It’s So Hurtful
I’m taking a lunch break at Stop and Shop, using their network and checking out my stats and my friend’s blogs. Or trying to. Nomi’s blog, ‘I Dreamed I Saw Grace P. Today’ is forbidden on this network. Likewise ‘Echidne of the Snakes’. Has Nomi spent too much time hanging out with ‘Jesus’ General’? The [...]
Help Chafee Take a Position on Net Neutrality
The issue of net neutrality has been an issue that Lincoln Chafee, Sheldon Whitehouse, and Steve Laffey have all avoided taking a position on. The House of Representatives has already voted to give more power to corporations on the issue of internet communication. Now there is an effort from corporate lobbyists to force a vote [...]
Four Debates Between Chafee and Laffey
Projo reports: PROVIDENCE — Republican Sen. Lincoln D. Chafee The debates will begin on Thursday, Aug. 10, on the Arlene Violet Show, from 5 p.m. to 6 p.m. on WHJJ (920-AM). On Thursday, Aug. 17, Chafee and Laffey will face off on the Dan Yorke Show on WPRO (630-AM) from 5 to 6 p.m. Two [...]
Kerry Blogs on Net Neutrality
From Sen. John Kerry, guest-blogging for Savetheinternet.com: On Wednesday in the Senate Commerce Committee I warned that those of us who believe in net neutrality will block legislation that doesn’t get the job done. It looks like that’s the fight we’re going to have. The Commerce Committee voted on net neutrality and it failed on [...]
Net Neutrality Not Supported in the House
Good news for the telecom/cable internet special interests, bad news for regular people like you and me: last night as Tom DeLay gave his swan song in the Senate, the House passed the COPE Act without any net neutrality provisions, and voted down the Markey Amendment (net neutrality provisions) by a count of 269 to [...]
Victory for Net Neutrality Movement
Good News! The broad, nonpartisan movement for Internet freedom notched a major victory today, when a bipartisan majority of the House Judiciary Committee passed the “Internet Freedom and Nondiscrimination Act of 2006″ — a bill that offers meaningful protections for Network Neutrality, “the First Amendment of the Internet.� 20 members of the Commitee (6 Republicans [...]
Bandwidth 4 Us, Not 4 You
Along with Handsofftheinternet.com, there is another astroturf front group for the large Telcos that has just started up: TV4US. According to Savetheinternet.com, this organization is doing a telemarketing campaign in which they are calling consumers and trying to convince us that companies like Google and Microsoft are using up all the bandwidth and driving up [...]
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