前幾天在 Slashdot 上看到的， AT&T 的頭發信給全公司的員工，「建議」他們到美國政府網站 OpenInternet.gov 發表對於「 網路中立 」的意見。當然，是對 AT&T 有利的意見…：「 AT&T Suggests To 300K Employees To Lobby the FCC 」，而媒體也向 AT&T 證實了這件事情。 其實就是個商業團體操作的手法，不是第一次也不會是最後一次。會上新聞主要是因為 AT&T 有將近 30 萬員工，而且想操作的話題是「網路中立」這個熱門話題。 類似的行為在台灣也很常見，像是「 不樂之捐？ 5千端節獎金拿去賑災 鴻海員工忿忿不平 」之類的。 Slashdot 上的 comment 其實寫的很現實： Unions are a democracy. Business are a dictatorship. When a union tells its members, “You should do X,” you can work on changing t
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AT&T’s Senior Executive Vice President of Legislative Affairs James Cicconi e-mail bombed AT&T employees Monday asking them to express their “deep concern” for Net Neutrality on the FCC’s Net Neutrality website’s comment section . (Thanks to several Stop the Cap! readers, among them Dave, “Gaff”, “Bones”, “Prevent Caps” and James who sent news tips on this story. The delay in publication came from assembling a response you, as actual consumers, can fire back at the AT&T Propagand
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Vuze ’s CEO Gilles Bianrosa joined 26 other CEOs and execs from new media companies like Google, Amazon and Skype today to support the FCC’s upcoming net neutrality rules in an open letter to commission chairman Julius Genachowski . The letter reads in part: “We believe a process that results in common sense baseline rules is critical to ensuring that the Internet remains a key engine of economic growth, innovation, and global competitiveness. (…) Americas leadership in the technology spa
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Mark Lloyd is the associate general counsel and Chief Diversity Officer at the Federal Communications Commission. He was appointed to the newly created position by President Obama in early August. Before he was appointed a Czar, Lloyd was the vice president for strategic initiatives at the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights. His specialty is communications policy, and that policy he promotes can only be described as having a strange obsession with promoting a racial divide. There are few
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I’m one of the people old enough to remember far enough back in time to when the FCC was a body that actually protected the rights of citizens, and was not merely a tool of big business . During the late ’70s, when I was very young and had not much more to do than be an amateur radio operator, I remember the FCC policing the airwaves, keeping things in line, and removing those who would interrupt or disturb the natural flow of things. In those times, the FCC was a harsh but fair entity, that
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