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List: U.S. Congress Representatives Who Co-Signed Joint Letter Asking to Halt FCC Broadband Re-Classification in Support of ISPs
These are the Democratic Representatives who took action and publicly co-signed their notice (a submitted letter) to take the side of the ISPs.  These folks have now gone on record.  What appears below is also a matter of [...]

The ISP - broadband providers of the last mile of the internet are “buying” the influence they want to have rules which govern the internet change which result in legalized theft.  Is that plain enough?
The research presented in today’s ZDNet - Government article; “Apple vs. Google vs. Microsoft: who’s spending more to influence Congress?” by [...]

It seems like the moment of truth has arrived for FCC Chairperson Genachowski. It is being widely reported (in the Washington Post and elsewhere) that the chairman is about to announce his decision regarding the much anticipated FCC Broadband reclassification step the agency can take that would instantiate it as a regulatory body that [...]

Freedom is American thing… not a liberal or conservative thing… it’s American.
This is why the Christian Coalition of America, the Gunowners of America, the National Religious Broadcasters, and the Parents Television Council, very conservative organizations all… support “Net Neutrality.”  (see the Christian Coalition post)
However, Comcast, AT&T and Verizon are spending millions to bribe every aspect [...]

AT&T is evil.
Over the last 28 months it spent over $750M of the profits it took from me, from you and from all its customers and spent it not on a better service, or infrastructure, or any new innovation, or even dividends returned to shareholders … but on lobbying efforts to defeat the FCC, the [...]

This year, the Federal Communication Commission (FCC) is scheduled to formally issue a series of official Internet use and governance policy decisions/rulings in regards to a general set of principles commonly referred to as; Net Neutrality.
These decisions/rulings have gravity and consequence beyond the dominion in which these actions by these actors are conceived.  More wisdom, [...]