During his first run for the White House, Barack Obama promised that he would take "a back seat to no one" on Net Neutrality.
Today, the president finally got in the driver's seat.
On a recent Monday night in Brooklyn, five empty chairs stood on stage — one for each member of the Federal Communications Commission. A crowd had amassed in the room for a public hearing to send this message to the agency: Don’t hurt the open Internet.
Forget Dracula, Chucky and the creature from the black lagoon. This Halloween FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler is considering Internet rules so scary they make Circus Peanuts look edible. And Comcast would be one of the beneficiaries.
Halloween came early to the FCC: Last night, word leaked that Chairman Tom Wheeler’s building a new Frankenstein proposal that’s not Net Neutrality (NOT Neutrality?).
If you were walking past the Brooklyn Central Library on Monday night, you might have seen a worst-case scenario from the future of the Internet brought to life.
Verizon is attempting to buy its way into the news cycle by creating a tech-news site.
But there’s a twist: SugarString.com will ban reporters from writing any stories about Net Neutrality or U.S. surveillance programs.
Comcast is coming off a pretty tough week. First the dog ate its homework, then the quintet it was trying to impress was like “Talk to the hand, Comcast, because the FCC ain’t listening!”
