Posts from May 2010

Rep. Doyle Shows Washington How To Stand Up To Corporate Front Groups
Harold Feld
May 27, 2010

The faux populist group Americans For Prosperity has been running ads against network neutrality in Mike Doyle’s (D-PA) district in Pittsburgh. Doyle’s response? A

Will Dirty Politics Kill the Internet?
Tim Karr
May 26, 2010

Congress just sold you out to Comcast, Verizon and AT&T.

Big phone and cable companies are so determined to dismantle consumer protections on the open Internet that they've spent millions to flip Congress against you. Earlier this week, many in Congress delivered.

Top ISPs Tell Investors FCC Oversight Won’t Harm Broadband Investment
Moira Vahey
May 26, 2010

It appears that many of the nation’s leading Internet service providers aren’t actually worried about the Federal Communications Commission’s “Third Way” approach to broadband oversight and its impact on broadband build-out and investment – despite what they’re telling lawmakers in Washington.

Washington Post’s Rx for Broadband: Slow, Expensive and Still Unavailable
Megan Tady
May 24, 2010

If the editorial writers at the Washington Post had their way, the United States would forever be stuck with slow, expensive broadband that leaves entire parts of the country unconnected.

The Truth about Title II
Megan Tady
May 19, 2010

Phone and cable lobbyists are making the rounds on Capitol Hill, urging elected officials to sign on to letters disparaging the Federal Communications Commission’s plans to protect the Internet and bridge the digital divide.

Internet Showdown: Conservatives v. Justice Scalia
Aparna Sridhar
May 14, 2010

Earlier this week, corporate front group Americans for Prosperity -- the same group that compared health care reform to the Holocaust -- announced a $1.4 million advertising blitz to stop the FCC's "government takeover of the Internet."

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