Friday, November 10, 2006
Most Censored Story of 2006: Network Neutrality
Project Censored has just released its most censored story list for 2006. Network Neutrality is #1 Censored story of 2006. More here.
Quoting from this:
2. Halliburton sold key nuclear reactor components to Iran.
3. The world's oceans are in extreme danger.
4. Poverty is increasing in the US despite "improved economy."
5. Six to seven million dead in Congo as US companies seek control of natural resources: diamonds; tin; copper; gold; cobalt, an element essential to nuclear, chemical, aerospace and defense industries; and, more significantly, coltan and niobum, two minerals necessary for production of cell phones and other high-tech electronics.
6. Whistleblower rights virtually eliminated for US Government employees.
7. US Troops still torturing detainees.
8. Pentagon exempt from FOIA; operational files "fully immune."
9. World Bank funds Palestine isolation wall.
10. Iraq troop drawdown accompanied by increased aerial bombing.
You've gotta love The American Way. The government doesn't censor because it doesn't need to; the media does it for us.
Quoting from this:
. . . despite important legislative proposals and Supreme Court decisions throughout 2005, [Net Neutrality] was almost completely ignored in the headlines until 2006. And except for occasional coverage on CNBC's Kudlow & Kramer, mainstream television remains hands-off to this day.The next nine stories were:
Most coverage of the issue framed it as an argument over regulation, but the term "regulation" in this case is somewhat misleading. Groups advocating for net neutrality are not promoting regulation of Internet content. What they want is a legal mandate forcing cable companies to allow ISPs free access to their cable lines (called a "common carriage" agreement). This was the model used for dial-up Internet, and it is the way content providers want to keep it. They also want to make sure that cable companies cannot screen or interrupt Internet content without a court order.
2. Halliburton sold key nuclear reactor components to Iran.
3. The world's oceans are in extreme danger.
4. Poverty is increasing in the US despite "improved economy."
5. Six to seven million dead in Congo as US companies seek control of natural resources: diamonds; tin; copper; gold; cobalt, an element essential to nuclear, chemical, aerospace and defense industries; and, more significantly, coltan and niobum, two minerals necessary for production of cell phones and other high-tech electronics.
6. Whistleblower rights virtually eliminated for US Government employees.
7. US Troops still torturing detainees.
8. Pentagon exempt from FOIA; operational files "fully immune."
9. World Bank funds Palestine isolation wall.
10. Iraq troop drawdown accompanied by increased aerial bombing.
You've gotta love The American Way. The government doesn't censor because it doesn't need to; the media does it for us.
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