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Comcast Continues to Blow Smoke
Last Friday, Comcast’s Executive Vice President David Cohen sent a letter to FCC Chairman Kevin Martin filled, as usual, with lies and half-truths. Cohen’s letter was in response to Chairman Martin’s statement on the recent Comcast and BitTorrent, Inc. agreement to end the cable company’s blocking of BitTorrent’s file-sharing applications. [more]
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Your Internet: Open or Closed?
During a Friday briefing in the chambers of the House Commerce Committee Tim Wu, Ben Scott, Marvin Ammori, Jef Pearlman and Markham Erickson laid out the central struggle in our campaign to save a free-flowing Internet. [more]
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Internet Bill a Blow to the Gatekeepers
Reps. Ed Markey (D-Mass.) and Chip Pickering (R-Miss.) today launched the latest salvo in the struggle to keep the Internet free from gatekeepers with the introduction of the “Internet Freedom Preservation Act of 2008” (HR 5353). [more]
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MAY 19, 2008 - The editors at the New York Times believe that Congress needs to protect the openness of the Internet.
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APRIL 17, 2008 - The Federal Communications Commission held a rare field hearing on the Future of the Internet at Stanford University in Palo Alto, CA. In attendance were all 5 members of the Commission and representatives from all sides of the debate over the future of the open Internet including several members of the Open Internet Coalition, members of Congress, and Advocates for an open internet free of gatekeepers.
Read Rep. Eshoo's letter in support of the hearing.
Read coverage of the hearing in the San Jose Mercury News.
Read an op-ed column by Lawrence Lessig and Ben Scott from the San Francisco Chronicle.
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The Open Internet Coalition represents consumers, grassroots organizations, and businesses working in pursuit of a shared goal: keeping the Internet fast, open and accessible to all Americans.
Our coalition speaks for tens of millions of Americans and spans the entire political spectrum. In Washington and state capitols across the country we’re working for policies like network neutrality and universal access to high-speed Internet connections that will benefit all of us, not just the large phone and cable companies who sell connections to the Internet.
The Open Internet Coalition stands for:
An Open Internet
Access to broadband networks should be open to all producers and consumers of Internet content on fair and equal terms.
Universal Affordable Access
Broadband Internet access should be universally available and affordable.
Quality through Competition
A competitive marketplace creates jobs, helps the American consumer, fosters innovation, and drives economic growth.
We invite you to explore our site to learn more about what the Open Internet Coalition is doing to promote an Open Internet. If your organization shares our goals, please join our effort.
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| The Case for Universal Broadband in America: Now! The failure to achieve President Bush’s 2004 goal of universal broadband access to the Internet "in every corner of America by the year 2007" has cost our nation hundreds of billions of dollars in added economic development and over a million newly-created high-paying jobs, according to a report by the nonprofit Center for Creative Voices in Media. |
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