[Seattle-editorial] FEATURE PROPOSAL: Digital Democracy

[Jason Reep]

again, yes.


At 11:20 AM 7/26/2002 -0700, jonathan lawson wrote:
>subtitle: DIGITAL DEMOCRACY
>title: Free Speech and the Threat of Cable Monopolies
>
>Freedom of speech doesn't mean much if forums for speech aren't free. As 
>more Internet users switch from telephone modem access to cable broadband 
>service, their open access is less protected by regulation, and more 
>susceptible to centralized surveillance and control. In a <a 
>href="http://www.democraticmedia.org/news/ACLUCableReport.html">recently 
>released analysis</a>, the ACLU discusses how the government is failing to 
>extend to the broadband Internet crucial regulatory protections that help 
>keep today's Internet free and open to all. Unless the government changes 
>course, the ACLU warns, a handful of large corporations will have both the 
>incentive and the ability to interfere with the free flow of information 
>across the network.
>
><p>The <a href="http://www.aclu-wa.org/">ACLU</a> and the Seattle IMC 
>invite you to a  forum designed to educate media activists on how to 
>maintain open access to the Internet against the threat of cable 
>monopolies.  <b>The forum will be held Thurs. Aug. 1, 7:30pm at the IMC. 
></b> Presenters will include Jeff Chester of the DC-based <a 
>href="http://www.democraticmedia.org">Center for Digital Democracy</a>, 
>Barry Steinhardt of the ACLU's Technology and Liberty Project, and telecom 
>consultant Andrew Afflerbach.
>
><p>Chester/Larson: <a 
>href="http://www.thenation.com/docPrint.mhtml?i=special&s=olson20020722">A 
>Twelve-Step Program for Media Democracy</a> | Chester: <a 
>href="http://seattle.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=12386">Media 
>Democracy teach-in audio</a> | Chester: <a 
>href="http://seattle.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=14531">Shaping 
>the Network Society audio</a>
>
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