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April 17, 2008

FCC hearing on net neutrality (Internet freedom) right now

The FCC (panelists) is holding a hearing today on network management practices and Internet neutrality issues. Two key panelists, Larry Lessig of Stanford Law School and Ben Scott of Free Press, have an op-edit in today's San Francisco Chronicle, Public Must Fight to Maintain Net Neutrality, explaining the issues. Professor Lessig, of course, is author of Code, the seminal book explaining how the Internet became such a success: because its main rule from the beginning was net neutrality. Net neutrality means no phone or cable company gatekeepers controlling civic ideas or commercial ideas or picking winners (them) and losers (everyone else).

Posted by Ed Mierzwinski at April 17, 2008 04:21 PM


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