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FROM buisnessandmedia.org

Jeff Poor reports:

FCC Commissioner: Return of Fairness Doctrine Could Control Web Content
McDowell warns reinstated powers could play in net neutrality debate, lead to government requiring balance on Web sites.

There’s a huge concern among conservative talk radio hosts that reinstatement of the Fairness Doctrine would all-but destroy the industry due to equal time constraints. But speech limits might not stop at radio. They could even be extended to include the Internet and “government dictating content policy.”

Read the rest of the story here

Thanks to Chuck Sherwood for this:

You've
helped highlight just how little progress the U.S. is making in
high-speed Internet, and you can help push lawmakers to start turning
the situation around.

More than 230,000 of you took the speedmatters.org Speed Test over the
past twelve months. Today we released the second annual state-by-state
report on Internet speeds.

http://www.speedmatters.org/pages/state.html

The Speed Test, which measures the last-mile speed of your Internet
connection, shows that the 2008 median real-time download speed in the
U.S. is a mere 2.3 megabits per second (mbps). This represents a gain of
only 0.4 mbps over last year's median download speed. It compares to an
average download speed in Japan of 63 mbps. At this rate of progress, it
will take the U.S. more than 100 years to catch up with current Inernet
speeds in Japan. This is unacceptable for the country that invented the
Internet.

http://www.speedmatters.org/pages/state.html

The test results demonstrate the critical need for the U.S. to adopt a
comprehensive national broadband policy. As a first step, the Senate
should pass the Broadband Data Improvement Act (S.1492), a crucial piece
of legislation that will help our nation determine which parts of the
country have high-speed access and which do not. The bill would also
provide funding to states to increase broadband deployment and adoption.

Write your Senators and tell them you strongly support this bill:

http://www.unionvoice.org/campaign/s1492/iw3e3ux2a75n78t6?

The House of Representatives passed similar legislation last fall. It's
long past time for the Senate to act. The Broadband Data Improvement Act
will provide the research and the funding to help make sure every
American has affordable, high-speed Internet access. With an already
struggling economy, we can't afford to continue falling behind in high
speed broadband.

We need your help in the critical effort. Write a note to your Senators now:

http://www.unionvoice.org/campaign/s1492/iw3e3ux2a75n78t6?

Thank you for all your help in the fight for affordable high speed
Internet for all.

Sincerely,

Beth Allen
speedmatters.org Online Mobilization Coordinator

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My music pals may dig this. I am not endorsing it. But it is true. More and more, as forms of media/communication technology merges the lines defining TV and Internet are fading. Which means WCCA TV continues to be relevant and more so, as it to merges into the new tech world.

By the way. BIG DEAL site discussed in the article(link) will pay songwriters something like a whopping $.00005 per song scan ( I may be off a zero. You get the point ). Oh Yeah, the days of becoming famous may be somewhat possible, but forget about getting rich with this Internet scheme.
This seems to be the direction this i-market is taking. Capitalizing of the content created by others. They may call it media democracy but it seems to be nothing is really changed. Exploitation for a buck.

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To me, the following article is a warning that the city of Worcester should be paying attention and solidify a franchise before things shift against municipal and the PEG channel use of broadband. I have read that already Charter and Comcast have suggested they will follow suit. Net Neutrality must exist in order for PEG to remain on the Internet.
If we loose this, depending upon the use of the Internet to reach out and connect could be more costly than ever.

I am sharing this, with thanks, as it appears to be posted by Kim Peterson (Moneyblog Topstocks) and later presented on the ACM's list serve by Ron Beacom.
Time Warner trial ends flat-rate Internet fees

MD

Free Press launches FreetheiPhone.org
for wireless freedom and real open
access across all mobile networks

WASHINGTON -- Today, Free Press launched FreetheiPhone.org
-- a campaign demanding an open,
competitive wireless Internet for everyone. Apple's iPhone -- locked
into AT&T's slow, closed network -- is a bellweather for the future of
mobile Internet. Bad policies have created an unhealthy wireless
industry where companies like AT&T and Verizon are gatekeepers over the
mobile Internet -- with the power to block competition and chain devices
to their slow-speed networks.

The FreetheiPhone.org campaign aims to
change all of that. In coming weeks, the campaign will urge Americans to
demand that the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and Congress
give them the freedom to use all Internet devices on any wireless
network in a marketplace that offers true competition, services and
consumer choice.