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...
View ArticleTea 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...
View ArticleFCC 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...
View ArticleThe 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...
View ArticleGoogle 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...
View ArticleThe 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"...
View ArticleThe 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,...
View ArticleMurdoch 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...
View ArticleWashington 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,...
View ArticleClass 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...
View ArticleHigh 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...
View ArticleSaving 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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