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I am rather new to this but based on my understanding, net neutrality is the founding principle of the Internet that makes it free and open to everyone who uses it.  This principle allows viewers to see what videos they want to watch, shoppers to buy things at a fast pace, and bloggers like me to express their thoughts and feelings for everyone to share.  But currently, major communications companies like AT&T, Verizon, and Comcast are trying to buy the Internet for them to use as their private property.  It is being done by  Here is my prediction of what would happen when this occurs: the content what articles we write and what videos we post would be controlled by the corporate owners, who would act as "gatekeepers" of the Internet connection.  Creativity would be hindered and what we create would judged by those gatekeepers in terms of profitability.  The very people who use and depend on the Internet would have to pay the new providers just to use

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We are happy there is advocacy for this, and there should be. It is most important that the people, particularly those who are disenfranchised, have access to participate on both sides of the spectrum ( up and down ) and are not solely exploited to generate user content to ultimately benefit phone, cable or companies such as Google, YouTube, etc..

WCCA TV looks for a public access component to ensure people have access to channels of communication, tools to enable real participation, and education to facilitate and help meet all community media needs whether on line, or anything yet to be invented.

The chart does have some helpful resources.

If you are a candidate for a local office and wish to gain some TV coverage, have you thought about appearing on a public access show to discuss various issues or to share your perspective? It may be just the insight voters will need as they consider and make an informed decision on who to vote for.

If you are interested in reaching over 50,000 homes as well as many more on line via WCCA TV 13, give Mauro DePasquale a call at 508-755-1880 ext 11

Ask about our candidate open mic night which is scheduled for Wednesday, September 29th.

I have been preparing myself to write this entry for sometime as this is bound to be one of the most ambitious entries I have written so far.  When I was a kid, I had considered animation to be something as entertainment shows purely for children based on the animated shows I have seen from Disney and Nickelodeon.  I had outgrown this sort of thing in my teenage years.  Then one day (or rather one evening) in the middle of my high school years, I have discovered and watched a Japanese animated movie called Ghost in the Shell.  I had only one word on my mind as I watched it: "whoa."  At the time, I had never seen anything like this before.  Specifically speaking, I never realized that any animated program, whether it be a movie or a TV series, can be capable of being highly sophisticated in design and mature in storytelling.  And this type of animation, I immediately realized as I watched the first minutes of Ghost in the Shell, is not geared

We hope this won't happen, but in a places like the corporate world and government where it many times seems like greed is god it could be possible. We received the following which plays out like a sleezy porno movie complete with wha wha guitar chinking away in the background, from Chuck Sherwood this morning on the Alliance list serve, written by Bruce Kushnick and forwarded to tleletruth dot org.

Teletruth News Analysis, August 16th, 2010

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Google and Verizon: Be afraid. Be very afraid.

Verizon and Google recently created an "understanding" over the Internet and
net neutrality titled: "Verizon-Google Legislative Framework Proposal".

The details don't really matter at this point. What matters is --- Google is
not going to be a force that will protect the public interest from the
controllers of the wires, who are now engaged in serious anti-trust games.
Comcast, AT&T and Verizon are now lobbying, funding astroturf groups, (fake
consumer groups), a horde of paid-off minority groups, not to mention
corporate-funded think tanks, state and federal Congressmen and Senators
--- all to make sure that the wires are private property for their use, with
walled-in ghettos of influence and control. Read more