Free Press Resumes Network Neutrality Push

Free Press is renewing its push for Network Neutrality legislation. Executive Director Josh Silver, in an e-mail to supporters, said that the group is "re-engaging its Savetheinternet.com coalition," comprising 850 organizations, 6,000 bloggers and 1.6 million people. Silver says coalition members will press the flesh and organize a "letter to the editor" campaign to "flood local newspapers" with stories about "why an open, accessible Internet matters." The effort comes in the wake of the passage of the economic stimulus bill with $7.2 billion earmarked for broadband infrastructure that include openness conditions, interconnection and build-out conditions, though the former has yet to be defined.