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Utility Regulators Propose Key Tweaks In FCC Net Neutrality Proposal - 2010-02-18 17:29... - 0 views

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Net Neutrality Broadcasting and Cable media public utilities regulators FCC

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  • kkholland on 20 Feb 10
     
    Ultility regulators weigh in on FCC proposed regulation, stressing non-discrimination on peer-to-peer and political content by broadband providers.
Ryan Fuller

Hollywood writers' age-discrimination case settled - latimes.com - 0 views

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2010 Writers Guild of America age discrimination

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  • Ryan Fuller on 23 Jan 10
     
    A decade-old legal battle comes to an end as 17 major networks and production studios, along with seven talent agencies, agree to pay $70 million to thousands of writers.
kkholland

Could Court's Campaign Finance Ruling Affect Net Neutrality? - PCWorld - 0 views

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Net Neutrality citizens united free speech Internet Service Provider ISP

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  • Under the FCC's proposed net neutrality rules, broadband providers would be prohibited from discriminating against any legal Web content and applications. Some net neutrality opponents have argued that the FCC, by forcing them to carry other content, would violate their free-speech rights, and the Citizens United ruling makes that a stronger argument.
  • An FCC spokeswoman declined to comment on the Citizens United case, but Wendy is not alone in making this free-speech argument against net neutrality. Even before the Citizens United ruling, some conservative think tanks, the National Cable and Telecommunications Association and constitutional law professor Laurence Tribe have made similar
  • Free Press' Wright said those arguments confuse the role that ISPs have as Web site publishers with their role as network operators. She acknowledged that broadband providers have limited functions, such as publishing their own Web sites or blogs, that enjoy free-speech rights.
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  • But the net neutrality rules as proposed would create no limits on the ability of ISPs to publish their own Web sites, she said. The arguments that the ISPs' traffic-carrying role is speech is "so fundamentally at odds with the facts in the law," Wright said.
  • kkholland on 01 Feb 10
     
    Will the Citizens United ruling impact net neutrality? This article explores the arguments on both sides, as well as the role of an ISP.
kkholland

Google Fiber and the FCC National Broadband Plan - O'Reilly Radar - 0 views

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    This blog post situates the ambitious Google Fiber project against recently announced FCC plans to spur faster broadband development. The article also discusses issues of media regulation, specifically pricing and competition.
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