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Our Freedom Of Speech Is In Danger In America

Fox News Phil Kerpen, Americans For Prosperity, Director of Policy and Chairman of Internet Freedom Coalition said, "The FCC is going to decide if we will have freedom to do as we please on the Internet or if the government will have a much heavier hand."

Shocking Coincidence! Republicans, AT&T Unhappy With Proposed Network Neutrality Rules
Source: All Things Digital - Digital Daily

Just hours after Julius Genachowski, chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, unveiled his open Internet proposal, a number of Republican senators stepped forward to oppose it.

Network neutrality in Congress, round 3: Fight!
Source: Ars Technica

Ed Markey (D-MA) is a big fan of "third time's the charm." He has introduced his plan to legislate network neutrality into a third consecutive Congress, and he has a message for ISPs: upgrade your infrastructure and don't even think about blocking or degrading traffic.

Google making a network neutrality detector
Source: Boing Boing

Google has been very vocal on its stance for net neutrality.

UK ISPs threaten to throttle BBC's iPlayer
Source: Ars Technica

UK ISPs teamed up to tell BBC that they would start to throttle their iPlayer service if they didn't pay up because it could overwhelm their networks.

Comcast hindering file-sharing services
Source: Reuters

Comcast Corp. is allegedly hindering some file-sharing services, such as BitTorrent, by slowing down their upload speeds.

The internet is breaking

The featured article of Thursday May 18 2006's Wall Street Journal Online, "The Web's Worst New Idea", calls into question the validity of the debate about Net Neutrality.

Clinton Defends Net Neutrality Position
Source: eweek.com

Sen. Hillary Clinton's campaign said Nov. 15 her long silence on network neutrality should not be interpreted as waning support for the idea of mandating that broadband providers treat all network use in a nondiscriminatory manner.

Rudd must avoid US broadband idea | Australian IT
Source: Australian News Network

The US economy is more successful than any other at fostering and propagating technological innovation, but its regulation of network infrastructure has been something of a black spot and, if anything, is becoming more inconsistent and uncertain, as recent battles over network ne …

Phone Companies Set Off A Battle Over Internet Fees
Source: Wall Street Journal

Phone companies which own the wire connections for the internet could start charging internet search engines for faster speeds.

The Coming Tug of War Over the Internet
Source: The Washington Post

The nation's largest telephone companies have a new business plan, and if it comes to pass you may one day discover that Yahoo suddenly responds much faster to your inquiries, overriding your affinity for Google. Or that Amazon's Web site seems sluggish compared with eBay's.

FCC Says Cable Companies Have Grown Too Big
Source: broadbandreports.com

The FCC has made a decision that the cable industry has gotten too powerful. As a result, they are expected to announce stiff new regulation to curb the growth of major cable companies and open the market to more independent programmers.

Justice Department Opposes 'Net Neutrality' - WSJ.com
Source: Wall Street Journal

USDJ doesnt support net neutrality. Time to write your congressman and let them know that consumers want neutrality.

ISPs to BBC: We will throttle iPlayer unless you pay up
Source: Ars Technica

While the network neutrality debate can sometimes feel a bit theoretical in the US, it's a live issue in Europe, and this week it hit the pages of newspapers across the UK.

Whose Internet is it?, a discourse on Network Neutrality
Source: boulderweekly.com

Imagine. That's the word often used when starting a conversation about the Internet. Perhaps that's because the Internet has ignited an explosion of creative entrepreneurship that equals—and possibly even surpasses—any in human history.

AT&T's Whitacre: 'Nobody Gets a Free Ride'
Source: lightreading.com

AT&T Inc. CEO Ed Whitacre spoke to state utilities regulators in San Francisco Tuesday on a variety of subjects, but the one topic he seemed to want to block out was the issue of network neutrality.

Net Neutrality, In the Eye of the Beholder
Source: The Washington Post

Tech Faceoff: Net Neutrality, In the Eye of the Beholder Stark Contrasts in the Debate Over the Future of the Internet By Kim Hart and Sara Kehaulani Goo Washington Post Staff Writers Sunday, July 2, 2006; Page F04

Senator Obama in Support of Network Neutrality

In the podcast released yesterday by Senator Obama, he stated his support for Net Neutrality. This is an important issue for all Internet users.

Verizon warns financial sector on Net neutrality
Source: CNET

Telcos try to twist the facts so that Americans do not get more bandwidth as in Japan and South Korea.

David Isenberg Speaks Out on Network Neutrality
Source: cyber.law.harvard.edu

David Isenberg says that net neutrality is crucial to the development of the Internet.

Financial services taking an interest in net neutrality?

Speaking of net neutrality, Wired News notes that some of the financial services firms are suddenly noticing that the lack of net neutrality protection in the upcoming telecom bill could result in them paying new access fees.

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