net neutrality

Open Left reports that all of the candidates challenging incumbents and having more than $500,000 on hand (hence, the handle "major") report that they favor net neutrality (initiative to keep a robust internet available to all rather than only making it available for a few who will pay more), even though some have accepted hefty campa

…One giant leap for Net Neutrality!

Comcast is testing a “new method” of tracking internet users — supposedly targeting “bandwith hogs.”

Comcast will start testing a new method for managing traffic on its network this week that targets heavy Internet users.

• Qtrax now has a deal with Universal Music Group for both recorded music and publishing. The P2P company had previously come to terms with EMI Music Publishing and Sony/ATV. (AP)

Poetry News:

1. — I think that you have to go on your nerve—that’s something Frank O’Hara used to say —

Extra tickets on sale at 10 a.m. today (Monday) via the "T" command (Tour Dates) at The Raconteurs' website. Here's to net neutrality.

(Via Out the Other.)

One thing here in Rural America that we know about is about our ability of speed on the Internet.

If you have a few minutes, this explains a lot about why Net Neutrality is so important.

Southern Beale reports that at this week’s FCC public hearing on net neutrality in Boston, Comcast paid its employees to fill all the seats:

So a major corporation already in the news for violating American citizens’ Fourth Amendment rights uses its wealth and power to deny citizens access to a public hearing. The mainstream media should be all over this story, right?

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This is one of the most blatant attempts to hijack democracy by a corporation that I’ve seen in a long time. At this week’s FCC public hearing on net neutrality in Boston, Comcast paid its employees to fill all the seats, so the general public couldn’t attend: 

Comcast admitted to paying its employees to sit in at a F.C.C. hearing on net neutrality at the Harvard Law School

Via Josh Marshall, Comcast admits to paying otherwise disinterested Cambridge passers-by to fill seats so that advocates of net neutrality could not attend an FCC hearing on the subject at Harvard. You have to see the photo of the Comcastic mercenaries sleeping through the hearing. It's democracy at work, with the cable giant wasting