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You are hereFreedom of SpeechGooglegate?Submitted by Scott Cleland on Tue, 2007-10-16 13:43Moveon.org and Google appear to be to back-pedaling from their conspiracy of last week to block the political free speech of a U.S. Senator up for reelection. Moveon.org's Google coverup?Submitted by Scott Cleland on Mon, 2007-10-15 19:12Art Brodsky's of Public Knowledge recently posted his long defense of Moveon.org and Google for their blocking the free speech of U.S. Senator Susan Collins.
What appears to be missing from this sleight-of-hand mea culpa, is Google/Moveon.org or both of them:
I doubt a congressional panel, the press or the blogosphere will drop this issue just because one of Google's Poodles organizations, Public Knowledge, posted a preemptive defense on the Huffington Post to try and frame this issue before their "progressive" base got a whif of their week-old anti-free speech droppings. Mr. Brodsky also claims that Google and Moveon.org have never limited free speech before. Let's see how principled Google's Open Internet Coalition is on protecting free speechSubmitted by Scott Cleland on Mon, 2007-10-15 11:06How timely for the Google-backed Open Internet Coalition to be writing Congress asking for Congressional hearings on allegations of censorship of free speech on the Internet. Google bans Senator Collin's anti-Moveon.org ads -- Google's "Free Speech" double standardSubmitted by Scott Cleland on Thu, 2007-10-11 12:44Robert Cox, the Founder and President of the Media Bloggers Association, a non-partisan professional standards group, reports that Google has blocked the running of U.S. Senator Susan Collins' anti-Moveon.org ads on Google.
Great new op ed on Google-DoubleClick merger implications in San Fran ChronicleSubmitted by Scott Cleland on Thu, 2007-10-04 12:24Kudos to Professor Joseph Turow on his spot on editorial "Don't give Google double the power" about the very troubling implications of the Google-DoubleClick merger.
The outrageous hypocrisy behind Net Neutality support of Free SpeechSubmitted by Scott Cleland on Wed, 2007-10-03 13:10Someone needs to call the SaveTheInternet/FreePress/net neutrality crowd on their outrageous hypocrisy in politically claiming that being for "net neutrality" is being for more "free speech" protections. When the SaveTheInternet organization and their net neutrality allies were offered very specific legislative language that would explicitly protect "free speech'' on the Internet -- they actively blocked it from passage in the Senate Commerce Committee in August of 2006 and from it passing into law last Congress. The legislative text below was in the HR5252 Amendment proposed by then Chairman Stevens in the telecom reform bill in June of 2006.
I am a panelist with Tim Wu at Future of Music Conference 9-17Submitted by Scott Cleland on Fri, 2007-09-14 18:15I am on a Broadband Policy panel on Monday at 4:45 at the Future of Music Summit with a couple of the lead folks who champion net neutrality: Professor Tim Wu, who coined the term, and Ben Scott, of Free Press who has slickly popularized it in close coordination with Moveon.org.
Leveling the Playing Field: how does broadband policy affect musicians? Congress and the FCC are currently working a series of initiatives designed to revise the telecommunications regulatory framework, with everything from spectrum reform, to broadband deployment, to network neutrality on the table. How will proposed revisions impact musicians, citizens and technologists? How does broadband policy intersect with concerns about protecting intellectual property? What would a pro-musician Telecom Act look like?
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