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Above and further below on this page you'll find earlier methods of communicating important information from undercovered participants in the on-going battle over net neutrality. Immediately below, you'll find The Net Neutrality Channel, made possible through the use of Brightcove technology and containing a number of interviews with leading spokespeople defending their positions on the question of net neutrality.

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"net neutrality" variously defined

For a selection of definitions of "net neutrality" from the perspective of assorted telecom players, published on February 12, 2006, on the web site of washingtonpost.com, which concludes by saying that "net neutrality" is, "Currently, the most hotly lobbied telecom issue" and "An expected source for tens of millions of dollars in industry campaign contributions during this election cycle," click here.

With the publication in the April 9, 2006, edition of The Los Angeles Times of a major article by James S. Granelli, Times Staff Writer, entitled "Phone, Cable May Charge Dot-Coms That Want to Race Along the Internet," the leading newspaper in the Western United States finally introduced its readers to a debate "that has," in the words of analyst Blair Levin at investment banking firm Stifel, Nicolaus & Co., who is quoted in the piece, "a world war sense about it," but which had already been receiving thorough coverage on the web site of the upstart online publication Etopia News, which you're reading right now.

You can watch a drive through Los Angeles and a bit of spring foliage and listen to excerpts from five audio interviews about net neutrality and media diversity, previously published on Etopia News' American Politics Today web site on April 2, 2006, by clicking on the image below:

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"A Net Neutrality Sampler"

You can listen to the complete audio interviews excerpted in this video by clicking on the names of the activists below:

Andrew Jay Schwartzman, President and CEO, Media Access Project (January 30, 2006)

Anthony Riddle, Executive Director, Alliance for Community Media (December 20, 2005)

Ben Scott, Policy Director, Free Press (January 13, 2006)

Harold Feld, Senior VP, Media Access Project (February 2, 2006)

Jonathan Rintels, President and Executive Director, Center for Creative Voices in Media (January 30, 2006)

You can access an interview with Dana Spiegel, Executive Director, NYCwireless, explaining "net neutrality" by clicking here or watch and listen to it directly by clicking on the image below

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Dana Spiegel, Executive Director, NYCwireless

You can access a compendium of material about net neutrality and related issues involving telecom reform on the web site of the public advocacy group ViewersChoice.org by clicking here.

Ken McNeely, president of AT&T California says three times that he knows of no plans to violate the principle of net neutrality by his company in the California market

You can access an audio clip of Ken McNeely, President of AT&T California, saying three times on April 4, 2006, in an extended audio interview with California Politics Today, that he knows of no plans to violate the principle of net neutrality on the part of his company in California by clicking here. You can listen directly to this statement by Mr. McNeely by clicking on his photo, below:

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Ken McNeely, President, AT&T California

mobile Internet video providers may already be violating the principle of net neutrality with the privileging of "on-desk" (proprietary) over "off-deck" ("indyweb") content

You can watch and listen to a brief discussion about "net neutrality" as it applies to the privileging of "on-desk" over "off-desk" mobile video by clicking here or by clicking on the image below:

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Ken Rutkowski, moderator, Mobile Global Domination panel at Digital Hollywood conference
Loew's Santa Monica, March 27, 2006

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