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Topic: Net Neutrality7th District of Tennessee
There’s a lot of confusion about the term “net-neutrality,” which leads consumers to believe that before 2015 it was difficult to have free and fair access to the internet. This is not the case. Were you able to access the internet before 2015? Could you access websites for free? The answer is most likely yes. FCC regulations were not needed then, and they aren’t needed now. But there are some big internet issues we need to solve. «Read the rest of this article» Sections: Politics | No Comments
CDE Lightband releases Statement on FCC Reversal of Net Neutrality
This, in turn, means that companies that provide Internet access to consumers should not block nor throttle access to any sites that their customer wishes access to within the confines of the Internet service package and its bandwidth that they subscribe to. «Read the rest of this article» Sections: News | No Comments
U.S. President Barack Obama Urges FCC to Implement Stronger Net Neutrality Rules to keep the Internet Open and Free
The President has been a strong and consistent advocate of net neutrality since his first presidential campaign. President Obama’s plan would reclassify consumer broadband services under what’s known as Title II of the Telecommunications Act. «Read the rest of this article» Sections: News | No Comments
Marsha Blackburn campaign refuses to debateSends letter to supporters asking for $150,000 to fund reelection
Cramer, the Democratic nominee who is running to unseat Blackburn in the US House of Representatives, received no response when he reached out to Blackburn’s office last week by phone and mail. ![]() This picture is from a July debate in Bolivar, Tennessee, hosted by the Bolivar Bulletin-Times. All primary candidates for the 7th district race attended, save for Blackburn, who sent a surrogate. «Read the rest of this article» Sections: Politics | No Comments
What’s the Biggest Threat to Free Speech in America?If you thought phone companies were simply supposed to get you connected, think again.
Over the last several weeks we learned that the nation’s two largest telecommunications firms want to get into the business of censorship as well — blocking the free flow of information over phones and the Internet. We saw an unsettling example of just how bad this can get last week. Verizon Wireless blocked text messages that national pro-choice group NARAL wanted to send to their members. That they reversed the decision after the censorship was exposed should offer little comfort. While they may have scrambled to fix one “dusty policy” and let these messages through, we can see in the details of this and other episodes a worrisome pattern of abuse. And it’s not just at Verizon. Over the weekend, the technophiles at Slashdot exposed what many of us failed to read in the fine print of our AT&T customer agreements. «Read the rest of this article» Support Net Neutrality
They already control your Internet connection and now want to use that gatekeeper status to be able generate more income for themselves by charging content providers for faster access to your Internet connection. If you speed up some, it goes without saying that you must slow down others. Net Neutrality is important to ensure that small independent sites like Clarksville Online can continue to compete and provide an important alternative voice to corporate media. Clarksville, TN will not be at the mercy of these corporations with alternatives available like CDE’s Fiber to the Home service which is coming soon. PBS‘s program NOW did a show on this important subject. Lets take a look. «Read the rest of this article» Sections: Technology | No Comments
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