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Net Neutrality: FCC Supports Comcast & Media Consolidation

19 April, 2008 (12:19) | bloggers, blogging, BlogHer, democracy, journalism, media, news, opinion | By: Catherine Morgan

Virginia Debolt has a post for BlogHer on Net Neutrality

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) met this week at Stanford University to talk about network management or net neutrality. The specific issue was Comcast’s well publicized habit of deciding what information makes it through their broadband pipes and what does not.

Stanford professor Lawrence Lessig was one of the people scheduled to speak at the hearings. Before the hearings began, he was interviewed by Amy Goodman of Democracy Now. Lessig is the founder and co-director of Stanford Law School’s Center for Internet and Society and chair of the Creative Commons project. Goodman asked him to define Net Neutrality.

Read Virginia’s Full Post at BlogHer


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If you haven’t yet signed up at Save the Internet http://www.savetheinternet.com/ so that you can get updates, sign petitions, and take action on net neutrality, do it now. Let your representatives and the FCC know that you want a neutral network connection to the Internet.

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