCC apparently does not understand in its proposed Open Internet regulations. Matt Turk: “By urging a move from non-discrimination to unreasonable discrimination, they recognize that “big dumb pipes” are [...]
How much should Google be subsidized?
Wed, 17 Feb 2010 14:38:14 +0000 Pending FCC policy proposals in the National Broadband Plan and the Open Internet regulation proceeding would vastly expand the implicit multi-billion dollar subisidies Google already enjoys, as by far the largest user of Internet bandwidth and the smallest contributor to the Internet’s cost relative to its use. Interestingly, the FCC’s largely Google-driven policy proposals effectively [...]
FCC Chairman’s “broadband engine” speech raises big questions
Tue, 16 Feb 2010 18:49:23 +0000 FCC Chairman Genachowski’s speech to NARUC: “Broadband: Our Enduring Engine for Prosperity and Opportunity” raises some big open questions. The biggest open question is whether Chairman Genachowski believes the titular “broadband engine” of his speech should remain a private sector “engine” that is private property and fueled by profit and investment returns, or whether the [...]
“Boldly Deceptive: FreePress’ extreme agenda in their own words” — great Americans for Prosperity report
Tue, 16 Feb 2010 17:51:57 +0000 Kudos to Phil Kerpen of Americans for Prosperity for their spot-on report of quotes from FreePress that exposes what FreePress is really all about. Their report shows, in FreePress’ own words, that they are a dystopian nightmare masquerading as a public interest group protecting freedom of the press. Filed under: Conflict of Interest, Congress, FCC, Fraud, [...]
