HOMELAND'S ORWELLIAN BROADCAST PSYOP NOT READY FOR PRIME-TIME

GET POLITICAL W/ VIC LIVINGSTON   Don't take my word for it -- read what The New York Times had to say about today's buggy first-ever test of a new "Emergency Alert System" that gives "continuity of government" overlords the power to override all major...

HOMELAND SECURITY'S ORWELLIAN BROADCAST PSYOP CUT DOWN TO SIZE

BREAKING NEWS sourced from CommLawCenter, November 3, 2011 2:21 PM EDT :   FEMA, the Federal Emergency Management Agency division of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, has indicated that the audio of the Nov. 9 national Emergency Alert System test at 2...

FCC Reform and the Future of Telecommunications Policy

The institutional failings of the FCC have finally begun to attract attention. For years, the agency tolerated a level of mystery and secrecy over what proposals would be submitted for consideration, an extraordinary reliance on the ex parte process at the expense of ...

They have a hold on you

You can’t trust the communications jockeys I don’t care if it’s Verizon or Comcast or AT&T or Sprint or who cares else, the people that manipulate our limited and restricted access to communications...

Net Neutrality

I would never trust utility service providers to operate without attempting to tier services and to discriminate based on fee for service revenues. Especially, never trust Comcast and AT&T, two peas of a common...

FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski at NAB in Las Vegas

The FCC Chairman did a keynote at the NAB show in Las Vegas. The Chairman focused on the need to be a leader in broadband technology instead of a follower. 

Net Neutrality At Stake: FCC Sanctions On Comcast Overturned

Net Neutrality Threatened?Federal appeals court ruled that the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) was not right to accuse and sanction Comcast Corp. for slowing down traffic on its network to impede peer-to-peer file sharing services in 2008. Comcast was ordered to...

Internet Regulation

What part of the Internet requires regulating? That is a critical question and a place to start? Like the March of Dimes Charity, the FCC seems to be in search of a mission since their duty to regulate telephone communications and cable television is presumably complete....

Two Million Strong for Net Neutrality

More than 1.7 million people have already called for support of Net Neutrality. If we can reach 2 million people, we’ll send a resounding message that Washington can’t ignore.TAKE ACTION: SIGN PETITION TO...

FCC Chairman gets Punked on Facebook

FCC Chariman Julius Genachowski fell victim to one of the many, many, many worms making its way through Facebook. His friends found themselves getting spammed from his account, so it got blocked. That's pretty...

Of Tolls and Rivers Chains –The New Robber Barons

For a number of centuries, roughly 800 AD to 1800 AD, feudal lords with land along the Rhine River in Germany, collected tolls from passing cargo ships. In an effective effort to back this control, large iron chains were laid across the river and raised high enough to block...

Mark Lloyd A Civil Rights Leader Enrages Conservatives

Mark Lloyd a civil rights leader and FCC Diversity 'Czar' enrages conservatives with media reform. Right wing radio talk show host Rush Limbaugh is up in arms with Mark Lloyd's speech at a civil rights leadership...

Internet Freedom Bill Introduced in the House

"New legislation would protect Net Neutrality once and for all !Date: July 31, 2009 WASHINGTON -- Today, Reps. Edward Markey (D-Mass.) and Anna Eshoo (D-Calif.) introduced the Internet Freedom Preservation Act of...

Leibowitz chats up broadband, net neutrality, privacy...

"When it comes to consumer issues like broadband and network neutrality, the FTC in recent years has spent most of its time nodding dumbly at carriers, allowing them to "self-regulate." The idea that corporations can effectively monitor themselves for bad behavior has been...

Call to Action - Send Comments to the FCC for Community TV

Local media is in crisis. Towns and cities across America are losing their commercial news oulets, while pink slips are being handed to the reporters who once covered our communities. We cannot afford to lose any...

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