The cable operator paid people off the street to pack an FCC hearing on its network discrimination practices, keeping critics and activists from attending or speaking at the hearing.

NetworkWorld interviews Stanford professor Nick McKeown about his groups vision for a smarter, more secure internet; too bad it won't have anything like network neutrality.

You should watch this video that compiles clips to make a case for networkneutrality. The most interesting part is how the Final Cut file is available for download.

Cool network neutrality stickers.

Our state media was nice enough to put Bill Moyers' special on network neutrality in full online. (via donturn)

Larry Lessig advocates network neutrality in this editorial.

A new technology enables users to test the relative neutrality of an ISP, opening the possibility of shaming telcos into operating neutral networks.

This article details some of the issues at stake for the telecom companies with the new round of regulation in Congress. I was not aware of the issues surrounding the Universal Service Fund.

Nice chronology of the online response to Alaska Senator Ted Steven's speech comparing the Internet to a "series of tubes." If they had only used that Ajax framework used in the JFK timeline, my life would be complete.

This has been posted everywhere, but if you haven't read it yet, you must. I don't fault senior-citizen senators for not being up on technology developments, but they are responsible for hiring staffers that understand the issues.

This article provides useful insights into the political strategies behind the telco's efforts to implement network discrimination.

The telco lobby is considering running ads using the threat of child predators to spread FUD about network neutrality. Too bad the Christian Coalition has come out in support of neutrality.

Proposed wording regarding network neutrality in the senate bill. I guess it's codifying the Senate's intention to look into net neutrality issues, rather than putting net neutrality into law.

The House Telecom Commitee resoundingly rejected maintaining network neutrality in a vote today. Democrats were as bad as Republicans at giving handouts to major telcos.

Blog post says that Kevin Martin has come out in favor of network discrimination, allowing AT&T and other to charge Google, Vonage, and others for traffic on their networks.

CIO Magazine has a .pdf map of what companies control various parts of the Internet backbone.

Ed Felten explains how the Net Discrimination scheme proposed by major ISPs might be implemented.