What's made the Internet so great for women (besides offering us fun and often hilarious ways of pointing out gender inequity) is how it’s allowed us all to sidestep the gatekeepers.
On Tuesday, activists, celebrities, policymakers, journalists, businesses and organizations lit up the Internet to protest the NSA’s mass surveillance programs. By day’s end, 86,206 people had called their members of Congress and 178,227 people had sent emails to their elected officials.
Whether you’re surfing the Web today for news or the latest Bieberdashian dirt, chances are you’re going to encounter sites displaying the banner for the Day We Fight Back — a global protest against mass surveillance.
Nonprofit online journalism site the Colorado Independent wants to cover the Statehouse in Denver — but a small committee of legacy media journalists and legislative leaders won’t let it. The committee’s behavior has important First Amendment implications and raises concerns for new journalism startups nationwide.
As in 2012, to watch the Olympics, you have to be either a cable or satellite-TV customer. NBC is again refusing to give Internet customers the option to purchase stand-alone Web access.
Last week people lined up at a microphone in a community meeting room in Northampton, Mass., to express their support for Northampton Community Television. Massachusetts has more than 100 community media centers — more than any other state.
A group of us met recently with Sen. Maria Cantwell’s office, where we asked the senator to co-sponsor the USA Freedom Act, which would curtail the NSA’s illegal activities.
This week David Raphael stumbled on the reality of an Internet without Net Neutrality.
Raphael today alleged that Verizon is deliberately slowing down traffic coming from his company’s servers.
AT&T just filed a patent that would help it define which Internet traffic is “permissible” and “non-permissible” on its network. This is exactly the scenario that supporters of Net Neutrality (read: everyone but the Internet service providers and their friends in Congress) have feared.
