The savetheinternet.com coalition is more than a million everyday people who have banded together with thousands of non-profit organizations, businesses and bloggers to protect Internet freedom.
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Free the IphoneCreated on February 7, 2008 at 10:33am
Save the InternetCreated on February 7, 2008 at 9:47am
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- FCC Hearing on the Future of t...
Carnegie Mellon University
Monday, July 21 at 4:00pm
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- Net Neutrality & Social Justice for NYC’s Immigrant Communities 11:22am Nov 23
- Net Neutrality: Put Your Foot Down 7:21am Nov 23|5 Comments
- New Yorkers Want Net Neutrality 10:36am Nov 20
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US invented the Internet, and now lags in access to it: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story
Source: www.npr.org
Despite being the country that invented the Internet, America lags far behind nations like Japan and South Korea in broadband speed and access. Guy Raz checks in with Thomas Bleha, author of the book Overtaken on the Information Superhighway, to find out why.
The web as you know it is GOING TO END. • The ease with which to reach your favorite sites is GOING TO END. • The speed with which to reach those sites is GOING TO END. • The ease with which you share videos with friends is GOING TO END.
New York City is home to more than 3.5 million immigrants, about 1.8 million of whom either have limited or no knowledge of English and whose primary source of information is ethnic and community media in their own languages...
Mark Burwinkel Protect net neutrality, expand broadband. Protect the peoples internet.
Save the Internet Obama's deputy tech officer says Net Neutrality underlies free speech online: http://bit.ly/8H1vx1
Post Tech - Obama's deputy technology officer McLaughlin: Free speech is net-neutrality foreign poli
Source: bit.ly
When President Obama told university students in Shanghai last week that he’s a “big supporter of non-censorship,” it took 27 minutes for one major Chinese portal to delete that part of his speech. After two-and-a-half hours, almost all portals in...
Save the Internet Tim Karr's testimony today before the New York City Council in support of their pro-Net Neutrality resolution (712-A): http://twurl.nl/8qrgw3
Source: twurl.nl
New York City could help lead the way for an open Internet by passing a resolution urging the federal government to protect Net Neutrality.
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NYC still hearts the net: http://gigaom.com/2009/11/20/nyc-still-h
Source: gigaom.com
The New York City Council is voting on a resolution this morning supporting the idea that Internet service providers cannot ...
Save the Internet FCC Chair Genachowski is answering your questions on Digg. Ask him if he will propose strong rules to protect Net Neutrality! http://bit.ly/24hJCr
Source: bit.ly
Digg interviews Julius Genachowski based on questions voted on by people like you.
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Free Press' Tim Karr is testifying today at the
NYC Council Net Neutrality Hearing. Webcast live at 10am sharp:
http://bit.ly/4GbYAs
Source: bit.ly
In Feb. 2007 members of the NYC Council Committee on Technology in Government Committee introduced Resolution 712, calling on the federal government to pass net neutrality legislation, an unlikely prospect at the time. ...
Mark Thompson This can affect us globly I can hear this from Australia and I am showing my support
A recent editorial, "Web doesn't need 'neutrality','" reads like talking points from the telecommunications industries' lobbyists. The phone and cable companies that provide Internet connections are pulling out all the stops against Net neutrality...
For many of us, the diversity and abundance of information on the Internet has become part of our daily lives. We assume that we will always be able to view the websites of our choosing and even upload our own photos and videos onto the Internet.
Tim
Don't miss other moves that governments are making to restrict internet freedom. ACTA is a treaty that our government is currently negotiating that would make would establish a 3 strikes rule, enforced by ISPs who would have to respond to requests from Rights Holders (think Disney here) without due process. I know th...at this organization has focused on NetNeutrality, but it seems both rational and wise to talk about this here as neutrality will do nothing for you if your rights to use internet are taken away.Read More
Astroturf. You may have heard the word or even seen the fake grassroots in action. Astroturf groups are front operations that take corporate money to promote an industry's policy agenda, covering their tracks behind phony grassroots Web façades.
