Obama: Firmly Committed to Net Neutrality President Obama has done it again – re-affirming his unyielding commitment to an open Internet. It happened this time during an announcement on Friday of a new initiative to beef up the nation's defenses against cyber-attacks. The Web-savvy...

Expanding the Internet with Community Media One of the best things about the broadband portion of the American Reinvestment and Recovery Act is that it recognizes the importance of community media for expanding the Internet. The concern now is that if you focus too much on the medium itself, you...

Internet Heroes and Villains If the history of Internet policy were a movie, it would feature the public tied to the tracks before an onrushing train of corporate lobbyists. The villain, however, is not just the powerful phone and cable companies these lobbyists represent, but...

Hating the Internet for Hurting Profits A lot of big companies have gotten big headaches dealing with the implications of a wired world. Instead of embracing change and developing new business plans to win profits from online users, many see the net as the enemy or something that must be...

Michael Copps on Protecting the Media and Democracy Acting FCC Chairman Michael Copps spoke this morning at Free Press' Changing Media Summit, and he delivered a rousing reminder of how central the media are to sustaining a democracy, and how hard we need to continue to work to protect it. After musing...