Free Press Board member calls for FCC to take control of net without congress vote

8. October 2009 by admin.

 Tim Wu, board member of Free Press, calls for the FCC to change the rules with or without congress’ consent:

 

Tim Wu, chair of the board, is a professor of law at Columbia University, where he specializes in telecommunications law, copyright and international trade. He is the co-author of Who Controls the Internet? (Oxford U. Press, 2006) and a regular contributor to Slate magazine. He previously worked at Riverstone Networks in Silicon Valley and was a law clerk for Judge Richard Posner and Justice Stephen Breyer. He graduated from McGill University (B.Sc) and Harvard Law School, and has taught at the University of Virginia, the University of Chicago, and Stanford Law School. Wu is on the advisory board of Public Knowledge and is a term member of the Council on Foreign Relations.

 

 

http://www.openleft.com/showDiary.do?diaryId=3636

Here is an interview with Tim Wu, in open left, an organization with direct ties to SEIU.

Let’s start with politics.  Is it surprising to you that net neutrality has become a political issue in the last few years, even playing a role in the technology platform put out by candidates?  Has this ever happened before?

Yes - issues just like net neutrality have become major political issues at other crucial times in U.S. history.  It happens when private power has reached intolerable levels, and particularly when private entities control new technologies that are of growing importance to the whole country.  Perhaps the best single example comes from the turn of the century, when Theodore Roosevelt made railroad discrimination a major political issue.  Like the internet today, the railroad was new technology and the (literal) engine of commerce - and the problems of discriminatory carriage were too serious to ignore

As for what the dream FCC would do.  There are, I’d say, three giant challenges that the FCC will face over the next several years, and the prosperity and cultural health of the country may depend on it.

1. Fix wireless.   There are strange things going on in American wireless markets; things that are holding back the U.S. from leadership in this market.  The FCC needs to see what it can do to open these markets and see what happens.  There will be immense resistance, but it isn’t the job of government to do easy things.

2. Fix Broadband.  Everyone, expect the kind of people who don’t believe that cigarettes cause cancer, realizes that the U.S. could do more to make sure the country leads the world in fiber deployment to American homes and businesses. It would take vision to get everyone together and say, we need to be the leading fiber nation in the world, so how do we get there?

3.  Protect the internet.  The FCC needs to maintain a vigilance to prevent gross violations of net neutrality to maintain the vibrancy on this and other networks.  I think over the last few years there’s been agreement that the country is better off with a free and open network; net neutrality infringements are becoming more and more a third-rail treated like a violation of free speech.   But in the end it is the FCC that needs to make sure that things stay that way – whether or not Congress passes new legislation.

 

 

free press & interent czar are one and the same board members revealed- ties to pro-iran regime group http://bit.ly/4uIeua  #tcot #tlot #sgp

 

Free Press and the interet Czar- susan crawford’s speech before the Free Press Summit echoed the Marxist organization’s own themes.  Two of their board members have direct Marxist connections, and one has ties to a pro-Supreme Leader Iranian propaganda group, American-Iranian org

Freedom News- Obama Editorial- Free Press Summit reveals Internet Czar ties- #free #press #summit

8. October 2009 by admin.

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free press & interent czar are one and the same board members revealed- ties to pro-iran regime group http://bit.ly/4uIeua  #tcot #tlot #sgp

 

Free Press and the interet Czar- susan crawford’s speech before the Free Press Summit echoed the Marxist organization’s own themes.  Two of their board members have direct Marxist connections, and one has ties to a pro-Supreme Leader Iranian propaganda group, American-Iranian org

 

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Here is alink to the summit video

 

#free #press #summit attended by susan crawford, internet czar http://bit.ly/7yv8X  #video #audio

 

Here is a link to the abbreviated audio version of the summit.  Note the focus on media consolidation, diversity, and govt subsidies of newspapers, as well as the reiteration of bandwidth redistribution under ubiquitous bandwidth principles.

 

internet czar hints at govt takeover of newspapers, broadband at marxist event- free press summit http://bit.ly/7yv8X #tcot #tlot plz RT

 

Free Press Summit- Susan Crawford- Internet Czar- 2 minutes audio of her speech to Marxist group http://bit.ly/3×7a8y

 

Obama News- Media Consolidation- internet czar echoes free press concerns over media consolidation http://bit.ly/Au6WG  #tcot #tlot #sgp

 

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here are the audio excerpts in one 2 minute video format:

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