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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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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.
created by delzakiya | 1 year ago | updated 1 year ago 66 views | 0 recommendations | 0 comments
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...
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....
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...
created by Maireid Sullivan | 2 years ago | updated 2 years ago 100 views | 12 recommendations | 3 comments
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...
created by Truemorist | 2 years ago | updated 2 years ago 192 views | 0 recommendations | 0 comments
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 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...
opinion by peder.sande | 2 years ago | updated 2 years ago 3750 views | 15 recommendations | 29 comments
"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...
"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...
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...