Bush Justice Dept. sides with AT&T against net neutrality - what a surprise

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Bush Justice Dept. sides with AT&T against net neutrality - what a surprise
Submitted by jonathan on Thu, 2007-09-06
http://reclaimthemedia.org/broadband_cable/bust_justice_dept_sides_with_a%3D5430


Today, the Department of Justice Antitrust Division filed comments with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) on the issue of “network neutrality” — whether broadband providers such as AT&T, Comcast, and other telephone and cable companies can monitor, filter, or otherwise interfere with a subscriber’s use of internet services or internet content. The filing parrots the industry arguments that adopting a rule that would prevent telephone and cable companies from monitoring and filtering internet traffic would harm investment and innovation, despite mounting evidence from Europe and Asia that the opposite is true.

Harold Feld, Senior Vice President of the Media Access Project, had the following statement in response:

“It would seem that the President and the Justice Department cannot do enough for AT&T and the other companies that agreed to spy on the American people. Without network neutrality, companies are free to turn over user information without a warrant or block users from desired content — as AT&T recently did ‘accidentally’ by blocking Pearl Jam’s criticism of the President during a concert performance carried on AT&T’s broadband service.”

“Factually, the Department of Justice filing — like the industry filings it shamelessly parrots — is plain wrong. ..........

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Source URL: www.mediaaccess.org/press/2007-09-06-DOJ-NNResponse.pdf

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1. Almost as if AT&T were a wing of the Neo-Con agenda

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2. Also, there is a vice-versa, Bushco is the political wing of global Corporations

Emphasis on global. The Bush admin has monetized the USG, and the money flow (read national debt) does not stay in the USA.

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3. visibility kick