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Petition the Copyright Office for Your Digital Rights
Tell the Copyright Office you want the right to repair and modify the electronics you own
When you bought your car, did you ask whether copyright law would prevent you from bringing it to your local (non-dealer) repair shop to get it fix...
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Supplemental Brief on Legal Authority for Mobile Net Neutrality
Click here to read the full document New America’s Open Technology Institute (“OTI”) has filed extensive comments, reply comments and ex parte fili...
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12 Numbers That Show America's Internet Has An Equality Problem
*$51 -- The average monthly price of broadband service in 2014, according to the nonprofit New America Foundation. *
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Net Neutrality’s Achilles Heel
Interconnection abuse could break the Internet -- but the FCC can stop it
Last week, elected officials, tech companies, and consumer advocates gathered on Capitol Hill for hearings on a controversial bill that would put a...
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NSA reform still cyber bill's biggest hurdle
“Instead of calling on Congress to pass information sharing legislation, the president should again call for the passage of effective surveillance ...
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No Revolution Without Reflection
Working with both the Open Technology Institute at New America and the Smart Chicago Collaborative, and in coordination with civic tech peers, prac...
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Increasing the Free Flow of Information to Cuba under U.S. Sanctions
New authorizations will increase access to personal communications and telecommunications services
On December 17, President Barack Obama made a historic announcement: after maintaining a restrictive trade embargo on Cuba for more than 50 years, ...
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OTI Welcomes Congressional Support for Net Neutrality, But Urges FCC to Continue to Lead
Today, the Senate and House are holding hearings on a new legislative proposal that would prevent Internet service providers from blocking or throt...
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Think Fast: The trickiest part of Obama's nationwide broadband initiative
But although some form of Internet access is practically ubiquitous today, more than 50 million Americans aren’t online, and for many it’s because ...
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SpaceX and Google Plot a Space Internet
Elon Musk's private space exploration company SpaceX has raised $1 billion from investors — including Google. That's a boost for the satellite busi...
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Audio Slide Show: Wireless Infrastructure
communities without easy or affordable access to the internet are setting up their own wireless networks. In this audio slide show, Greta Byrum of ...
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Think Fast
Nonetheless, by elevating this issue to the national stage, Obama is opening the door for community-driven solutions to address the digital divide....
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Proposed net neutrality bill is a 'solution in search of a problem'
Congress would better serve consumers and small businesses by allowing the FCC to move forward with light-touch net neutrality protections instruct...
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Broadband Competition: Improving Internet Access, Speed And Price
President Barack Obama recently called for more competition among broadband providers to help extend Internet service to those who don’t have it—an...
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President makes unprecedented cybersecurity pitch
"It's heartening that President Obama's address focused on Americans' privacy, but the only way to fulfill that promise is to pass surveillance ref...
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Building Journalism With Community, Not For It
McCann argues that “‘For’ is the thorn in the paw of the ‘civic’ movement today. We espouse to build new, collaborative systems, new technologies, ...
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2015: What Do You Think About Machines That Think?
Will smarter and more empowered global networks of things further erode the power and legitimacy of nation states beyond what the Internet has alre...
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Zombie cookies: How Verizon Wireless’s ‘supercookies’ make it even harder to avoid being tracked online
"Deleting cookies is one of the few ways those concerned with tracking know to avoid having their behavior logged," said Laura Moy, senior policy c...
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OTI Welcomes Sprint as Latest Network Neutrality Supporter; Urges Prompt FCC Action
WASHINGTON, DC – Today, Sprint’s Chief Technology Officer Stephen Bye submitted a letter to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), noting tha...
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Why President Obama’s Plan Just Might Fix the Internet
The Open Technology Institute’s most recent Cost of Connectivity report summarized its findings like this: “The data that we have collected in the ...
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OTI Applauds President Obama for Taking Strongs Steps to Improve Access to High-Speed Internet
Yesterday, the President released a fact sheet outlining bold steps to improve the competitive landscape for broadband access in the United States....
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Big Cable, Obama spar over government-run broadband networks
“The President is right: we need to invest in high-speed broadband networks to help ensure that all Americans have affordable, quality Internet opt...