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Open Letter to FCC Calling for Real Net Neutrality (marxists)

freepress ^ | December 10, 2010 | marxists

Posted on by bronxville

Open Letter to FCC Calling for Real Net Neutrality

More than 80 grassroots organizations, consumer groups, civil rights organizations, innovative businesses, technology experts and public interest advocates filed a letter with the Federal Communications Commission on Friday, signaling broad support for strong Network Neutrality rules. The letter highlighted five key areas in which rules proposed by FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski must be improved to protect the free and open Internet. The Commission is slated to vote on Net Neutrality on Dec. 21. FCC_Letter_Real_Net_Neutrality.pdf

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TOPICS:

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KEYWORDS:

censorship

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freepress

freespeech

netneutrality

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Note the Islamic looking logo.



To: bronxville

More than 80 grassroots organizations How many funded by Soros?



To: bronxville

Hey libs...you want war? Make our day. May as well get this over with.



To: bronxville

Sean McLaughlin

Executive Director

Access Humboldt Josh King

Board Member

Acorn Active Media Foundation Jay April

CEO

Akaku: Maui Community Television David S. Bennahum

President & CEO

The American Independent News Network Scherazade Daruvalla King

Executive Director

amplifyme Barbara Kooyman

Director

Artists For Media Diversity Charles Benton

Chairman

Benton Foundation Jim Miller

Executive Director

Brave New Films Donna L. Gacek

Executive Director

Cape Ann Regional Cable TV Access Corporation Randy Paynter

CEO

Care2 Susan Fleischmann

Executive Director

Cambridge Community Television Lauren-Glenn Davitian

Executive Director

CCTV Center for Media & Democracy Jeffrey Chester

Executive Director

Center for Digital Democracy Malkia Cyril

Executive Director

Center for Media Justice Dee Davis

President

Center for Rural Strategies Ben Rattray

Founder & CEO

Change.org James Rucker

Executive Director

ColorofChange.org Bob Edgar

President

Common Cause Thom Clark

President

Community Media Workshop Dan Meredith

Founding Board Member

CUWiN Foundation Markos Moulitsas

Founder

DailyKos Levana Layendecker

Communications Director

Democracy for America Jennifer Mercurio

Vice President & General Counsel

Entertainment Consumers Association Rob Stuart

President

Evolve Strategies Miriam Zoila Perez

Editor

Feministing.com Josh Silver

President & CEO

Free Press David Hirsch

Managing Director

Friends of the Earth Casey Rae-Hunter

Communications Director & Policy

Strategist Future of Music Coalition

Christopher Mitchell

Director of the Telecommunications as Commons Initiative

Institute for Local Self-Reliance Lauren Hauser

Manager of Youth Programs

LinkTV Steven Renderos

Program Director, Media Justice

Main Street Project Tyrone Brown

President

Media Access Project Tracy Rosenberg

Executive Director

Media Alliance Tracy Van Slyke

Director

The Media Consortium Ariel Dougherty

National Project Director

Media Equity Collaborative Andrea Quijada

Executive Director

Media Literacy Project Todd Wolfson

Co-Founder

Media Mobilizing Project Annie Folger

Executive Director

Midpeninsula Community Media Center Margaret Kaplan

Director

The Minnesota Center for Neighborhood Organizing Chris Csikszentmihalyi

Director

MIT Center for Future Civic Media Jed Alpert

CEO

Mobile Commons Steve Katz

Publisher

Mother Jones Wally Bowen

Executive Director

Mountain Area Information Network Peter Rothberg

Associate Publisher for Special Projects

The Nation Iván Román

Executive Director

National Association of Hispanic Journalists Kathryn Galan

Executive Director

National Association of Latino Independent Producers Maxie C Jackson III

President & CEO

National Federation of Community Broadcasters Alex Nogales

President & CEO

National Hispanic Media Coalition Catherine Tactaquin

Executive Director

National Network for Immigrant and Refugee Rights Loris Taylor

Executive Director

Native Public Media Peter Hussmann

Editor

Newton Independent Holly Ross

Executive Director

Nonprofit Technology Network (NTEN) Nick Grossman

Director of Civic Works

Open Plans Eddie Geller

President & Founder

Open Source Democracy Foundation Sascha Meinrath

Director

Open Technology Initiative New America Foundation Jeff Cohen

Director

Park Center for Independent Media Nicholas Reville

Co-Founder & Executive Director

Participatory Culture Foundation Duke Schempp

Organizer

The People’s Press Project Carlos Pareja

Trainings & Policy Director

People’s Production House Gretjen Clausing

Executive Director

Philadelphia Community Access Media Roberto Lovato

Co-Founder

Presente.org Cara Berg Powers

Co-Director, Curriculum and Outreach

Press Pass TV Brandy Doyle, Danielle Chynoweth,

Pete Tridish, and Vanessa Graber,

Leadership Team,

Prometheus Radio Project Gigi Sohn

President & Co-Founder

Public Knowledge Steve Ranieri

Director

Quote...Unquote, Inc Allyson Kapin

Co-Founder

Rad Campaign Jonathan Lawson

Executive Director

Reclaim the Media Clothilde Le Coz

Washington D.C. Director

Reporters Without Borders Louis Massiah

Executive Director

Scribe Video Center Justine Bateman

Owner

Section5 David Cohn

Executive Director

Spot.Us Phillip Dampier

Founder

StoptheCap Belinda Rawlins

Executive Director

Transmission Project Jason Barnett

Executive Director

The UpTake Cheryl Leanza

Policy Director

United Church of Christ Office of Communication, Inc. Miller Puckette

Chair, Music Department

University of California, San Diego Ed Mierzwinski

Consumer Program Director

U.S. Public Interest Research Group Jaclyn Friedman

Executive Director

Women, Action & the Media Jennifer Pozner

Executive Director

Women in Media & News Allyson Kapin

Founder

Women Who Tech Fran Korten

Executive Director

YES! Magazine Venky Srinivasan

Founder & CEO

Zediva

http://www.freepress.net/files/FCC_Letter_Real_Net_Neutrality.pdf



To: a fool in paradise

Good question. There’s a few here one can see at a glance... I also see David Fenton...he’s never around unless there’s big money involved. Whose the client?



To: bronxville

Enjoy not being able to stream netflix unless you sign up for the most expensive plan. Or better yet, enjoy not being able to get to freerepublic as your ISP blocks the site. I swear, some people are 100% clueless when it comes to net neutality. What do you think this is? Free Internet for everyone, paid by the telcos? You people have no idea the ways companies are going to carve up the Internet and make it unusable.



To: bronxville

Who really funds FreePress and its net neutrality allies? Submitted by Scott Cleland on Fri, 2009-10-02 18:16 Conflict of InterestFCCNet NeutralityOpen Internet I posted the comment below on the Washington Post’s IT blogpost where FreePress urged the the Post to disclose its financial interests in cable systems. FreePress hounds any voice that doesn’t support ‘net neutrality’ regulation to disclose their financial interests, like they did with urging the Washington Post to disclose that they owned cable systems in their editorial opposing net neutrality. I agree they should have disclosed, but I dont agree that disclosure is only important for net neutrality opponents, but not for proponents like FreePress and its allies. Whats good for the goose is good for the gander. FreePress has frequently attacked me as a shill and Astroturf. They ignore that I openly, unabashedly, and regularly disclose that my firm Precursor LLC is an industry consulting firm that works for companies and that I am Chairman of NetCompetition.org which is funded by broadband interests. It is not news that I strongly agree with the broadband sector view that markets produce better outcomes for consumers than regulation. If transparency is truly important to Free Press, why doesnt FreePress lead by example and openly disclose who all their major funders are and also demand that other prominent activist organizations in the net neutrality debate like New America Foundation, Public Knowledge, and the Media Access Project also fully disclose their corporate funding directly from Google, eBay, Amazon, or indirectly from their executives, employees or friends? FreePress and its allies would have more credibility if they lived up to the standard they demand from everyone else and publicly disclosed who their corporate or wealthy sponsors are. FreePress doesnt trust the representations of anyone else, why should anyone trust FreePress claims of being free of big money interests — be they corporate or individual? So self-appointed astroturf-busters Mr. Tim Karr and Mr. Derek Turner of FreePress, be principled, take the high road, lead by example, and paste your major contributor list here and insist that your net neutrality regulation allies do the same. Come clean. http://www.precursorblog.com/content/who-really-funds-freepress-and-its-net-neutrality-allies



To: bronxville

“Note the Islamic looking logo.” Note the slogan! Reform media? Heh heh ... NPR good, Fox bad, I’m guessing. Transform Democracy. Yeah, we’ve got a good glimpse of that right now. These bastards aren’t going to let up, we will be at it soon if they keep this up. Wonder how Third Manassas will turn out?



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To: bronxville

Comment from the above article - “In denial Submitted by Brett Glass on Sat, 2009-10-10 22:55. At http://www.wetmachine.com/totsf/item/1674, Harold Feld, besides launching an ad hominem attack against Scott, also denies that Free Press expunges the names of its contributors from its published Forms 990. But as one can see on page 16 of the PDF at - http://www.freepress.net/files/FP_990_combined_Final.pdf, Free Press really does blot the names out. We do know the identities of some of Free Press’ funding sources, because while Free Press does not publish their names, some of the funders disclose that they’re giving money to Free Press. For example, the Ford Foundation says that it has given Free Press several hundred thousand dollars. (This puts the lie to Free Press’ claim that it does not accept money from corporations, because the Ford Foundation is a corporation, albeit a nonprofit one.) But who else is contributing? Does Free Press use the all-too-common ruse of listing corporate contributions as personal contributions from their executives? Is this why Free Press won’t reveal the list?” One wonders if Benton has anything to do with them as I think they do “work” for some Muslim countries.



To: bronxville

Do REAL grassroots groups ever have to describe themselves as such?



To: bronxville

Media Mobilizing Project’s Facebook page is full of the usual impenetrable Marxist blather: “The central tenets of MMP are 1) issues of media democracy, justice and reform cannot be detached from larger socio-economic questions, and 2) new participatory media tools offer the possibility of fusing otherwise fragmented struggles for justice.”



To: SengirV

I know that the Julien guy -> Harvard w/ Obama, aide to marxist judge Abner Mikva, aide to Schumer, etc, on the FCC worked for billionaire Diller who just sold some stuff to Comcast. There are many facets and even more greedy people involved.



To: All

Free Press is a “national nonpartisan organization working to increase public participation in crucial media policy debates, and to generate policies which will produce a more competitive and public interest-oriented media system with a strong noncommercial sector.” Its founder and president is Robert McChesney. Executive Director - Josh Silver Salim Muwakkil - Advisory Board

Craig Aaron - Communications Director Funding Mobilizing Media Reform “was made possible with generous support from: Acra Foundation

Glaser Progress Foundation

Nathan Cummings Foundation

Otto Haas Charitable Trust

Overbrook Foundation

Park Foundation

Quixote Foundation

Schumann Center for Media and Democracy

and many individual donors.”

(source: enclosed brochure)

Ford Foundation

http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Free_Press From the lefties at sourcewatch... Salim Muwakkil - Advisory Board?



To: All

Salim Muwakkil “is a senior editor at IN THESE TIMES magazine. He is an Op-Ed columnist for the CHICAGO TRIBUNE, a member of the editorial board, and a columnist for, the Madison-based Progressive Media Project, an advisory board member of Free Press and a 2000 Media Fellow of the Soros Open Society Institute. He was a contributing columnist for the Op-Ed page of the CHICAGO SUN-TIMES from 1993 to 1997. His work has won him many awards - including the Studs Terkel Award for journalistic excellence. “Salim Muwakkil is a contributing author to six books: APPEAL TO REASON: 25 YEARS IN THESE TIMES, 2002; STATES OF CONFINEMENT, 2000; THE FARRAKHAN FACTOR: AFRICAN-AMERICAN WRITERS ON MINISTER LOUIS FARRAKHAN, 1998; THE BELL CURVE DEBATE, 1995; COLLATERAL DAMAGE: THE NEW WORLD ORDER AT HOME AND ABROAD, 1992; INSIDE THE L.A. RIOTS, 1992. “From 1986 to 1990 he taught journalism at Chicago’s Columbia College. He has also been an adjunct professor at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago’s Film Center, Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism, the Associated Colleges of the Midwest’s Urban Studies, and the University of Illinois in 2001. “From 1995-96 Muwakkil was a co-host of Pacifica News’ network daily “Democracy Now” program and from 1993 to 1996 he hosted a weekly talk show on Chicago radio station WVON-AM. Muwakkil is a frequent guest on CHICAGO TONIGHT, a public affairs program on PBS, BEYOND THE BELTWAY, a nationally syndicated radio program of political commentary. He has provided on-air political analysis for Fox TV News in Chicago and is an occasional commentator for the Pacifica News Network, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation and Monitor Radio.” [1] http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Salim_Muwakkil And, of course, Bill Moyers interviewed him...

http://www.pbs.org/now/society/muwakkil.html Another Chicago guy.



To: bronxville

Muakkil - Advisory

http://keywiki.org/index.php/Salim_Muwakkil Craig Aaron - Communications

http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Craig_Aaron They are consistent in mentioning nonpartisan (Ha!) but say nothing about nonprofit...



To: All

How this got started (so they say).... ..."I proposed a grassroots political organization: One that wouldnt be beholden to any party or politician, just solely dedicated to political action on behalf of the issues we care about. That organization is now the Open Source Democracy Foundation (OSDF). Net Neutrality was a natural choice to tackle as our first issue... http://www.savetheinternet.com/blog/10/12/06/reddit-users-stand-net-neutrality First issue? Here we go - be ready to button down the hatch because we're in for a rocky ride over the next two years. I would bet 5 bucks it's the dark knight Soros who strikes - he owns the "Open" word. Open to what exactly one might ask...

How this got started (so they say).... ..."I proposed a grassroots political organization: One that wouldnt be beholden to any party or politician, just solely dedicated to political action on behalf of the issues we care about. That organization is now the Open Source Democracy Foundation (OSDF). Net Neutrality was a natural choice to tackle as our first issue... http://www.savetheinternet.com/blog/10/12/06/reddit-users-stand-net-neutrality First issue? Here we go - be ready to button down the hatch because we're in for a rocky ride over the next two years. I would bet 5 bucks it's the dark knight Soros who strikes - he owns the "Open" word. Open to what exactly one might ask...

To: bronxville

If they would just define “net neutral”, the providers could be forced to only use the “net neutral” term to describe services that are within that definition. After that; free market.



To: bronxville

I would bet 5 bucks it's the dark knight Soros who strikes Strikes what? The telco's wanting to monetize every bit on the internet? Forcing customers to buy the highest tier product to approach the speed/delivery we experience now? Blocking sites they simply don't like? I think you need to take a look at what this is really about, besides simply looking for a boogie man.



To: SengirV

I posted 6-7 posts with lots of info and you attack me on twelve words... lol



To: bronxville

Info? What info? Anything pertaining to the core issues about net neutrality, or only ramblings about the boogie man behind everything the dems do? You sound like the dems talking about Rove years ago. Can you please describe the future with no net neutrality? How will it benefit consumers? I can list 1000 ways it will make for a MUCH worse user experience. Let me guess, you answer will be soros. No facts, just soros.



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