Staff / TruthdigJun 29, 2006
The Senate Commerce Committee fell a single vote short of passing an amendment to safeguard the free and open Internet as momentum builds toward a full Senate vote on Net neutrality. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
Staff / TruthdigJun 28, 2006
The Senate is due to vote Wednesday on the Net Neutrality bill.
Click here and CALL. YOUR. SENATOR.
Otherwise, when AT&T is deciding which content streams fastest to your computer, you'll have no one to blame but yourself. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
Staff / TruthdigJun 10, 2006
The Nation's John Nichols explains how perilously close the U.S. government is to making a toll road out of the Internet--on which only the rich websites will be able to pay to have their content load move fastest. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
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Staff / TruthdigMay 26, 2006
The panel recommended a version of the Net neutrality bill that would bar telecom companies from charging premium fees for Web companies that sell video and other content.
This is far from a full victory, but it's a step in that direction. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
Staff / TruthdigMay 16, 2006
Companies like AT&T and BellSouth are backing an organization claiming to be saving the Internet by keeping it free of "burdensome and unnecessary regulation." But that's nonsense. They're the ones that want to put toll lanes on the Internet. (These are the same companies that reportedly handed over America's phone records to the NSA.)
Buzzflash sorts it out. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
Staff / TruthdigMay 2, 2006
Rep. Ed Markey just introduced a net neutrality bill, which would prevent the creation of a two-tier Internet, with faster access for those Web companies that can pay for it. Check out the N.Y. Times' defense of neutrality, and a Washington Post Op-Ed argument against it. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
Staff / TruthdigApr 12, 2006
Remember John Edwards' "Two Americas"? Well, a House subcommittee just moved us closer to a country of "Two Internets," in which only the wealthy will enjoy the fastest connection speeds. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
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