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March 28, 2008
WP: Net Neutrality's Quiet Crusader-- Ben Scott
 Over at the Washington Post, Cecilia Kang profiles our colleague Ben Scott of Free Press in the story Net Neutrality's Quiet Crusader:
A soft-spoken 30-year-old PhD candidate, Ben Scott has become an operator in multibillion-dollar battles involving corporate titans, regulators and consumers debating policies over who controls the media and the Internet. "There have been policy moments in the past when the market has been shaped by decisions made in Washington -- radio in the 1930s, television in the 1950s and cable in the 1980s. That moment is now for the Internet," said Scott, who runs a nine-member office. Check it out and check out the work Free Press is doing on internet freedom (net neutrality) and other media reform issues. The story mentions the recent FCC hearing in Cambridge, where cable giant and enemy of Internet freedom Comcast hired seatwarmers so there would be no room for the concerned public to sit. As you can see on this youtube video, some of the seatwarmers fell asleep.
Posted by Ed Mierzwinski at March 28, 2008 08:10 AM
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