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Two burning questions about the Verizon-Cable deal
Verizon General Counsel Randal Milch testifies in Washington Washington lawmakers on Wednesday pressed Verizon(s vz) and Comcast(s cmcsa) for two hours on their plan to tag team the residential...
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Carriers, unions, policy groups agree: Stop Verizon’s cable deal
A raft of Verizon’s (s vz) biggest critics have banded together to try and block Big Red’s purchase of 4G airwaves from the cable providers – or at least delay it. On Tuesday, Sprint(s s), DirecTV(s...
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Carriers, policy groups join up to (sort of) stop Verizon-cable deal
T-Mobile, Sprint(s s), rural carriers and advocacy group Public Knowledge have teamed up to create a mobile version of the Super Friends, their sole mission to battle the Verizon-cable Legion of Doom....
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Consumer Federation adds voice to growing Verizon-cable opposition
Regulators should view Verizon’s(s vz)(s vod) planned pact with the cable operators as a merger, not as a joint venture, argues the Consumer Federation of America. Seen in that light, the CFA said in a...
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Why WikiLeaks is worth defending, despite all of its flaws
By now, anyone with even a passing interest in the WikiLeaks phenomenon is familiar with most of the elements of its fall from grace: the rift between founder Julian Assange and early supporters over...
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AT&T will be slapped with net neutrality complaint over FaceTime blocking
Free Press, Public Knowledge, and the New America Foundation’s Open Technology Institute have informed AT&T(s t) that they intend to file a complaint with the Federal Communications Commission...
View ArticleThe EU’s “right to be forgotten” is a bad idea, and Google is handling it...
This week, Google (s goog) has begun notifying British media outlets that some of their news articles may not be available to UK audiences as a result of a European Union court decision enshrining the...
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For better or worse, Twitter and Facebook are the guardians of free speech now
One of the most famous free-speech cases in U.S. history, the one that allowed publishers to live without fear of being bankrupted by a libel or defamation suit, involved a newspaper — namely the New...
View ArticleNet neutrality’s cost to consumers pegged at $17B — or zero
After a dramatic shift in the debate over net neutrality last month, many expect the FCC will reclassify internet providers so as to bar them from giving special treatment to some websites over others....
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Emily Bell: Social networks and journalists need to work together
As we’ve described here a number of times, one of the biggest disruptions in the media industry has been on the distribution end — the actual creation of journalism and other content has also changed,...
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