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mediageek 2008-04-25: The Senate Commerce Committee Hears about Net Neutrality… Again

Hot on the heels of the FCC’s Stanford hearing on broadband network management practices, the Senate Commerce Committee had its own hearing on the issue, with FCC Chairman Kevin Martin in the spotlight to explain how the Commission will guarantee a free and open internet. We’ll listen to some of Martin’s comments, and the grilling he received from key Senators. We’ll also listen to an excerpt from Prof. Larry Lessig’s excellent presentation on net neutrality that he gave at the Stanford hearing.

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mediageek 2008-04-18: Highlights from FCC Stanford Hearing

On April 17 the FCC took another stab at holding a public hearing on broadband network management practices, aka Network Neutrality. This one was arguably more successful than the first Harvard one in Feb., if for no other reason than Comcast didn’t hire people to take seats away from interested members of the public. On this edition of the show we listen to some highlights from the expert testimony. We also hear a little bit of Tim Robbins’ speaking truth to the NAB.

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