Post Tech Archive: Net Neutrality

Obama's deputy technology officer McLaughlin: Free speech is net-neutrality foreign policy

When President Obama told university students in Shanghai last week that he’s a “big supporter of non-censorship,” it took 27 minutes for one major Chinese portal to delete that part of his speech. After two-and-a-half hours, almost all portals in...

Apple says no VoIP apps for iPhone yet

More than one month ago, AT&T announced it would run competing Internet voice applications for the iPhone on its network. The phone giant was showered with kudos from federal regulators and consumer groups. The announcement was seen as a milestone...

Worth reading: Murdoch says no content to Google, VoIP still not available on 3G iPhone

News Corp. chairman Rupert Murdoch tells Austria's Sky News that he plans to withhold content from Google searches. He cited the Wall Street Journal as an example of a source where only the first paragraph comes up on search engines...

Microsoft buster Gary Reback goes after Google on books

Gary Reback, a leading antitrust attorney from Silicon Valley who went after Microsoft in the late 1990s, has a new target in sight: Google. He’s working to prevent a deal between Google and publishers and authors over the rights to...

Google boosts spending on lobbying

Google spent more than $1 million on lobbying in Washington in the third quarter, according to a report by The Associated Press. That's a 50 percent increase from the July-September period last year, according to a recent disclosure statement, the...

The Underestimated Mignon Clyburn

Before Mignon Clyburn joined the Federal Communications Commission last July, she hadn’t spent more than two weeks in a row outside of her native South Carolina. But that didn't stop some in Washington from thinking they had her figured out....

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Potential Comcast bid for NBC raises regulatory questions, Cecilia Kang , November 3, 2009

Biggest Net Neutrality boosters question FCC proposal, Cecilia Kang , November 2, 2009

One illustrated view of world without net neutrality rules, Cecilia Kang , October 28, 2009