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Ed Markey (D-MA) and Anna Eshoo (D-CA) last week introduced HR 3458, The Internet Freedom Preservation Act of 2009 (PDF). This bill is muc...

The FCC rule on "fleeting expletives," permitting massive fines even for individual occurrences of the "seven words you can&#...

There's a telecom panel at the Netroots Nation conference today on the subject of "Big Telecom: An Emerging Threat to Our Democracy...

The Parents Television Council, the organization that is responsible for generating over 99.8% of all indecency complaints to the FCC , has ...

FCC Kevin Martin has responded to the Second Circuit Court of Appeals' decision on "fleeting expletives," which not only went...

The Arizona Republic has just caught on to the fact that there's a lot of mortgage fraud going on in Phoenix : A wave of mortgage fraud...

At Slate, Jack Shafer argues for the abolition of the FCC , drawing heavily from Peter Huber's book, Law and Disorder in Cyberspace . F...

Talking Points Memo has been collecting examples of information (website content, reports, studies, etc.) that the Bush administration has s...

Looks like the FCC had a hard day before the U.S. Court of Appeals defending its arbitrary indecency standards , and Susan Crawford points o...

The Center for Public Integrity has set up a "Media Tracker" based on FCC data by zip code which allows you to see how well-conn...

I received an email from the ACLU yesterday, informing me that they've jumped in on the net neutrality debate. Unfortunately, they badl...

Paul Kouroupas has written an interesting series of posts about the state of telecommunications regulation around the world. He postulates ...

In an attempt to offer something constructive, here's a version of network neutrality--let's call it Lippard Network Neutrality--tha...

The Information Technology Association of America (ITAA) has issued a report on “Security Implications of Applying the Communications Assist...

The original claim of a Cox "blacklist" originated from a statement by Tom Foremski at Silicon Valley Watcher. Foremski originall...

Bush has signed the legislation raising fines on broadcast "indecency." Adam Thierer gives the scorecard for First Amendment pro...

The New Republic 's editors have come out in favor of net neutrality . As is all-too-common, their reasoning is based, at least in part...

The FCC levied a record-breaking $3.3 million fine against 103 CBS affiliates for airing a repeat episode of "Without a Trace" on...

At the Skeptics Society conference on "The Environmental Wars," Jonathan Adler gave a talk on "Fables of Federal Environment...

This post serves as an index to the net neutrality posts on The Lippard Blog. I'll update this post with any future posts on the subjec...