Bill Moyers on Net Neutrality

Set your TiVo.  The PBS series, Moyers on America, is doing a 90-minute program called "The Net at Risk" next Wednesday evening.  The description reads, in part:

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. Yet the public knows little about what's happening behind closed doors on Capitol Hill. ...  Link:  PBS.

It's nominally scheduled at 9 ET/PT and 8 CT/MT, but owing to the weirdness of public television scheduling, your experience may vary.  Check your local listings or titanTV to confirm air time or find the customary repeats.  --Dennis

Comments

[Diane D]

Just wanted to give you all the heads up that after tonight’s broadcast of Moyers on America: The Net at Risk, we will be hosting a live and interactive debate on www.pbs.org/moyers between Mike McCurry, chair of Hands off the Internet, a coalition of telecommunication-related businesses, and Ben Scott of SavetheInternet.com and policy director at Free Press.

Hope you tune in, log on and weigh in!

Diane D
Public Affairs Television

[bob lyons]

I'm probably the last to notice this, but Moyers' is posting three minute or so clips of upcoming programs on Youtube, under the member account PBS.
Very interesting, smart.
Wonder if the account was set up by PBS, Moyers or a fan?
bl