This is the last time you’ll hear about net neutrality, or anything else for that matter, from RoadMAP this year. That’s because RoadMAP is taking a break until January 3. Happy holidays!
Even if you are sick about the FCC’s net neutrality decision (as RoadMAP is) and sick of reading about it (ditto), this [...]

This doesn’t need a lot of editorial comment, other than to point out that it is even worse when it comes to African Americans and Latinos.
The Men And NO Women Of Web 2.0
In one memorable episode of the famous old short films “The Little Rascals,” after not getting invited to a party, the Our Gang [...]

By Helen Kennedy, New York Daily News

The FCC Tuesday enacted new rules that allow internet providers to charge more for broadband-hogging services like Netflix – but restricts them from picking and choosing which sites customers can access.
Some liberal critics say the new rules could create a tiered system where the rich get [...]

Read WashingtonPost.com’s live chat with Matt Wood, MAP’s Associate Director, as he analyzes today’s net neutrality ruling: http://live.washingtonpost.com/fcc-rules-on-internet-access-12-21-10.html?hpid=topnews

By Cecilia Kang, Washington Post
The Federal Communications Commission voted Tuesday to approve its first ever Internet access regulation, which ensures unimpeded access to any legal Web content for home Internet users.
The same provisions do not apply as strongly to cellphone users because the agency voted to keep wireless networks generally free of rules preventing the [...]

By Michelle Castillo, Time Magazine
In the first act of US Internet access regulation, the Federal Communications Commission voted 3-2 to pass the first net neutrality laws. The measure will make sure that home internet users will be able to access any legal Web material, with some regulations set in place to protect people browsing the [...]

By Brian Stelter, New York Times
The Federal Communications Commission on Tuesday approved a new and still-unpublished set of rules that are intended to preserve open access to the Internet.
There was disagreement Tuesday about whether the F.C.C. had the legal authority to implement the network neutrality rules, and that authority is certain to face legal challenges [...]

Rules Foreshadow Years of Regulatory Confusion
WASHINGTON — The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) today voted to approve Chairman Julius Genachowski’s proposal on open Internet rules.
Andrew Jay Schwartzman, Senior Vice President and Policy Director of Media Access Project, issued the following statement in response to the vote:
“There is a reason that so many giant phone and cable [...]

By Cecilia Kang, Washington Post
Federal regulators are poised to enact controversial new rules affecting Internet access, marking the government’s strongest move yet to ensure that Facebook updates, Google searches and Skype calls reach consumers’ homes unimpeded.
Under the regulations, companies that carry the Internet into American homes would not be allowed to block Web sites [...]

By the time you open this email, the FCC will probably have voted to adopt what RoadMAP thinks is a watered-down, loophole ridden version of network neutrality that will please the big phone and cable companies, and leave MAP very unhappy. Today’s item is ostensibly about network neutrality, but that isn’t why RoadMAP is [...]