 FCC Net Neutrality Plan Gets Picked Apart from All Sides The FCC's Net Neutrality proposal has garnered support from labor unions, Web founders like Craig Newmark of Craig's List and some venture capitalists. And it's received cautious support from AT&T and Comcast. But in the days leading up the Dec. 21 FCC vote on the rules, officials are also hearing criticism on details of the proposal, which hasn't been made public. Cecilia Kang, Washington Post Net Neutrality Lobbying Target FCC Democrats Net Neutrality supporters have amped up their efforts to reach FCC Commissioners Mignon Clyburn and Michael Copps, both Democrats. Advocates are pushing hard for Clyburn and Copps to use their sway to persuade Genachowski to strengthen the proposed Net Neutrality rules. Sara Jerome, The Hill FCC Proposal Opens Door for Prioritization and Higher Fees A proposed Net Neutrality regulation at the FCC would allow broadband service providers to prioritize their own content and that of partners over that of competitors. The draft proposal also would allow broadband network operators to charge consumers based on how much data they use. Cecilia Kang, Washington Post Writers Guild of America East: Save the Internet The Writers Guild of America East launched "Save the Internet," a multifaceted campaign in support of Net Neutrality. The website allows users to send emails to all members of the FCC urging them to support Net Neutrality. David Cohen, WebNewser   Report Finds Half of Web Users 'Very Satisfied' with Broadband Service Roughly half of Internet users are very satisfied with their broadband service, according to a new report. The survey found that 51 percent of broadband users are "very satisfied" with their service overall and 42 percent are "somewhat satisfied." Eliza Krigman, National Journal Sen. Rockefeller and FCC Chairman Discuss Broadband Sen. Jay Rockefeller (D-W. Va.) joined the chairman of the FCC in Jackson County, W. Va. for a roundtable on broadband technology. Rockefeller brought Chairman Julius Genachowski to the state to discuss bringing high-speed Internet services to all of West Virginia. John Hingsbergen, West Virginia Public Broadcasting Another Comcast Internet Outage Hits Midwest Users Contrary to the jet stream that brought flurries to Manhattan, Comcast's latest Internet outage rolled west, stranding subscribers in Illinois, Indiana, Michigan and Minnesota for nearly five hours. William Fenton, PC Magazine AP Takes Annoyingly Narrow View of Muni-Fiber In a recent report, Dave Gram of the Associated Press takes a rather myopic look at municipal fiber operations. The article worked hard to portray municipal broadband as a dangerous endeavor supported mostly by fringe partisans, ignoring the fact that this isn't really a partisan issue. Karl Bode, Broadband Reports  Anti-WikiLeaks Lies and Propaganda Anyone listening to most media accounts would believe that WikiLeaks has indiscriminately published all 250,000 of the diplomatic cables it possesses. The reality is the exact opposite. Glenn Greenwald, Salon How Online Reading Habits Have Changed over 2010 One of the more subtle trends of 2010 has been the way that our reading habits have changed, due to a convergence of other Web trends. In the previous era of the Web, the so-called Web 2.0, RSS Readers and start pages were all the rage. Over 2010, though, more people used tools like Twitter, Facebook, Instapaper and TweetDeck, to track news. Richard MacManus, ReadWriteWeb |   White House to Continue Copyright Crackdown The Obama administration is ramping up its mission to shut down websites that illegally share copyrighted content, such as movies and music. White House intellectual property czar Victoria Espinel said that the Internet community should "expect more" pre-emptive action as the administration combats online copyright infringement. Politico Service Members Face New Threat: Identity Theft The government warns Americans to closely guard their Social Security numbers. But it has done a poor job of protecting those same numbers for millions of people: the nation's soldiers, sailors, airmen and Marines. New York Times MPAA to Universities: Curb Piracy or Lose Federal Funding The Motion Picture Association of America has decided to mimic the efforts of its music industry counterpart and put pressure on universities to curb student piracy. The organization notified its partners this week that it would begin sending out letters to college and university presidents in the US "calling their attention" to the anti-infringement provisions of the Higher Education Opportunity Act of 2008. Ars Technica Still Counting on the Power of Television TV or not TV? On Madison Avenue next year, leading forecasters say, that is not likely to be the question. A major reason those forecasters are predicting that the advertising industry will recover faster from the recession than they had expected is the continued, strong demand among marketers for commercial time on television. New York Times U.S. Arrests Online Seller Who Scared Customers Federal law enforcement agents arrested a Brooklyn Internet merchant who mistreated customers because he thought their online complaints raised the profile of his business in Google searches. New York Times Google to Release New Smartphone, New Android Software Nearly a year after Google unveiled its first branded smartphone in an unsuccessful bid to transform how consumers bought phones, the company unveiled its successor. The "Nexus S" won't change how people buy a phone, but it could someday alter the way people buy almost anything else -- by using their smartphone as a credit card. San Jose Mercury News Google Opens Doors to E-Bookstore After years of planning and months of delays, the search giant Google started its e-book venture on, creating a potentially robust competitor in the digital book market to Amazon, Barnes & Noble and Apple. New York Times Merger of Bookstore Giants Is Pushed A major shareholder of Borders proposed that the bookseller acquire much bigger rival Barnes and Noble, in a gamble to unite the two giant but struggling retailers at a time of major tumult in the book industry. Wall Street Journal 'Digital Death' Campaign Raises $1M; Celebs Allowed Back on Twitter The organizers of Alicia Keys' "Keep a Child Alive" announced that the campaign had reached the one millions mark in donations -- meaning Ryan Seacrest, Kim Kardashian and the rest of those who vowed to stay off Twitter and Facebook until their goal are free to tweet and status update at their normal, annoying levels. The Wrap   |
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