Net Neutrality Links 01-06-2008

Perhaps you don’t believe it is a First Amendment issue but I do. Make sure to read Constance Cumbey.

Couldn’t Help But Notice (123007)
By TBlumer
Google, with its transparently self-interested advocacy of “Net Neutrality,” is already engaging in rent-seeking and position-cementing behavior. Its (and Yahoo’s) willingness to sell out to the Chinese police state reveals the …

Another confused anti-Neutrality Op-Ed
An anti-Net Neutrality Op-Ed in today’s Seattle Times, Hysteria Makes for Bad Law, by information technology provider Avis Yates Rivers, is so riddled with omissions and sloppy logic, I do not know where to start taking it apart. …

The Year in First Amendment Rights: Victories
By blog@aclu.org (James Tucker, Policy Counsel, ACLU)
This week, I’ll be blogging in more detail about net neutrality; internet censorship; national security and free speech; television censorship; and media consolidation and free speech. We hope that 2008 will promise greater protections …

What Will 2008 Bring?
By Matthew Woolums
I also think that Net Neutrality will be both more important, and more imperiled. Oh, and of course, something will come along that I didn’t expect, I probably won’t understand, and I’ll dismiss it as an unimportant passing fad, …

(Here’s Hoping That) The Emotional Center Cannot Hold
By tekel
GE’s approach to running NBC news, and the general phenomenon of ratings-driven news, is the very best argument for why net neutrality is essential to the future of American democracy.

Dorothy Margraf has CRITICAL infomation for us
By Constance Cumbey(Constance Cumbey)
If passed it will be another step toward creating an internet policing apparatus complete with watch-lists and user profiles and all the follies associated with the suppression of civil liberties online.If you thought net neutrality was …

How the Grinches Stole Net Neutrality
ISPs in the United States and Canada are trying to equate peer-to-peer file sharing with illegal content pirating in order to justify their violations of Net Neutrality. But their argument is just a clever smokescreen to mask their true …

CNet quizzes the Presidential candidates on technology
By Martin
CNet’s Declan McCullagh and Anne Broache sent 10 technology-oriented questions to the candidates, discussing net neutrality, Internet taxation, REAL ID, wiretapping, and other issues, and CNet has published the answers as part of their …

Setting the Stage for a People-Powered Web in 2008
By Timothy Karr
Hillary Clinton `pledged her support for Net Neutrality in January. In May, John Edwards called for true open access while standing alongside millions of activists who support Net Neutrality. Barack Obama’s unveiled a comprehensive open …

Cisco Charts New Course
eWeek – New York, NY
I’m thinking specifically about net neutrality. For me, the question with net neutrality is: What are we trying to accomplish? We’re trying to get broadband …