• Tell the FCC What You Want from a National Internet Plan

    Megan Tady
    June 3, 2009

    The Federal Communications Commission is busy crafting America's first national broadband plan, and they're asking for your input. Now's your chance to tell the FCC to support an open, fast, affordable and people-powered Internet without corporate gatekeepers.

  • Where Are the Public Interest Protections in Massachusetts’ Internet Plan?

    Megan Tady
    June 2, 2009

    If Massachusetts is leading the nation in broadband expansion, we should be worried.

    Last year, Gov. Deval Patrick signed a bill to extend affordable high-speed Internet to thousands of Massachusetts residents. He has authorized $40 million in state bonds to develop public-private partnerships to connect the dozens of towns that still don’t have broadband access.

  • Industry Analyst: Internet Metering 'Is Going to Happen'

    Phillip Dampier
    June 2, 2009

    Craig Moffett, cable and telecom analyst at Sanford C. Bernstein & Company, is back rallying for consumption based billing, dismissing accusations it represents a stealth rate increase.

  • Obama: Firmly Committed to Net Neutrality

    Timothy Karr
    May 29, 2009

    President Obama has done it again – re-affirming his unyielding commitment to an open Internet. It happened this time during an announcement on Friday of a new initiative to beef up the nation's defenses against cyber-attacks.

  • Expanding the Internet with Community Media

    Joshua Breitbart
    May 27, 2009

    One of the best things about the broadband portion of the American Reinvestment and Recovery Act is that it recognizes the importance of community media for expanding the Internet. The concern now is that if you focus too much on the medium itself, you miss that what really brings people online is the sense of community.

  • Internet Heroes and Villains

    Timothy Karr
    May 20, 2009

    If the history of Internet policy were a movie, it would feature the public tied to the tracks before an onrushing train of corporate lobbyists.

  • Hating the Internet for Hurting Profits

    Phillip Dampier
    May 18, 2009

    A lot of big companies have gotten big headaches dealing with the implications of a wired world. Instead of embracing change and developing new business plans to win profits from online users, many see the net as the enemy or something that must be controlled.

  • Big Media Myopia

    Timothy Karr
    May 18, 2009

    It's hard to empathize with struggling newspapers when those running them continue to suffer from the short-sightedness that got their industry into a mess.

  • Big Media Myopia

    Timothy Karr
    May 18, 2009

    It’s hard to empathize with struggling newspapers when those running them continue to suffer from the short-sightedness that got their industry into a mess.

    The editors at the Washington Post put on a display of such backward thinking on Saturday, when they published an op-ed by two lawyers from the influential D.C. firm Baker Hostetler.

  • Michael Copps on Protecting the Media and Democracy

    Josh Levy
    May 14, 2009

    Acting FCC Chairman Michael Copps spoke this morning at Free Press’ Changing Media Summit, and he delivered a rousing reminder of how central the media are to sustaining a democracy, and how hard we need to continue to work to protect it.

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