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AT&T's Man in the White House

When President Obama said he was going to "bring change to Washington," no one expected William Daley to be his choice to get the job done.Obama's incoming chief of staff is about as corporate friendly...

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One U.S. Corporation's Role in Egypt's Brutal Crackdown

The open Internet's role in popular uprising is now undisputed. Look no further than Egypt, where the Mubarak regime shut down Internet and cell phone communications -- a troubling predictor of the...

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Does Secretary Clinton Have a Double Standard on Internet Freedom?

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Tuesday highlighted new U.S. Internet freedom policy that is designed to help democracy movements gain access to open networks and speak out against authoritarian...

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Beyonce, Mariah and Usher Must Make Good for Libya

Beyonce, Mariah Carey and Usher pocketed millions in blood money from the Qaddafi family to perform at lavishly corrupt private parties on the Caribbean island of St. Barts.According to a recent report...

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Speaker Boehner's Space Odyssey

On Monday, House Speaker John Boehner (R - AT&T) chose the occasion of his first address outside Washington to take aim at Net Neutrality.While the speaker may have traveled 650 miles to Nashville...

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House GOP Goes Nuts Over Net Neutrality

Late Wednesday, Republican members of a key House Commerce subcommittee decided to give phone and cable companies absolute, unrestricted power over the Internet.By a party-line vote of 15 to 8 they...

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Sen. Franken: 'We Can't Lose Net Neutrality'

On Monday, Minnesota Sen. Al Franken made the corporate takeover of the Internet – and the government's acquiescence to these corporations – frighteningly clear.Franken told a crowd of independent...

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AT&T Takes America Back to the Future

AT&T's plan to take over T-Mobile has set the stage for Washington's high-tech policy battle of 2011.But that's not all that's at stake. This proposed deal paints a dark scenario for the future of...

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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," tweeted Economist 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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