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  • A Victory for AT&T's Shareholders
    Josh Levy,
    April 27, 2012

    UPDATE May 11, 2012: Another set of shareholders has achieved victory! This week, nearly eight percent of Verizon shareholders voted in favor of a proposal that would require the giant carrier to commit to Net Neutrality principles. 

    Like last month's AT&T win, this vote passes the three-percent threshold needed to ensure that the issue remains on the ballot next year — giving shareholders time to organize support for positive change from within. 

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  • AT&T to Louisiana: No More Phone Books for You
    amalia deloney,
    May 11, 2012

    Recently AT&T requested that the Louisiana Public Service Commission stop the delivery of residential white pages to every home. Highlighting the growth of cellphones and the Internet, the company told the commission that “the traditional residential white page telephone directory no longer provides the same utility it once did as customers are now turning less and less to the residential white pages directory and are looking to online and other resources for listing information.”

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  • Free Press Joins Other Groups in Opposing Senate Cybersecurity Legislation
    Josh Levy,
    May 11, 2012

    This week, Free Press joined a wide-ranging array of groups in signing a letter opposing a cybersecurity bill under consideration in the Senate. 

    The bill — the Cyber Security Act of 2012 (S. 2105) — is co-sponsored by Sens. Joe Lieberman and Susan Collins. Like the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act, which passed last month in the House, this bill would make it easier for companies like Facebook and Google to share our personal information with federal authorities. 

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  • AT&T Whines; Reader Rebuts
    Josh Levy,
    May 8, 2012

    Last week, tech site Gizmodo wrote about AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson's comment that he regrets introducing unlimited data plans for iPhone users — because they actually used them.

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  • Dear Hulu: You're Doing It Wrong
    Candace Clement,
    May 4, 2012

    This is a love story about television. My love story about television.

    I cut the cable cord a long time ago. The cost was too high and the majority of channels offered were, well, mediocre at best. I got by for years on my new favorite format: TV on DVD. I bought box sets and spent hours soaking up the plotlines from Six Feet Under and the West Wing. I became a series binger — that is, I would complete what took those poor regular cable subscribers years in the course of a few weeks (OK, sometimes it was a few days).

    I was feeling pretty proud of myself.

    Then streaming television started.

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  • No More Hulu for You
    Josh Levy,
    May 1, 2012

    This is how we watch TV in the 21st century: We fire up our laptops, our Roku boxes or our mobile devices. We open Hulu. We search for Parks and Recreation. Done.

    But Hulu’s owners — Disney, News Corp. and Comcast, which respectively own ABC, Fox and NBC — are about to ruin this experience. If they have their way, you’ll need a cable subscription to watch any TV show on the Internet.

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  • Ben Franklin Is Rolling in His Grave
    Josh Levy,
    April 27, 2012

    Yesterday the House rushed through a vote on CISPA — the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act.

    CISPA supporters in the House were so rattled by mounting opposition to their creepy bill — more than 1 million people told them to ditch it — that they passed the legislation before our outcry could spread.

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  • ALEC Wants You To Pay 750 Percent More For High-Speed Internet
    Zaid Jilani,
    April 20, 2012

    The American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) is the most powerful corporate front group you’ve never heard of. Drawing the vast majority of its financing from big corporations, the group allows these firms to help write bills that it then secretly passes off to state legislators to get turned into laws.

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  • Big Brother Is Not Your 'Friend'
    Tim Karr,
    April 16, 2012

    The U.S. government has increasingly shown an intense desire to “friend” you, to “follow” you, to get to know your every online move.

    Now members of the House of Representatives are channeling that desire into legislation that clears a path for authorities to work with companies like AT&T, Facebook and Google to snoop on Internet-using Americans.

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  • Stop the Online Spying Bill
    Josh Levy,
    April 12, 2012

    Want to give the federal government and big companies new powers to spy on you?

    You’re in luck: There's a bill for that. 

    It's called CISPA — the "Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act" — and it's a frightening piece of legislation. It could allow for a new online spying regime, letting Big Brother read, watch and listen to everything we do on the Internet.

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