Posts tagged Congress

A Man. A Plan. A Problem. The Internet.
Tim Karr
March 17, 2010

Judging from the back-slapping and high fives over at the FCC, you’d think that America’s Internet was sailing smoothly into the future. Think again.

The Top 10 Internet Moments of 2009
Tim Karr
December 23, 2009

More than a decade ago, President Clinton pledged that every person in America would soon be able to go online "to order up every movie ever produced or every symphony ever created in a minute's time."

A New Tool for Putting Net Neutrality on the Map
Megan Tady
December 14, 2009

The question isn’t who’s been naughty and who’s been nice this holiday season. It’s who’s supporting Net Neutrality, and who isn’t?

Time for Net Neutrality
Rep. Ed Markey
October 30, 2009

Last week, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) took a historic step towards developing new rules to safeguard the free and open nature of the Internet, fulfilling a key campaign promise of President Obama's and kicking off a process that has been years in the making.

John McCain's 'Series of Tubes'
Tim Karr
October 25, 2009

The "Maverick" just played his hand on Net Neutrality, and the cards reveal a man who's outsider image doesn't quite add up.

NYT: Time to Make Net Neutrality the Law
Tim Karr
August 29, 2009

The New York Times gets Net Neutrality right again, and again, and again. In their fourth editorial in support of Net Neutrality the newspaper’s editors write:

Internet Freedom in the House
Tim Karr
July 31, 2009

Once and for all, a bill to make Net Neutrality the law made its way to Congress on Friday afternoon when Reps. Edward Markey (D-Mass.) and Anna Eshoo (D-Calif.) introduced the Internet Freedom Preservation Act of 2009 (H.R. 3458).