FCC Commissioner Mignon Clyburn confessed “that a small part” of her was feeling “a little down” when she arrived at the Los Angeles Community Action Network in the city’s Skid Row neighborhood on Wednesday for a public forum on internet-related issues.
The 25 participants voiced strong support for the idea of a state fund that would support enterprising reporting on local news while aggregating multiple types of information useful to South Jersey residents.
Last Thursday we printed our chant sheets, bought a couple of dollar-store ponchos, had a sign-making party and picked up a bullhorn we’d borrowed. If FCC Chairman Ajit Pai wouldn’t come to the American people, the American people would come to Pai.
A dedicated group of five NJ Spark student journalists worked hand in hand with Free Press over the course of the spring semester on an ambitious project: lifting up the stories of New Jersey's working poor — and specifically New Brunswick's.
For years, big telecom companies like AT&T, Comcast and Verizon have had their armies of lobbyists swarming the FCC and Congress to spread lies about Net Neutrality.
This latest opinion blows holes in the arguments Net Neutrality opponents like FCC Chairman Ajit Pai have been making to justify gutting the open internet rules.
Last week FCC Chairman Ajit Pai unveiled a plan to hand over the internet to companies like Comcast.
Canada was also all abuzz with Net Neutrality news last week, and for the completely opposite reason.