The ACLU has just issued a media advisory: it will release a report tomorrow (Wednesday the 10th) "examining the threats associated with increasing private control of the broadband Internet." According to the advisory, the study--entitled "Technological Framework for Public Interest Architecture Of Cable Television Systems"--offers "recommendations for how high-speed communications systems can be structured and operated to preserve the openness, diversity and innovation that have heretofore characterized the Internet."
The study was commissioned by the ACLU in collaboration with the Center for Digital Democracy and prepared by the Columbia Telecommunications Corporation, a Maryland telecommunications engineering consulting firm.
The press briefing is tomorrow at 9:30 a.m. EST in D.C.; meeting the press will be Barry Steinhardt, Associate Director, ACLU, Dr. Andrew Afflerbach, Principal Engineer, CTC, Jeffrey Chester, Executive Director, CDD, and Dr. Mark Cooper, Research Director, Consumer Federation of America.
***UPDATE***: Here is the ACLU policy paper and the ACLU-commissioned report.
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