I’m reposting this part of Sean-Paul’s entry tonight to highlight the Net Neutrality issue:
We hope to have some net neutrality news tomorrow. In the meantime, here are some links to the folks who are lining up against it: Hands Off The Internet. Does that include corporate hands too? Based on the member organizations, no would be the operative answer. More net neutrality stuff here and here. I wanted this to be bi-partisan but it ain’t looking good.
See the new Agonist Net Neutrality Section (combines news, diary, and forum posts).
attempt to be a decoy site away from the real “Hands Off My Internet” Campaign of Common Cause.
They appear to have taken the phrase from the Common Cause campaign:
Hands Off My Internet which is for net neutrality,
and twisted it into:
Hands Off the Internet meaning no government enforcement of net neutrality.
I hate to say it, but that’s a typical deception manoeuvre worthy of the likes of Rove.
Their member organizations are mainly all the media giant telcoms trying to ruin net neutrality for their own greed. How they also got two black business groups to sign on must be an interesting story.
Political Conservatives Recruited in Net Neutrality Fight
http://www.ipdemocracy.com/archives/001386print.html
Coalition Formed To Fight ‘Network Neutrality’ Rules
National Journal – AT&T and a group of free-market conservative organizations have joined a prominent Democrat — former Clinton White House Press Secretary Michael McCurry — to seek to eliminate all “network neutrality” provisions from pending House telecommunications legislation.
At least four conservative nonprofits are part of a newly formed coalition called “Hands Off the Internet,” which is urging Congress to “say no to government regulation of the Internet.” In addition to AT&T, the telecom equipment manufacturer Alcatel and Cingular Wireless also are listed as member organizations.
The House Energy and Commerce Telecommunications and the Internet Subcommittee Wednesday approved a bill that would grant the FCC the authority to adjudicate — but not to regulate — disputes about network neutrality.
Advocates of neutrality in the technology sector — primarily Internet content companies — want to prevent the regional Bell operating companies and the cable industry from discriminating in terms of the use of their high-speed lines. Energy and Commerce Democrats sought tougher neutrality rules Wednesday, but were unsuccessful.
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