As Blair Levin said upon exiting the FCC, people tend to see what they expect to see. Reaction to the Verizon/Google announcement reinforces his point.

The fact is that people have always been free to create art without a “corporate middleman”, question the media and do their own reporting, organize and protest, make their content free and pursue unconventional business models.

This is not new. Pointing out that people can also do this on the Internet does not mean The Internet Has Changed Everything. It just means people can continue doing these things in a different medium.

The Internet is not a magical device that makes everything free, copyright is not simply a legal mechanism to make creators get out of bed, creative output is not an undifferentiated mass of content and there are many more variables than just piracy that affect content production.

Chairman Genachowski gets the cold shoulder?

A Broadband Internet Technical Advisory Group could be a substantial solution to the net neutrality problems. At least, that is what some net neutrality supporters have argued in the past.

Declan McCullagh really gets to the heart of where the net neutrality battle stands right now.
The last time there was a major rewrite of telecommunications laws, it took something like five years for Congress’ internal mechanisms to spit out the Telecommunications Act of 1996. A push for national cable franchising legislation went on for years but died without a vote.
Which leaves pro-Net neutrality groups in an uncomfortable quandary. If they can’t prod the FCC to grease the rails and slide some kind of regulation through soon, even if the legal …

Chairman Genachowski has said only 6 sections of the Title II regulations will be applied to broadband and this would give “confidence and certainty that this renunciation of regulatory overreach will not unravel…”
Yesterday, the FCC reached just a little further and 6 sections became 7…
“According to sources, the Federal Communications Commission will add a seventh section to the Title II regulations it plans to apply to broadband transmission, one that requires it to report to Congress about possible barriers to minorities and women.”
As MMTC president David Honig said, “the decision …

Free Press has assured us that net neutrality couldn’t possibly have a negative impact on investment, so this is clearly just a coincidence.

In response to the FCC’s Notice of Proposed Rulemaking on Preserving the Open Internet, Digital Society would ask the FCC consider the impact its rules may have on the information economy.

In many ways, the mobile broadband market may be showing the wired broadband market the path forward towards a digital economy that actually works on multiple levels – both the commons and the market.