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Lawrence Lessig: The Future of the Open Internet in America

by Skidmark Bob
Audio of Lawrence Lessig presentation to the FCC on the future of the open Internet in America. "Preserve what has worked in driving this economy -- and what has worked is a neutral network."
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Lawrence Lessig (born June 3, 1961) is an American academic. He is a professor of law at Stanford Law School and founder of its Center for Internet and Society. Lessig founded Creative Commons and is a board member of the Electronic Frontier Foundation and of the Software Freedom Law Center. He is best known as a proponent of reduced legal restrictions on copyright, trademark and radio frequency spectrum, particularly in technology applications.
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by halationeffect
see
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BB2Xnu9xQVU

for Hodgeman's explanation.

Yes, the intenet is a series of tubes (well, nodes) originally used to allow military computers to communicate with one another. . . just as the first use of metals was in weapons production.

The model for widespread use is what you see now in China or within the sterile, sanitized, filtered and monitored in-house corporate internet zones.

See here for presidential candidates in favor of net neutrality.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BB2Xnu9xQVU

Recall, the Clintons signed the 1996 Telecom act that paved the way for the current near-total consolidation of corporate media... and so did all the Republicans.

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