The Snooper Report (Free subscription) | 28/10/2009
... broke the story of how United Church of Christ officials met with kindred spirit/FCC Commissioner Michael Copps earlier this month before launching a nationwide campaign to pressure the FCC to crack down on cable TV and talk radio figures. [...] Yeah. Socialized everything is the way to go. NOT! Maybe the Obama's bootlicking NEA chairman is the key? Must be one of those Obama White...
Thoughts Of A Conservative Christian (Free subscription) | 29/10/2009
... broke the story of how United Church of Christ officials met with kindred spirit/FCC Commissioner Michael Copps earlier this month before launching a nationwide campaign to pressure the FCC to crack down on cable TV and talk radio figures. The motto of the “So We Might See” anti-”hate speech” campaign is: “Without media justice, there will be no social justice!” The same Marx-loving...
MaldivianDigital® :: Forum (Free subscription) | 28/10/2009
... Graduate School of Journalism study's call for a similar reassessment of of the media marketplace. Michael Copps, as acting chairman, teed up an inquiry into the state of journalism that has yet to be launched. Waldman will join the commission as a senior advisor to the chairman and a member of the Office of Strategic Planning. According to the FCC, his charter is to "work with the...
Open Left (Free subscription) | 22/10/2009
... innovators, political leaders and the public. FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski and Commissioners Michael Copps and Mignon Clyburn voted in favor of the rulemaking; Commissioners Meredith Attwell Baker and Robert McDowell gave partial support to the proposal. The proposed rules would codify the four open Internet principles that now guide the FCC's oversight and enforcement of communications...
Government Bytes (Free subscription) | 20/10/2009
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) will vote Thursday on a proposal that would impose federal government regulations on network managers. The so-called “net neutrality” rules would add to existing guidelines adopted in 2005 on Internet network operations. While the proposal is expected to pass with full support from FCC Commissioner Michael Copps and the Obama administration,...
MaldivianDigital® :: Forum (Free subscription) | 10/10/2009
... has made it her mission to close the adoption gap presided over the hearing, joined by Democrat Michael Copps. According to Watson, while 63% of American homes have adopted broadband, that figure is only 42% for South Carolina. His advice: Government should help by integrating broadband into the fabric of the community. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services could make...
The Technology Liberation Front (Free subscription) | 05/10/2009
... upheld the FCC’s decision not to regulate broadband as a telecommunications service, Commissioner Michael Copps said “the Internet may be dying,” glumly predicting that if the Commission continued its free-market policies, “ we will look back, shake our heads and wonder whatever happened to that open, dynamic and liberating Internet that once we knew.” Not to be outdone, in 2006,...
New Technology TV (Free subscription) | 30/09/2009
When the Internet became public domain, no one could have predicted the growth and popularity it gained. Today, although almost everyone uses the Internet for everything from chatting to online banking, people do not often stop to think about the rules set in place to govern the use and free enterprise that can be found online. Internet regulation was introduced in 2004 by Chairman Michael...
