[governance] Free Web Plan Being Pushed by FCC Head

[Sivasubramanian Muthusamy]

Hello All,

The new US Administration is likely to have the an FCC that might think at
least a bit differently about censorship, tiered Internet and on other
related central issues of concerns to the Internet users.

The Obama FCC transition team is led by Susan Crawford of One Web Day
<http://www.onewebday.org>and Kevin Warbach of the Supernova group and there
is nothing to indicate that these two leaders would bring in a new team that
is insensitive to users.

http://www.circleid.com/posts/susan_crawford_kevin_werbach_obama_fcc_review_team_leads/

We don't have to be very concerned about the plan proposed by the outgoing
FCC chief especially after reading the news item by Rauf Bendrath. These are
changing times and lets wait and watch...

Sivasubramanian Muthusamy
India.



On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 6:37 PM, Ralf Bendrath
<bendrath at zedat.fu-berlin.de>wrote:

> Milton L Mueller schrieb:
> > And PLEASE note that this is a CENSORED internet, which is precisely
> > what some of us fear will be the price of government-provided "internet
> > for all."
>
> >> Outgoing Federal Communications Commission Chairman Kevin Martin is
> >> pushing for action in December on a plan to offer free, pornography-free
> >> wireless Internet service to all Americans, despite objections from the
> >> wireless industry and some consumer groups.
>
> The plan seems to be dead, at least for the moment:
>
> <http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122911167960602397.html>
>
> DECEMBER 12, 2008, 11:48 P.M. ET
>
> FCC Head Cancels Vote on Free Internet Plan
>
> By FAWN JOHNSON
>
> WASHINGTON -- Federal Communications Commission Chairman Kevin Martin on
> Friday evening canceled next week's meeting at which the commission was
> scheduled to vote on a free Internet plan, after receiving a letter from
> key U.S. lawmakers asking him to hold off.
>
> Sen. John Rockefeller, (D-W.Va.), and Rep. Henry Waxman, (D-Calif.), who
> will chair the Senate and House committees overseeing the FCC next year,
> earlier Friday sent a letter to Mr. Martin asking him to cease actions on
> controversial policy proposals.
>
> (...)
>
> "We received the letter from Senator Rockefeller and Congressman Waxman
> today and spoke with other offices," said FCC Spokesman Robert Kenny. "In
> light of the letter, it does not appear that there is consensus to move
> forward and the agenda meeting has been canceled."
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