Pro Net Neutrality: Op-Eds and Editorials
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Everyone Gets a Bonus from Obama’s Net Neutrality Plan
March 23, 2009 - link >>Timothy Karr, The Huffington Post
Buried deep in President Barack Obama’s American Reinvestment and Recovery Act is a line that should bring a smile to your face—and a scowl to phone and cable industry lobbyists.
Cheney, Rove, and Fleischer and the Importance of Net Neutrality
March 18, 2009 - link >>Joseph Palermo, The Huffington Post
Dick Cheney, Karl Rove, Ari Fleischer and other right-wing mouthpieces are trying to frame future debates while they reinvent the George W. Bush years. Their eerie falsehoods, half-truths, revisions, and lies are given added weight because they sit atop a bed of chatter and static, often called the “echo chamber,” of Fox News and right-wing talk radio. Everything that comes out of Cheney’s mouth (or Rove’s or Fleischer’s) is carefully calculated and designed to cast doubt about the current president while whitewashing the disasters of the previous one. Their dire warnings about how President Barack Obama is not “keeping us safe” from terrorists, and their repeated claim that Bush “kept us safe,” starkly reveal their propaganda goals. Cheney’s take on 9-11, Hurricane Katrina, and the budget deficits of the Bush years should send shivers up any rational observer’s spine.
Walled Gardens: Good Or Bad For Consumers?
March 03, 2009 - link >>Steve Robinson, Media Post
The month of February witnessed news, discussions, and potential relationships between cable operators, cable programmers and network broadcasters regarding online distribution of video content. First hulu.com shut down video content distribution to Boxee and TV.com. On the tails of this announcement, the Wall Street Journal reported “top cable-television providers and TV networks are exploring a sweeping solution to the threat of online video: putting large numbers of cable shows online, but accessible only to cable subscribers.”
Net neutrality is key to the Internet’s future, and it’s under threat
February 16, 2009 - link >>Josh Lavoie, straight.com
Unlike many other media, like print, television, and radio, the Internet is largely uncontrolled. Despite the fact that the majority of critical Internet infrastructure is based in the United States, and is therefore subject to the influence of the U.S. government, things remain quite open. The current system of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, which regulates top-level domains, and Tier 1 networks providing backbone infrastructure has worked well, and the Internet has flourished.
Net Neutrality Narrowly Escapes Stimulus Doom
February 13, 2009 - link >>Jason Lee Miller, WebProNews
Feinstein Tries To Slip One In
Though it had nothing do with creating jobs or stimulating the economy and had everything to do with sneaking in a pro-Entertainment industry initiative, Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) almost single-handedly dealt a deadly blow to the Net Neutrality issue.
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