Internet Users Stop Comcast, Net Neutrality Win on the Horizon

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http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/07/12/10310/

Internet Users Stop Comcast, Net Neutrality Win on the Horizon
by Timothy Karr


Federal Communications Commission Chairman Kevin Martin is taking action against Comcast for illegally violating Net Neutrality, after a coalition of Net users and activists caught the cable giant blocking open access to the Internet.

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The Fight Continues

Martin’s move is a major victory. But this fight is far from over. His order has yet to pass, though it seems likely. The cable companies — and the phone companies, too, even though they’re trying to distance themselves from Comcast — will be back with their money, lawyers and phony grassroots groups to try to take control of the Internet and establish themselves as gatekeepers.

Companies like Comcast, AT&T and Verizon are spending hundreds of millions of dollars to lobby Washington to gut Net Neutrality and hand over control of the Internet to them. But they so far have failed to overcome widespread and organized public opposition.

Today we can celebrate a huge victory for real people, but we need to continue this fight to send a clear signal to the next Congress and White House that standing with regular people for a free and open Internet is a winning proposition.


As the Campaign Director for Free Press and SavetheInternet.com, Karr oversees campaigns on public broadcasting and noncommercial media, fake news and propaganda, journalism in crisis, and the future of the Internet.

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1. Did we get Net Neutrality passed? nt

[babylonsister]

2. I don't know that anything has been resolved; here's more than

you ever wanted to know about NN...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_neutrality

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3. Terrific. nt