The Senate Commerce Committee is meeting today to begin consideration of Chairman Stevens' Communications, Consumer's Choice, and Broadband Deployment Act of 2006 (S. 2686). Benton has prepared a summary of key provisions in the bill.
See the hearing at http://commerce.senate.gov/public/
This week, AT&T and Verizon have been implicated as partners with the government in the huge secret illegal "data mining" of millions of Americans' phone records. Coincidentally, these two Big Telcos are now beseeching the government for the unfettered power to restrict access to Internet web sites and discriminate against Internet content. Should the Internet be under the thumb of these new giant would-be media/Internet gatekeepers who so easily, apparently, violate the law when the government comes knocking?
FIGHTING FOR AN OPEN SOCIETY
[SOURCE: Center for Creative Voices in Media]
HANGING UP ON COMPETITION
[SOURCE: C-Net|News.com, AUTHOR: Mayor Martin Chavez, Albuquerque]
JUDICIARY UNLIKELY TO GET A CRACK AT BARTON'S TELECOM BILL, SOURCES SAY
[SOURCE: Congressional Quarterly, AUTHOR: Joelle Tessler]
DON'T BE DUPED BY NET NEUTRALITY, SAY SENATORS
[SOURCE: Broadcasting&Cable, AUTHOR: John Eggerton]
Senators Sam Brownback (R-Kansas) and Jim DeMint (R-SC) have sent a letter to their colleagues warning them not to be "duped" by advocates of network neutrality. They argue that networks need to be free of regulation to spend the billions it will take to develop next-generation broadband, including technologies that help parents control their children's surfing. Sen Brownback prefers the heavy hand of regulation fall on broadcasters, sponsoring the Senate bill upping FCC indecency fines.
THE WEB'S WORST NEW IDEA
[SOURCE: Wall Street Journal, AUTHOR: Editorial Staff]
SAVING INTERNET EQUALITY
[SOURCE: San Jose Mercury News 5/16, AUTHOR: Editorial Staff]
GROUPS WARN CONGRESS OF DANGERS OF COPE BILL ON INTERNET
[SOURCE: Common Cause]
WILL THE SENATE SAVE THE INTERNET?
[SOURCE: TPM Cafe, AUTHOR: Art Brodsky]
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