That’s the title of a story yesterday. So you might ask: Well, isn’t the Federal Communications Commission the cop on the beat? The answer may surprise you: Because of the tsunami of deregulation carried out over the last few years, the FCC’s power to do anything about abuses of consumer privacy in the wireless world [...]

The Human Rights Council of the UN has adopted a resolution supporting the equivalency of human rights online and offline – “in particular, freedom of expression, which is applicable regardless of frontiers and through any media of one’s choice.” The Council is calling on all states to promote and facilitate access to the Internet. Why [...]

Brian Stelter’s article today, “Sweeping Effects as Broadband Moves To Meters,” illuminates a part of the local cable monopoly story for high-speed Internet access and the consequences of this power for America’s future. There is an epic narrative here that is worth a full-length action movie. Or two. (Who would play Brian Stelter? Perhaps this [...]

Today’s media self-examination section of the Times (always on Mondays) had two stories that tie neatly though invisibly together. First, David Carr glumly examined Huffington, the new online (or, more accurately, on-iPad) magazine. “Disruption makes no allowance for sentiment,” he said, marking his moment of personal recognition that no matter what he thinks “about appropriate [...]

This week, Verizon announced its “Share Everything” plans and the WSJ announced that DOJ would be looking into the cable distributors’ usage caps. Meanwhile, the White House announced its US-Ignite program. All of these things are deeply related. The first, the Verizon announcement, signals that both Verizon and AT&T (likely to follow suit soon) are [...]