How Big Telecom Increases Our Digital Divide
America has a wide digital divide — high-speed Internet access is available only to those who can afford it, at prices much higher and speeds much slower in the U.S. than they are around the world.But...
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Bringing High-Speed Internet to Cajun Country
When reporters from Moyers on America visited Lafayette, Louisiana in 2006, residents and officials had taken on the phone and cable companies to build their own fiber-optic broadband network after the...
View ArticleSusan Crawford on Why U.S. Internet Access is Slow, Costly and Unfair
Susan Crawford, former special assistant to President Obama for science, technology and innovation, and author of Captive Audience: The Telecom Industry and Monopoly Power in the New Gilded Age, joins...
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How Connected is Your Community?
As telecommunications policy expert Susan Crawford pointed out to Bill, over the past decade, America has fallen behind many other wealthy countries in access to high-speed Internet. The Organisation...
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Georgia’s Internet Uprising
This article first appeared on The Huffington Post.Georgia State Capitol building in Atlanta, Georgia. Photo by J. Glover courtesy of Wikicommons.The movement to connect more people to high-speed...
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The End of the (Wire)Line
Main Street in downtown Hugo, Colo. (AP Photo/Ed Andrieski, File)If you’re an American who lives in the middle of nowhere and you want phone and Internet service, you can pretty much have them, albeit...
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Merging Cable Giants Is ‘an Affront to the Public Interest’
The post first appeared in The Nation. In this Dec. 3, 2009 file photo, a sign outside the Comcast Center, left, is shown in Philadelphia. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke) When it comes to media, bigger is not...
View ArticleThe Net @ Risk
The future of the Internet is up for grabs in this 2006 documentary that is still worth watching eight years later. At the time, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) had effectively eliminated...
View ArticlePreview: Is Net Neutrality Dead?
For years, the government has upheld the principle of “Net neutrality,” the belief that everyone should have equal access to the web without preferential treatment. But now, Tom Wheeler, chairman of...
View ArticleVirtual Radio, The Massing of the Media, Los Angeles 10 Years Later
The week before this 2002 episode of NOW With Bill Moyers aired, a Senate sub-committee met for hearings on a media merger that would create the biggest cable company in America. Bill considers how...
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How States Are Fighting to Keep Towns From Offering Their Own Broadband
This post first appeared at ProPublica. (Photo: Sean MacEntee/flickr CC 2.0) Earlier this year, the Federal Communications Commission voted to ease the way for cities to become Internet service...
View ArticleThe Scariest Cable Merger Nobody in Washington Is Talking About
This piece originally appeared on Medium. 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...
View ArticleIf Presidential Candidates Love the Internet, They Need to Set It Free
What has the Internet done for presidential candidates lately? The frequent disconnect between campaigns’ use of the Internet and candidates’ positions on Internet rights is a problem.— Tim Karr, Free...
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Net 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...
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The FCC Pretends to Support Net Neutrality and Privacy While Moving to Gut Both
This post originally appeared at the Electronic Frontier Foundation*. FCC Chairman Ajit Pai has proposed a plan to eliminate net neutrality and privacy for broadband subscribers. Of course, those...
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After Coal, a Small Kentucky Town Builds a Healthier, More Creative Economy
This post originally appeared at Yes! Magazine. Nearly 50 years ago, on a presidential campaign swing through eastern Kentucky, Sen. Robert Kennedy promised to help a disabled coal miner build a...
View ArticleGeorgia’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.
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