The Internet Belongs to Us -- Tell the FCC to Stop the Dangerous Google/Verizon Deal

By Amalia Deloney and Joshua Breitbart, Center for Media Justice
Posted on August 18, 2010, Printed on August 18, 2010
http://www.alternet.org/story/147881/

On August 19, the Federal Communications Commission will be in Minneapolis for a public hearing on the future of the Internet. The big question now looming over this hearing is whether the fate of the Internet has already been decided behind closed doors before the FCC has even heard what the public has to say.

This hearing should be an opportunity for the FCC Commissioners to learn from those outside of Washington, DC, as they deliberate over whether the Internet will be an open platform for public discussion and innovation or a private pathway for delivering commercial content. The two Commissioners who have agreed to attend, Michael Copps and Mignon Clyburn, have been stalwart defenders of the public Interest.