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Keeping the Web Free Will Keep Us Freenew

If passed, the Internet Freedom Preservation Act of 2008 (HR 5353), would take steps toward protecting net neutrality -- the principle that web content should be equally available, independent of any fee system and regardless of its political content.
Philadelphia City Paper  |  Mary Wilson  |  04-01-2008  |  Tech

Is Internet Populism Destined for Corporate Ruin?new

The threat is real -- if "net neutrality" is lost, we'll be getting most of our online content from the same media giants that dominate broadcast, cable, and print.
Boston Phoenix  |  Dan Kennedy  |  10-10-2007  |  Media

Speed Trapnew

Big Telecom wants to control the flow of the Internet.
Boulder Weekly  |  Pamela White  |  01-29-2007  |  Media

Tubing on the Alaskan’s Pipelinenew

How is a feckless U.S. senator running interference for Big Media?
LEO Weekly  |  Stephen George  |  07-31-2006  |  Media

Verizon's Tubesnew

Sen. Ted Stevens is deciding the future of Internet regulation -- this is a guy who thinks that he received "an Internet" yesterday, and that it was made of "tubes."
San Francisco Bay Guardian  |  Annalee Newitz  |  07-12-2006  |  Media

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