Eight Democratic representatives for Texas signed an industry-written letter to the FCC calling for them to abandon attempts to regulate net neutrality. Completely coincidentally, they were all recipients of tens of thousands of dollars of lobbyist money. Now would be a good time to contact them and let them know that you want net neutrality.
Update: The anti-net-neutrality astroturfing campaign presentation was a class project. The industry-backed web site, however, is sadly genuine. It states that it “opposes a government-run Internet”, clearly trying to imply that net neutrality advocates favor that. It all seems transparently dishonest to me, but perhaps it will fool someone.
Time-Warner’s nightmare is coming true: The Yankee Group is predicting that 1 in 8 households will drop cable or satellite TV in 2010. Will you be one of them?
