Posts from January 2009

More Ghosts in the Machine
Tim Karr
January 29, 2009

Cox Communications, the nation’s third-largest cable company, on Tuesday unveiled a plan to monitor and slow Internet content it deems unimportant.

With this news, Cox joins the ranks of other Internet providers willing to tempt legal fate by getting between customers and their access to the free-flowing Web.

Change or Cha-Ching?
Tim Karr
January 22, 2009

Change has come to America. Well, sort of. On “K” Street - home to Washington’s most powerful corporate lobbyists - it’s business as usual.

Net Neutrality Advocate to Lead FCC
Tim Karr
January 13, 2009

President-elect Barack Obama is due to tap Net Neutrality supporter Julius Genachowski to become chair of the Federal Communications Commission.

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