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Censorship: Made in the USA

March has been a stormy month across the Arab world as the hope for new democracy faces the harsh reality of despots armed with guns, tanks and the tools of censorship.In Libya, the Gaddafi regime...

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Tea Party, Corporate Front Groups Urge Democrats to Cave on Net Neutrality

Net Neutrality, the First Amendment of the Internet, has come under withering attack from the Astroturf lobby – corporate front groups that are determined to hand control of the Internet to companies...

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FCC Commissioner's Comcast Dash Triggers Wave of Disgust

It's fair to say that media and the public have responded with disgust to news that FCC Commissioner Meredith Atwell Baker had cut short her public duties to lobby for Comcast, the company whose...

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The US Congress: Where It Pays to Deceive

Why are more than 70 House Democrats helping AT&T lie to you?They just signed on to an industry letter that was so riddled with misinformation about AT&T’s proposed merger with T-Mobile it’s...

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Google vs. Facebook: Should Human Rights Factor in Your Choice of Social...

Question: What would billionaire Mark Zuckerberg lose by refusing Chinese demands that he censor Facebook? What would he and his company gain from being more principled?This came up after reading...

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The Difference between 'Town Halls' and Town Halls

Twitter's #AskObama question selection process was "like panning for gold in the wrong stream," tweetedEconomist political writer Will Wilkinson.Wilkinson should know. He was one of the "curators"...

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The Trouble with Rupert

There are many reasons that the scandal that's engulfing Rupert Murdoch has riveted public attention over the last seven days. It's a story that features all of the classic elements: twists of fate,...

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Murdoch Scandal Jumps the Pond

The media scandal that's snared Rupert Murdoch and other News Corporation executives in Great Britain has crossed the Atlantic, and could cause more homegrown trouble for the U.S.-based company.In the...

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Washington Slowly Wakes Up from AT&T's Bad Dream

Congress may be finally waking up to the obvious: that the massive merger of AT&T with T-Mobile just doesn't make sense.No amount of contributions from AT&T, or visits from AT&T lobbyists,...

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Class War?

Two recent news items of note. First, this extraordinary piece by News Hour’s Paul Solman, which illustrates the disconnect between what people think about America’s income distribution and the...

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High Noon for Internet Freedom

As democracy movements worldwide struggle to speak out via the Internet, many here in the U.S. may have overlooked an effort in Congress to undermine this basic freedom.It takes the form of an arcane...

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Saving the democratic Internet

Opponents of the open Internet like to portray its guiding rule, Net Neutrality, as "a government takeover of the Internet."  They argue that from the day of its inception the Internet has existed free...

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