Posts from November 2009

Jean Cook
November 25, 2009

There’s been no shortage of talk lately about Net Neutrality, with everyone from Jon Stewart to FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski discussing the future of the Web as we know it.

November 25, 2009

If we as a nation don't preserve Network Neutrality at home, we undermine our diplomacy goals and pro-democracy initiatives abroad. So say senior officials at the State Department and the White House, who spoke Thursday at an academic conference organized by the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.

November 24, 2009

When I attended the Rainbow PUSH Coalition’s Annual Symposium “First Class Digital Citizenship: A Civil and Human Right,” I was pleased to hear Rev.

November 23, 2009

New York City is home to more than 3.5 million immigrants, about 1.8 million of whom either have limited or no knowledge of English and whose primary source of information is ethnic and community media in their own languages. This is one of the reasons for the mushrooming growth of this media sector in this part of the country.

November 23, 2009

The web as you know it is GOING TO END.

The ease with which to reach your favorite sites is GOING TO END.

The speed with which to reach those sites is GOING TO END.

The ease with which you share videos with friends is GOING TO END.

The freedom to access the site of any organization from Planned Parenthood to The Christian Coalition is GOING TO END.

November 20, 2009

New York City could help lead the way for an open Internet by passing a resolution urging the federal government to protect Net Neutrality.

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