Moyers on The Net@Risk Wed. 10/18 & other news clips

[Guest guest]

Moyers on America: " The Net@Risk " airs Wednesday, October 18, on your local

PBS station. (9 PM in PA) The future of the Internet is up for grabs. Last

year, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) effectively eliminated net

neutrality rules, which ensured that every content creator on the Internet -

from big-time media concerns to backroom bloggers - had equal opportunity to

make their voice heard. Now, large and powerful corporations are lobbying

Washington to turn the World Wide Web into what critics call a " toll road, "

threatening the equitability that has come to define global democracy's newest

forum. Online interviews at _http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/101606Q.shtml_

(http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/101606Q.shtml)

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