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"Connecting our entire nation via high-speed broadband will bring remarkable economic, social, cultural, personal, and other benefits. Robust economic development, job creation, improved health care at lower costs, enhanced educational opportunities, increased homeland security and public safety, reduced energy consumption and pollution, a reinvigorated democracy and more open government – these are just a few of the benefits that will flow from our nation linking its entire population to the Internet at broadband speed. "

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"Cable giant Comcast Corp. has hired Federal Communications Commissioner Meredith Attwell Baker as senior vice president of government affairs for its NBCUniversal unit.

Baker, who will leave the FCC when her term expires in June, is the latest hire for Comcast, which has been beefing up its already formidable lobbying team since taking over NBCUniversal. Earlier this year, Comcast wooed National Cable & Telecommunications Assn. President Kyle McSlarrow away from the association to be president of Comcast/NBCUniversal Washington."

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"FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski took the stage at the Computer History Museum in San Jose, CA for a special Commonwealth Club event moderated by Adam Lashinsky, Senior Editor at Large of Fortune."

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"Net neutrality proponents make the case for the freedom of the Internet. That freedom has allowed startups such as Google, Facebook, Myspace and Groupon to flourish, since there have been no Internet access barriers to entry. Overall, the proponents fear that without Net neutrality, the larger ISPs will control which companies succeed or fail as the Internet continues to evolve."

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"Representative Greg Walden, chair of the House Energy and Commerce Subcomittee on Communications and Technology, talked about the subcommittee's 15-8 resolution of disapproval of the Federal Communications Commission's rules on net neutrality, a policy that requires Internet providers to allow content providers equal access to networks. He also discussed issues related to the House Republicans' agenda for the 112th Congress."

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"Independent journalist John Nichols, with The Nation magazine, who co-authored with Robert McChesney the book "The Death and Life of American Journalism: The Media Revolution that will Begin the World Again," spoke at a Between The Lines public forum in New Haven, CT where he argues that journalism should be seen as a public good, and that the federal government should intervene to assist the ailing newspaper industry - since a free press and an informed electorate are among the most important elements in a well-functioning democracy."  read more »

"Senate Democrats on Wednesday voiced their opposition to a House amendment that would stop funding for the Federal Communications Commission's net neutrality rules.

Sen. John Kerry of Massachusetts joined with Sens. Ron Wyden of Oregon, Maria Cantwell of Washington, and Al Franken of Minnesota to write a letter to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and Minority Leader Mitch McConnell that opposed using the appropriations process or the Congressional Review Act to keep the FCC from implementing its network neutrality rules."

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"The “open Internet” is the Internet as we know it. It’s “open” because it uses free, publicly available standards that anyone can access and build to, and because it treats all traffic that flows across the network in roughly the same way. This means an innovator in a garage or a student in a dorm room can easily invent and launch a new online service, and that content from a small business or a blogger can reach customers and audiences as easily as content from a multinational corporation or a major newspaper.  read more »