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The Internet has become a defining infrastructure of our economy and society; Internet Service Providers like AT&T forge rules that shape, enable and limit Internet use.
Federal Communication Commission (FCC) Chairman Genachowski recently noted that a free and open Internet is an “unprecedented platform for speech, democratic engagement, and a culture that prizes creative new ways [...]
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The Internet is becoming the defining infrastructure of our economy and society in the 21st century. Its potential to open markets for commerce, venues for cultural expression and modalities of civic engagement is without historic parallel.
Internet Service Providers (ISPs) are gatekeepers to this infrastructure: providing access, managing traffic, insuring communication, and forging rules that shape, [...]
Professor Jeffery Rosen recently wrote in the New York Times, “As more and more speech migrates online, to blogs and social-networking sites and the like, the ultimate power to decide who has an opportunity to be heard, and what we may say, lies increasingly with Internet service providers, search engines and other Internet companies…”
Members of [...]
The Seattle Times published an Op-Ed by Open MIC and Trillium Asset Management Corporation: “FCC shouldn’t tolerate abuses by Internet’s corporate gatekeepers.”
The Op-Ed challenges Comcast, AT&T and a host of other Internet Service Providers for their secretive, invasive and deceptive practices that compromise consumers’ privacy and freedom of expression.
To read the article, click here http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/opinion/2008114549_openoped15.html
On December 20, 2007, The Seattle Times published an op-ed by Trillium Asset Management Corporation Vice President Farnum Brown and Michael Connor, the executive director of Open Mic, a nonprofit working to promote a vibrant, diverse media ecosystem through market-based solutions. Brown and Connor demanded:
COMCAST, Verizon, and AT&T need to come clean.
Those three – and other [...]
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