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City on a Hill Press The magic of the Internet is not lost on us. We are the YouTube generation, cursed with the capabilities of extreme multicrastination. We surf, we Digg and we blog, all without realizing the ongoing fight for control of the web....

Timothy Karr, The Huffington Post Buried deep in President Barack Obama’s American Reinvestment and Recovery Act is a line that should bring a smile to your face—and a scowl to phone and cable industry lobbyists. Link...

Joseph Palermo, The Huffington Post Dick Cheney, Karl Rove, Ari Fleischer and other right-wing mouthpieces are trying to frame future debates while they reinvent the George W. Bush years. Their eerie falsehoods, half-truths, revisions, and lies are given added weight because they sit atop a...

Stacey Higginbotham, GIGAOM The Free Press issued a report today that blames deep packet inspection technology for “The End of the Internet,” arguing that Internet service providers’ use of equipment that can inspect individual packets of data should raise concerns for both users and lawmakers....

Seton Motley, News Busters In today’s Huffington Post is Joseph A. Palermo’s “Cheney, Rove, and Fleischer and the Importance of Net Neutrality.” Net neutrality, you see, is yet another way the Left hopes to silence their opposition—and Palermo calls on Obama’s Federal Communications Commission (FCC)...

Steve Robinson, Media Post The month of February witnessed news, discussions, and potential relationships between cable operators, cable programmers and network broadcasters regarding online distribution of video content.  First hulu.com shut down video content distribution to Boxee and TV.com. On the tails of this announcement,...

Adam O’Donnell, ZDNet While it may sound like treating all ISP traffic equally is a good idea, mandating strict net neutrality hurts computer security for all of us. Those of you who are tech heads and reside in the United States should all be familiar...

Michael McDonnough, Nolan Chart This legislation proposed in the USA is nothing more than a fear based reaction to an implied threat to internet democracy based on content controls proposed by the ISPs mainly to prevent degraded service that this type of bandwidth management system...

Josh Lavoie, straight.com Unlike many other media, like print, television, and radio, the Internet is largely uncontrolled. Despite the fact that the majority of critical Internet infrastructure is based in the United States, and is therefore subject to the influence of the U.S. government, things...

Jason Lee Miller, WebProNews Feinstein Tries To Slip One In Though it had nothing do with creating jobs or stimulating the economy and had everything to do with sneaking in a pro-Entertainment industry initiative, Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) almost single-handedly dealt a deadly blow to...