Ted Stevens thinks we’re stupid. Trying to put this Net Neutrality debate to rest in the Senate, Stevens (R-AK) distributed the results of a “bipartisan” poll indicating that the vast majority of Americans would rather watch more TV than have a neutral Internet.
Net Neutrality Wins More Senators
The Net Neutrality movement is gaining support among U.S. senators. At the close of the August recess, the SaveTheInternet.com coalition added four previously uncommitted legislators to the cause.
MSFT: Gov’t Not Doing Enough For Net Neutrality
Microsoft Corp. said yesterday that “more could be done” by the United States legislature to ensure Network Neutrality principles. The response comes after the software giant petitioned federal regulators for permission to ignore shareholder demands to explain its position on the issue.
WWJD About Net Neutrality?
A fascinating aspect of the Net Neutrality debate is the lack of traditional polarization. It’s not a tug-of-war between the politically opposed, but a soundproofed room behind marble walls. The majority party can’t hear their base, and the Christian Coalition is hoping to pray their way in.
Wyden Confronts Senate On Net Neutrality
The Net Neutrality debate hit the floor of the United States Senate today as Senator Ron Wyden (D-OR) made an impassioned plea for Net Neutrality protection, promising to use all means necessary to block Sen. Ted Stevens’ telecommunications bill unless it expressly forbade Internet discrimination.
Net Neutrality, Meet Jon Stewart
What does it take to for Net Neutrality to get national television coverage? It takes an asinine explanation of the Internet by the chairman of the Senate Commerce Committee. Was this picked up on NBC, Fox, CNN or another major news network? Nope. Comedy Central.
Kerry Pledges Support For Net Neutrality
Former presidential candidate Senator John Kerry weighed in on the Network Neutrality debated by submitting a column to SaveTheInternet.com voicing his commitment to the principle’s protection.
Berners-Lee, Christians Hope For Neutrality
In today’s Net Neutrality news, World Wide Web inventor Tim Berners-Lee evangelizes about how the Internet should be treated. Meanwhile, the Christian Coalition has called for its prayer partners to focus their collective energy on the Senate Commerce Committee vote.
Canadian ISP A Net Neutrality Smoking Gun?
It’s been difficult for the layman to conceptualize what is meant by the neologism “Network Neutrality.” It floats over heads like the word “neologism.” Advocates typically have cited scenarios that could happen without a neutral Internet and, when they can, cite real life examples – like yesterday’s report of a Canadian ISP shakedown.
Senate Mulls ‘Net Neutrality Lite’
The cries of a million or so petitioners have made it a little farther into the aural canals of Alaska’s Ted Stevens, Chairman of the Senate Commerce Committee. Stevens has offered up a compromise on Network Neutrality in a provision one critic is calling “Net Neutrality Lite.”