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Net Neutrality: A Crucial Issue With a Lame Name

[Source: The Huffington Post, by Tina Dupuy, September 7, 2010]
The term "net neutrality" has the magical property of making most people's eyes glaze over. First, it sounds like a gambling term. "I have a system and net neutrality -- I can't lose!" Second, no ...

International Perspectives on Network Neutrality 2010

[Source: Global Media Journal Canadian Edition, by effrey Layne Blevins & Leslie Regan Shade, August 31, 2010]
The current issue of Global Media Journal focuses on Net Neutrality and traffic management issues in Canada, the US and around the world. Multiple editorials and research papers offer global ...

The 2000s: A History of the FCC’s Internet Policy Deregulation

[Source: Media Access Project, by Kamilla Kovacs, August 30, 2010]
Throughout years of debate on open Internet protections, cable and telecommunications carriers have continually argued that strong net neutrality rules will hurt investment. They maintain that ...

ZeroDivide BTOP Mash-Up Cut-Up Smash-Up

[Source: ZeroDivide, by Tim Wu, August 23, 2010]
A blog post by ZeroDivide's Tim WuZeroDivide received two federal stimulus funding awards totalling more than $2 million.  We've been interviewed about these awards from Honolulu to Seattle, ...

Benton Foundation Reply Comments to the FCC: In the Matter of Framework for Broadband Internet Service

[Source: The Benton Foundation, by Amina Fazlullah and Alexandra Wood, August 12, 2010]
Please see attached reply comments from the Benton Foundation on the Framework for Broadband Internet Service. 

FCC's Plan for 'Net Neutrality' Rules Falters

[Source: LA Times, by Editorial, August 7, 2010]
The FCC has halted discussions amid reports spread that Google and Verizon will propose their own, less regulatory framework for Net neutrality.

F.C.C. Chief Opposes Fees for Internet Priority

[Source: The New York Times, by Edward Wyatt, August 5, 2010]
The chairman of the Federal Communications Commission said Thursday that he believed it was “unacceptable” for Internet service providers to offer faster Internet transmission to content providers ...

Lots of Internet Competition -- Just Not at Home

[Source: Washington Post, by John Dunbar, August 3, 2010]
Guest post from John Dunbar of American University’s Investigative Reporting Workshop. John Dunbar and Cecilia Kang are working together on a project for the next several months looking at ...

On Defining the Third Way

[Source: Benton Foundation, by Amina Fazlullah and Alexandra Wood, August 3, 2010]
Regarding Reclassification:  A series of blog posts exploring the legal landscape of Communications Act Title I and II reclassification

48 Members Of Congress Tell FCC To Back Off Broadband Action

[Source: Broadcasting & Cable, by John Eggerton, July 30, 2010]
Reps. Gene Green (D-Tex.) and Fred Upton (R-Mich.) have introduced a concurrent resolution asking the FCC to hold off on reclassifying broadband or clarifying and expanding network neutrality regs ...