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Verizon and Google Announce Joint Broadband Policy
Google and Verizon have announced their joint policy agreement on the Internet and broadband, seeking a continuation of the free and open policies around the public Internet while allowing for...
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Google/Verizon Fallout Is Intense; Advocates Slam Net Neutrality Framework
Eric Schmidt and Ivan Seidenberg, the CEOs of Google and Verizon, have an op-ed in today’s Washington Post that basically recapitulates their joint policy agreement on the open Internet. It doesn’t...
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Reading Between the Lines of the White House on the FCC and Net Neutrality
In addition to the flash mobs at Target, another rally took place in front of a corporate bad actor last week. A couple busloads of activists descended on Google headquarters and protested their new...
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FCC Commissioners Copps, Clyburn Strongly Support Open Internet
Two FCC Commissioners and one US Senator slammed the Google-Verizon joint policy agreement and strongly endorsed the principle of net neutrality last night at a hearing before hundreds of citizens in...
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Waxman’s Abhorrent Broadband Bill Follows Google-Verizon Deal
Henry Waxman has been trying to enshrine the terrible compromise promulgated by Google and Verizon into law, by pushing a truly terrible bill on broadband that strips the FCC of rulemaking and...
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Verizon Sues FCC Over Net Neutrality Plan
You can say that the entire goal of Julius Genachowski’s pretend plan for net neutrality was to devise something that the telecoms could live with, while allowing him to make a defense that the Obama...
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White House Threatens Veto of Resolution Overturning Net Neutrality Rules
The White House has issued a veto threat for any bill that seeks to overturn the net neutrality policy put in place by the FCC last year. This week, House Republicans will offer a “resolution of...
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45,000 Verizon Workers Go on Strike
We haven’t had a really large labor strike in a while, so this action from Verizon repair technicians, FiOS installers and call center workers is unusual. Verizon is really trying to eliminate many of...
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Verizon Strike Ends As Labor, Management Return to Bargaining Table
On Saturday, the Communications Workers of America and the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers released a statement on the strike of 45,000 Verizon workers in the Northeast: Members of CWA...
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ACLU Files Lawsuit Against NSA Phone Spying Program
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) has filed a lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of the NSA Phone Spying Program. The American Civil Liberties Union and the New York Civil Liberties...
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As Unemployed Lose Benefits DC Enjoys A Wonderful Year Of Patronage
Thanks in part to the war economy give away/Ryan-Murray budget, the long term unemployed have lost their benefits and been left out in the cold this holiday season. Perhaps sometime next year they...
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FCC Tries To Have It Both Ways On Net Neutrality Rules
FCC Chair Wheeler spent years in private telecom. See his employment timeline, via @OpenSecretsDC: pic.twitter.com/3mVPF1swIU — MapLight (@MapLight) May 15, 2014 Federal Communications Commission...
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FISA Court Judges Signing Off On NSA Surveillance Programs Invest In Verizon...
The secretive court that rules on the legality of NSA domestic surveillance programs has members holding stakes in the telecommunications companies affected by the court’s decisions. This conflict of...
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U.S. Wrongly Argues Verizon Wireless’ Participation In NSA Program Is Classified
In a challenge to the constitutionality of the National Security Agency’s phone records surveillance program, President Barack Obama’s administration claims whether Verizon Wireless participated in the...
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Vladimir Lenin once described strikes as a response, or an act of resistance of the workers, that comes about as a result of the progression of capitalist development. When capitalists are confronted...
View ArticleVerizon Workers File Federal Complaints Against Alleged Racist Workplace Culture
Several workers recently filed equal employment opportunity complaints against Verizon, accusing their employer of racial discrimination and ignoring or retaliating against them for making allegations....
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