Colin Rhinesmith

On Monday, February 25 the Berkman Center for Internet & Society is hosting a one-day FCC Hearing on the future of broadband network management practices.

Panelists include a wide range of legal scholars, telecom executives and technical specialists including David L. Cohen, Executive Vice President of Comcast; Eric Klinker, Chief Technology Officer of BitTorrent; Marvin Ammori, General Counsel for Free Press; and Berkman Faculty Director Yochai Benkler.

The schedule for the day is online at the Berkman Center Events & Webcasts blog. Free Press has set-up a page with more information - including info on how the public can submit their own video-testimonies to the FCC during the event - at Save The Internet.com.

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The Hartford Courant published an op-ed with Kevin Howley (Media Studies professor at DePauw University and author of Community Media) yesterday titled, “Clocks Ticking on Net Neutrality“. I like his telephone analogy:

Think about it like this: When you make a phone call, the telephone company can’t keep you from talking to whomever you want, or prevent you from talking about whatever you like. Net neutrality applies the same operating principle to Internet communication.”

Read the rest of the article and help save the internet.

The Save The Internet blog’s got more on Howley’s article and about taking action on the FCC’s June 15 public comment deadline.

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