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  Heather Leigh

  

  Who's fighting to save the internet now?

  The Verge - Adi Robertson

  Net neutrality supporters gear up to take on the FCC After years of pressure from ISPs, net neutrality is under threat by the FCC itself. Chair Tom Wheeler promised to revive the Open Internet Order after it saw an unceremonious defeat in January, but a leaked version of his latest proposal would …

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  Heather Leigh

  

  Mozilla: We have a fix for Net neutrality

  CNET - Marguerite Reardon

  A proposal to the FCC puts a new twist on the old idea of “reclassifying” broadband traffic to ensure that the new Net neutrality rules will stick.

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  Heather Leigh

  

  Net Neutrality Run Down By FCC Fast Lane Proposal

  ReadWrite - anthony myers

  Tom Wheeler, the chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, is moving forward with a controversial plan that would allow Internet Service Providers (ISPs) to charge content providers for faster service, which is against the basic principle of net neutrality. Wheeler’s carefully worded blog …

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  Heather Leigh

  

  The internet is fucked

  The Verge - Nilay Patel

  In a perfect storm of corporate greed and broken government, the internet has gone from vibrant center of the new economy to burgeoning tool of economic control. Where America once had Rockefeller and Carnegie, it now has Comcast’s Brian Roberts, AT&T’s Randall Stephenson, and Verizon’s Lowell …

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  Heather Leigh

  

  Comcast’s deal with Netflix makes network neutrality obsolete

  The Washington Post - Timothy B. Lee

  For the past two decades, the Internet has operated as an unregulated, competitive free market. Given the tendency of networked industries to lapse into monopoly—think of AT&T's 70-year hold over telephone service, for example—that's a minor miracle. But recent developments are putting the …

• http://gigaom.com/2014/02/23/the-netflix-comcast-agreement-isnt-a-network-neutrality-violation-but-it-is-a-problem/

  

  Heather Leigh

  Feb 24, 2014