Net neutrality basically says that companies providing provide Internet access can make money charging for bandwidth, but they can’t use their monopoly power to extort extra payments from successful Internet businesses, large and small, by threatening to block or slow … Continue reading
Net neutrality is a policy that requires Internet service providers to treat all traffic equally. ISPs would prefer to be able to make free money by letting giant corporations pay to slow down access to competitors’ websites (or refrain from … Continue reading
HBO’s John Oliver does an excellent job explaining why net neutrality is important and why politically powerful opponents are winning the game. (As he points out, it was Obama who nominated a top cable company lobbyist to head the FCC.) … Continue reading
When I worked in television in the early 1980s there were rules limiting how many television stations could be owned by a single company, both nationwide and in a single market. I thought this was a good idea at the … Continue reading