The Media Fix: End of Net Neutrality

Jay Owen January 27, 2014Global Citizen, Wealth of Networks

Free Press

Read these three things.

The Information Counter-Revolution

Timothy Karr, Free Press

Watchdog Report: NSA Program Is Illegal and Should End

Charlie Savage, New York Times

Make ISPs into ‘Common Carriers,’ Says Former FCC Commissioner

Jon Brodkin, Ars Technica

Want a little more?

Internet Freedom

End of Net Neutrality

Colbert Report

Sleepwalking into Censorship: How Internet Freedom Is Under Threat

Ian Maleney, The Quietus

The Net Neutrality Solution

Timothy Karr, Free Press

A User-Friendly Explanation of Verizon v. FCC and Its Impact on Latinos

Jessica González, Free Press

To Plead Our Own Cause

Steven Renderos, BK Nation

Make Broadband a Common Carrier

USA Today

Netflix Says It’ll Be Fine Without Net Neutrality Rules — But What About the Next Netflix?

Mike Masnick, TechDirt

Canada Shows How Net Neutrality Dies With a Whimper, Not a Bang

Karl Bode, Broadband Reports

Why Canadians Should Care About the (Near) Death of the Open Internet in the U.S.

Noushin Khushrushahi, Rabble.ca

Surveillance

Obama’s NSA Speech Has Little Impact on Skeptical Public

Pew Research Center

Obama NSA Speech Lost in Translation

Edward-Isaac Dovere, Politico

Privacy Board Says NSA Phone Spying Is Illegal

Amy Kroin, Free Press

Edward Snowden Responds to Phone-Spying Investigation, Lays Out Hopes for Reforms

Adi Robertson, The Verge

Verizon Publishes First Transparency Report on Data Requests

Brian X. Chen, New York Times

The Day We Fight Back

Amy Kroin, Free Press

Future of the Internet

Why It’s Time for the U.S. to Get Serious About Its Broadband Problem

Blair Levin, GigaOM

Why Do D.C. Residents Pay the Highest Internet Costs in the Country?

Matt Cohen, DCist

Reining in the Cost of Connectivity

Nick Russo, Patrick Lucey, Danielle Kehl and Hibah Hussain, New America Foundation

Screw Comcast and CenturyLink

David Goldstein, The Stranger

Pope Francis Says the Internet Is a ‘Gift from God’

Amar Toor, The Verge

Journalism and Beyond

Wheeler Putting Brakes on SSAs

Doug Halonen, TVNewsCheck

Journalism Shafted in NSA Speech

Kira Goldenberg, Columbia Journalism Review

Court OKs Subpoena for Nola.com Commenters’ Identities

Kristen Hare, Poynter

Journalists ‘Manhandled’ by Chinese Police at Trial

Catherine Taibi, Huffington Post

In Other News

We Fight Today for a Better Tomorrow

S. Derek Turner, Free Press

Ominous Text Message Sent to Protesters in Kiev Sends Chills Around the Internet

Heather Murphy, New York Times

SCOTUS to Take Cases on Police Searches of Mobile Phones

Blake Neff, The Hill

Weighing the Need for a Landline in a Cellphone World

Tara Siegel Bernard, New York Times

Cable TV’s Darth Vader Is Back to Reclaim His Empire

Ben Popper, The Verge