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"...the ruler who has a care of the constitution
should invent terrors, and bring distant dangers near,
in order that the citizens may be on their guard..." 
Aristotle - _Politics_  - Book Five

Fair Housing Council of San Fernando Valley v.
Roommate.com, LLC, CV-03-09386-PA (9th Cir April 2008)
(Sec. 230 Immunity not affording housing website where
third parties uploaded content potentially in
violation of fair housing laws), 9th Cir
We plumb the depths of the immunity provided by
section
230 of the Communications Decency Act of 1996 (“CDA”).
http://www.ca9.uscourts.gov/ca9/newopinions.nsf/F71559D8162BA7EE8825741F00771BC1/$file/0456916.pdf?openelement
More Info:
http://www.cybertelecom.org/cda/samaritan.htm

Commerce Committee Announces Witnesses for Future of
the Internet Hearing, Commerce Committee
No description
http://commerce.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=PressReleases.Detail&PressRelease_id=24ba0c9e-9093-4758-a9cc-7d75613f7c65
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/ci/neutral.htm

Comcast, AT&T absent at FCC hearing on Net neutrality,
CNET
Major ISPs decline an invitation by the Federal
Communications Commission to attend an en banc hearing
here at Stanford University on the subject of
broadband network management practices.
http://www.news.com/8301-10784_3-9921751-7.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20
More Info:
http://www.cybertelecom.org/ci/neutralp2p.htm

Absent Comcast in hot seat at FCC hearing, CNET
Network engineering specialists accuse Comcast of
lying about its practices at a hearing of Federal
Communication Commission regulators.
http://www.news.com/8301-10784_3-9921945-7.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20
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http://www.cybertelecom.org/ci/neutralp2p.htm

Net Neutrality Hearing Hits Silicon Valley, Wash Post
Silicon Valley high-tech entrepreneurs told the
Federal Communications Commission yesterday that there
needed to be more oversight of phone and cable
companies at the agency's second off-site hearing on
broadband Internet rules.
http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/~r/wp-dyn/rss/technology/index_xml/~3/272597634/AR2008041704136.html
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http://www.cybertelecom.org/ci/neutralp2p.htm

A One-Sided Net Neutrality Debate, Internet News
With network providers a no-show, Stanford 'debate' is
largely one-sided.
http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/InternetnewsRealtimeNewsForItManagers/~3/272699459/3741701
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http://www.cybertelecom.org/ci/neutralp2p.htm

Stanford FCC Meeting One-Sided but Useful - Lessig
dominated the conversation; ISPs were absent,
dslreports
The FCC meeting at Stanford appears to have gone well,
with multiple speakers discussing the topic of network
neutrality in-depth for the commission to hear. As
predicted, well-known net-neutrality crusader (and
Stanford professor) Larry Lessig spoke extensively at
the meeting. Unlike the other speakers, Lessig was
given an unlimited amount of time to make his points.
http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/Stanford-FCC-Meeting-OneSided-but-Useful-93693
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http://www.cybertelecom.org/ci/neutralp2p.htm

FCC Weighs Next Steps at Second Net Neutrality
Hearing, Ecommerce Times
A divided FCC on Thursday grappled further with the
thorny issue of how to relieve increasing online
congestion, disagreeing sharply over whether
government regulations are needed. The commission met
at Stanford University during a seven-hour meeting
delving into "net neutrality." It was the second such
hearing the FCC has held this year, its interest on
the subject piqued by formal complaints that Comcast
is blocking certain of its customers who upload
videos, music and other large data files from using
its network during peak traffic times.
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/rsstory/62660.html
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http://www.cybertelecom.org/ci/neutralp2p.htm

Lessig Editorial on Net Neutrality, Center for
Internet and Society
Prof. Lessig has an editorial in today's SF Chronicle
about the Net Neutrality debate. Come share your views
at today's FCC hearing on Broadband Management
practices on Stanford's campus.
http://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/node/5742
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http://www.cybertelecom.org/ci/neutralp2p.htm

Does Bell Really Have a P2P Bandwidth Problem?,
CircleID
Bell filed its response to the Canadian Association Of
Internet Providers (CAIP) submission to the Canadian
Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission
(CRTC) on its throttling practices yesterday,
unsurprisingly arguing that its actions are justified
and that there is no need to deal with the issue on an
emergency basis. Several points stand out from the
submission including its non-response to the privacy
concerns with deep-packet inspection... and its
inference that P2P usage could be deemed using a
connection as a "server" and therefore outside the
boundaries of "fair and proportionate use" under
typical ISP terms of use.
http://www.circleid.com/posts/841710_bell_p2p_bandwidth_problem/
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http://www.cybertelecom.org/ci/neutralp2p.htm

Openness for the Internet by Rep Anna Eshoo, Save the
Internet
Today’s FCC hearing on network management and access
to emerging technology is extraordinarily important
and there is no better place in our country to hold
such a hearing than in the heart of Silicon Valley —
located in the district I represent.
http://www.savetheinternet.com/blog/2008/04/17/openness-for-the-internet/
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http://www.cybertelecom.org/ci/neutralp2p.htm

Comcast Can't Fill Seats With Comcast Supporters;
Skips FCC Hearing Entirely, Techdirt
Back in February, when the FCC held a hearing about
Comcast's secretive traffic shaping efforts, Comcast
stacked the deck to some extent by hiring people off
the street to fill seats and cheer for Comcast's
position. Partly in response to outrage over such
practices, the FCC scheduled a new hearing, to be held
today at Stanford. Perhaps Comcast realized that
without paying people to fill the seats, the crowd
might be a bit more hostile. So, with that in mind, it
felt the best strategy was to not show up at all. Yes,
despite it being a hearing about Comcast's practices,
Comcast has (at the last moment) sent notice to the
FCC that it won't be participating, claiming that it
said everything that needed to be said back when it
had a
http://techdirt.com/articles/20080417/020414870.shtml
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http://www.cybertelecom.org/ci/neutralp2p.htm

Ben Scott Speaks at Stanford, Save the Internet
Among those testifying at today’s FCC hearing will be
Ben Scott, policy director of Free Press. Here’s a
sneak preview of his prepared remarks:
http://www.savetheinternet.com/blog/2008/04/17/ben-scott-speaks-at-stanford/
More Info:
http://www.cybertelecom.org/ci/neutralp2p.htm

My Testimony From Today, Tales from the Sausage
Factory
Well, that was fun. I reprint my testimony as
prepared, not as delivered. I also cut a very insider
joke. I'd planned to start: “Mr. Chairman, I
understand that this is the open Commission meeting,
so it is perhaps no surprise that we ...
http://www.wetmachine.com/item/1156
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http://www.cybertelecom.org/ci/neutralp2p.htm

Study Confirms ISPs Meddle With Web Traffic, Slashdot
Last July, a research team from the University of
Washington released an online tool to analyze whether
web pages were being altered during the transit from
web server to user. On Wednesday, the team released a
paper at the Usenix conference analyzing the data
collected from the tool. The found, unsurprisingly,
that ISPs were indeed injecting ads into web pages
viewed by a small number of users. The paper is
available at the Usenix site. From PCWorld: "To get
their data, the team wrote software that would test
whether or not someone visiting a test page on the
University of Washington's Web site was viewing HTML
that had been altered in transit. In 16 instances ads
were injected into the Web page by the visitor's
http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotYourRightsOnline/~3/272631172/article.pl
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http://www.cybertelecom.org/ci/neutralp2p.htm

Hands Off Statement on FCC Stanford Hearing, Hands off
the Internet
Today, the Federal Communications Commission held a
public hearing at Stanford University on the Internet
and network management. In response, the Hands Off the
Internet coalition (HandsOff.org) released the
following statement:
http://handsoff.org/blog/net-neutrality/hands-off-statement-on-fcc-stanford-hearing/
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http://www.cybertelecom.org/ci/neutralp2p.htm

VIDEO: FCC hearing on Network Management at Stanford,
PK
Yesterday, the FCC took a field trip to the campus of
Stanford University in Palo Alto, California. There it
heard from two panels of experts and policy shapers on
the issue of network management and more broadly net
neutrality. If you didn’t see it, or listen to the
FCC’s stream of it, thankfully, it’s been video
recorded and put on the web

http://feeds.publicknowledge.org/~r/publicknowledge-main/~3/272940876/1526
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http://www.cybertelecom.org/ci/neutralp2p.htm

FCC Hearings at Stanford: Towards a Consensus on ISP
Transparency?, EFF
Yesterday, the FCC held a second hearing in its
investigation of Comcast's use of forged RST packets
to interfere with BitTorrent and other P2P
applications. Free Press has a page linking to written
testimony, statements, and audio and video recordings
from the Stanford hearing.
http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2008/04/fcc-hearings-stanford-consensus-isp-transparency
More Info:
http://www.cybertelecom.org/ci/neutralp2p.htm

Senator Proposes to Monitor All P2P Traffic for
Illegal Files, Slashdot
mytrip writes "Senator Joe Biden (D-Del) has proposed
an ambitious plan, costing on the order of $1 billion,
aimed at curtailing illegal activities via P2P
networks. His plan involves utilizing new software to
monitor peer-to-peer traffic on an ongoing basis. 'At
an afternoon Senate Judiciary subcommittee hearing
about child exploitation on the Internet, Sen. Joe
Biden (D-Del.) said he was under the impression it's
"pretty easy to pick out the person engaged in either
transmitting or downloading violent scenes of rape,
molestation" simply by looking at file names. He urged
use of those techniques by investigators to help nab
the most egregious offenders."
http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotYourRightsOnline/~3/272169648/article.pl
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/ip/p2p.htm

RIAA Sues Homeless Man, Slashdot
NewYorkCountryLawyer writes "In a Manhattan case,
Warner v. Berry, the RIAA sued a man who lives in a
homeless shelter, leaving a copy of the summons and
complaint not at the homeless shelter, but at an
apartment the man had occupied in better times, and
had long since vacated. The RIAA's lawyers were
threatened with sanctions by the Magistrate Judge in
the case, for making misleading representations to the
Court which the Magistrate felt were intentional. The
District Judge, however, disagreed with imposing
sanctions, giving the
http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotYourRightsOnline/~3/272882955/article.pl
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/ip/p2p.htm

AT&T Still Predicts 2010 Internet Demise - But don't
worry, they're spending a lot of money to keep you
safe, dslreports
Web users regularly receive warnings from around the
industry that the Internet is going to reach its
capacity and stop working. The general argument is
that the growing number of broadband users who are
downloading videos and playing games are taxing the
ability of the current system. The reality is that
Internet providers can circumvent the problem by
upgrading their networks in order to meet the demands
of their customers. AT&T has frequently cited the year
2010 as the Armageddon date for the Internet and the
company is at it again. They say that the industry
must invest $55 billion in U.S.
http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/ATT-Still-Predicts-2010-Internet-Demise-93700
More Info:
http://www.cybertelecom.org/notes/internet.htm

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