-By Warner Todd Huston
If you are as worried as I am about the left’s effort to force ever larger amounts of big government onto our lives, then you should be looking into the issue of Net Neutrality. To that end a few times a week I’ll be posting some links and info about Net Neutrality to help you all get your feet wet on this important issue.
Here are just a few of the latest articles on Net Neutrality for your information:
The FCC Again Resumes its Unauthorized Internet Agenda
The Washington Examiner, By Seton Motley
The estimable John Eggerton of Broadcasting & Cable reports: The (Federal Communications Commission-FCC) is issuing a public notice to “improve the FCC’s understanding of business broadband needs,” calling it the “next step” advancing the FCC’s small business broadband agenda.
Only one problem with this FCC assertion. They’re not supposed to have a small business broadband agenda. Or a broadband agenda. Or any sort of Internet agenda at all.
Tweet of the Day: The Real Battle for Mobile
Reuters, by Brian X. Chen
Tensions seem to rise between Apple and Google every time they launch a phone or acquire a new media company, but the real battle is happening in a wonkier arena: telecom.
South Korean ambassador touts net-neutrality policies
The Hill, by Sara Jerome
Han Duk-soo, the ambassador from South Korea, said in a speech on Tuesday that net-neutrality protections constitute a critical policy for the wireless and wireline broadband landscape.
What’s all the fuss about net neutrality?
Fierce Content Management, by Ron Miller
Who owns the Internet? No one. Who controls the Internet? No one (except in certain countries that censor content, and that’s not ownership). So what’s all of the ruckus about?
‘Net neutrality’ is a new wrinkle in Web content competition
The Olympian, by Staff
In the analog world of my youth, inventive marketers sought to increase the visibility of their enterprises by naming them something like “AAA widgets,” so that theirs would be the first widget company a user would encounter in the phone book.
TITLE II, The FCC’s ‘Third Way’ Internet Land Grab is Hardly a ‘Moderate’ Solution
Big Government, by Seton Motley
Former Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Commissioner Glen Robinson wrote yesterday
Former FCC Commissioner and MIT Staff Columnist Speak Out Against Net Neutrality
Americans for Tax Reform, by Jenn Cobb
If you were as excited as I to hear of the FCC postponing net neutrality decisions, heed Glen O. Robinson’s caution for us to rein ourselves in. Robinson, a professor of Law Emeritus at UVA and Commissioner of the FCC from 1974-1976, deciphers their recent decisions in his article The Middle Way to Internet Freedom
Here are a few anti-Net Neutrality organizations and Web Resources that are worth looking in on occasionally:
- StopNetRegulation.org
- The Technology Liberation Front
- The Progress and Freedom Foundation
–Multimedia pages with some great videos and podcasts - MediaFreedom.org
- Tech at Night, Neil Stevens of RedState
- Tech Daily Dose, National Journal
- Tech Meme
- The Hill’s Hillicon Valley Blog
- Politico’s Morning Tech Blog
- Scott Cleland’s Precursor Bog
Here are some industry websites that follow Internet regulations:
- Verizon’s Policy Blog
- Broadcasting and Cable’s Tech Page
- TVB
- AT&T’s Public Policy Page
- Google’s Public Policy Page
We hope that you will post our articles and press releases. We also hope that our emailings will interest you enough to join the fight and write a few blog posts about Net Neutrality.
At stake is no less our freedom to blog not to mention the innovation of a free market.
Feel free to drop me a line at igcolonel@hotmail.com and do let me know if you are interested in helping to get the free market, conservative narrative on Net Neutrality out to your readers. This issue is vitally important for the freedom and success of our Internet.
This effort is in association with the United States Internet Industry Association (USIIA).
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“The only end of writing is to enable the reader better to enjoy life, or better to endure it.”
–Samuel Johnson
Warner Todd Huston is a Chicago based freelance writer. He has been writing opinion editorials and social criticism since early 2001 and before that he wrote articles on U.S. history for several small American magazines. His political columns are featured on many websites such as Andrew Breitbart’s BigGovernment.com, BigHollywood.com, and BigJournalism.com, as well as RightWingNews.com, CanadaFreePress.com, StoptheACLU.com, AmericanDaily.com, among many, many others. Mr. Huston is also endlessly amused that one of his articles formed the basis of an article in Germany’s Der Spiegel Magazine in 2008.
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