FreedomTalks

FreedomWorks Chairman Dick Armey discusses the future of the internet tax moratorium with Charles Cooper and Declan McCullagh of CNET News.com.
You can listen to the podcast here.

According to John Edwards, net neutrality allows democracy to flourish.

This is a pretty informative video on the future of the net. A good source of info for those who might want to push “net neutrality” on us.

The House of Representatives is holding one of its “Digital Future of America” hearings tomorrow at 9:30am. Witnesses include Mark Cuban (Dallas Mavericks owner and HDNet owner), Tom Rogers (president of TiVo) and Phil Rosenthal (creator of “Everybody Loves Raymond”, representing SAG and the Writers Guild.)
It will be interesting to see how much meddling [...]

Our friends at the Texas Public Policy Foundation has a new podcast out on telecommunications taxes in Texas.
Listen by clicking here!

State Representative Susan Lynn has a great post up on her blog.
Here it is.
Of all the issues large and small one matter seems to be a deal breaker in the question of whether we will have competition among television service providers. Build-out, or forcing a company to build-out service to unprofitable areas, is a point [...]

In letters addressed to the Massachusetts state legislature, FreedomWorks and Dick Armey urged support for the Massachusetts Cable Choice and Competition Act introduced by State Senator Steve Panagiotakos and State Representative Jim Vallee. As Armey noted, “Telephone and power companies stand ready to infuse billions of dollars into Massachusetts’ economy and telecommunications infrastructure. When [...]

Looks like yet another state is trying to set price controls on internet content, in the form of “net neutrality.” For what this policy does to the net, it should be called “net brutality.”
Here is the story from the Left-wing blogosphere.
Assemblyman Mark Leno (D-San Francisco) announced today he will introduce “Net Neutrality” legislation that will [...]

Reuters reported today,
“The European Commission warned Microsoft on Thursday it faced further fines in its antitrust case for seeking unreasonable prices from software makers for interoperability information.
The latest formal charges could lead to new fines against the U.S. software giant, the Commission said in a statement.”
If Microsoft does not reply to the commission’s statement of [...]

The Maryland Attorney General just issued an opinion saying that “net neutrality” legislation would be preempted by a federal law on the issue. The AG stated, “the general conflict with the stated policies of Congress and of the FCC would also likely to lead to a decision by the FCC to preempt any attempt on [...]