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06/29/2005 08:02 PM
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Supreme Court´s Brand X Decision Endangers the Principle of Net Neutrality

Court Strikes a Blow Against Freedom Online

Battle Now Goes to Congress and the American Public



Note: CDD was one of the petitioners in this case, along with Consumers Union and the Consumer Federation of America. The Media Access Project served as legal counsel for CDD.

June 27, 2005

Washington, DC: Today´s decision by the Supreme Court to overturn the Ninth Circuit Court´s classification of cable modems as a "telecommunications service" (and thus subject to the open access regulations that have long governed the dial-up Internet) poses a grave threat to the future of the Internet.

By upholding the FCC´s March 2002 Declaratory Ruling that classified cable Internet as an unregulated "information service," the Supreme Court has paved the way for a privatized, tightly controlled broadband environment that will bear little resemblance to the open, diverse, and competitive Internet of the past.

As the ACLU warned in its Brand X brief to the Supreme Court, "…cable companies can leverage ownership of the physical infrastructure into control of citizens’ access to and use of the Internet. This threatens free speech and privacy. A cable company that has complete control over its customers’ access to the Internet could censor their ability to speak, block their access to disfavored information services, monitor their online activity, and subtly manipulate the information sources they rely on."

The decision now leaves the vast majority of broadband households in the US at the mercy of just two companies--the local cable monopoly or one of four remaining "Baby Bells"--for their connections to what the courts once described as "… the most participatory form of mass speech yet developed…." They will operate these networks as the same top-down monopolies that have dominated both the cable and local telephone business.

“Today the Court struck a blow against freedom online," said Jeff Chester, CDD’s executive director. “The Internet they have bestowed promotes the interest of a few big media companies against the best interests of the public--in the U.S. and globally. It’s time that Congress heard from Americans that Big Media shouldn’t be allowed to control the future of the Internet.”

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12/08/2005 10:14 AM
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Re: the genie´s going back in the bottle...
I thought this was about Barbara Eden. I used to whack it to her as a kid
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12/08/2005 10:14 AM
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Re: the genie´s going back in the bottle...
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