Georgia’s Internet Uprising
A coalition of Georgia mayors, counties and local activists overcame an industry-backed bill that would have prohibited municipalities from building their own broadband networks. Continue reading The...
View ArticleThe End of the (Wire)Line
Discover why companies like AT&T want to unplug the way roughly 19 million Americans still communicate with the rest of the world. Continue reading The post The End of the (Wire)Line appeared first...
View ArticleMerging Cable Giants Is ‘an Affront to the Public Interest’
When it comes to media, bigger is not better. Continue reading The post Merging Cable Giants Is ‘an Affront to the Public Interest’ appeared first on BillMoyers.com.
View ArticleHow States Are Fighting to Keep Towns From Offering Their Own Broadband
North Carolina and Tennessee are the latest states to side with telecoms, which have long lobbied against allowing cities to become Internet providers. Continue reading The post How States Are Fighting...
View ArticleThe Scariest Cable Merger Nobody in Washington Is Talking About
When Comcast tried to merge with Time Warner Cable last year, reaction was swift and negative. Not many people liked the idea of America’s largest and least loved cable company getting any bigger; the...
View ArticleIf Presidential Candidates Love the Internet, They Need to Set It Free
What has the Internet done for presidential candidates lately? In a recent Nation article, civic technology advocate Micah Sifry heralds the Clinton and Sanders campaigns for using the network to...
View ArticleNet Neutrality Ruling Finally Rights a Terrible Wrong
“For the reasons set forth is this opinion, we deny the petitions for review.” Those were the sweetest words I’ve heard in a long while, as the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit...
View ArticleDecoding the Doublespeak of FCC Chairman Pai
This post originally appeared at The American Prospect. Michael Flynn, Kellyanne Conway and Stephen Miller aren’t the only Donald Trump surrogates who’ve had a very bad couple of weeks. Ajit Pai, the...
View ArticleThe FCC Pretends to Support Net Neutrality and Privacy While Moving to Gut Both
FCC Chairman Ajit Pai has proposed a plan to eliminate privacy for broadband subscribers. Of course, those protections are tremendously popular, so Chairman Pai and his allies have been forced to pay...
View ArticleAfter Coal, a Small Kentucky Town Builds a Healthier, More Creative Economy
Nearly 50 years ago, on a presidential campaign swing through eastern Kentucky, Sen. Robert Kennedy promised to help a disabled coal miner build a community center in the tiny mountain town of Hemphill...
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