Twittering FCC Hearing
Apr 17, 2008
Halfway through today's FCC hearing at Stanford, we decided to experiment with posting updates about the meeting to Twitter. If you're familiar with the service, you know brevity is required (140 characters to be exact). It's worked much better, for us at least, than trying to relay everything in long form.
The public comment period at the hearing opened a few minutes ago with a question from the ACLU's Nicole Ozer and we'll continue to share "tweets" as appropriate. To find and follow us, visit Twitter. Our profile name is TechPolicy.
To get an idea of what you're in store for, here are some of our recent Twitter updates:
- Brett Glass of Lariat.net to FCC: P2P is not a free speech issue because it's never necessary to use P2P.
- Applause for Brett Glass, CEO of Lariat.net, for being the only network operator to testify at FCC hearing today.
- Free Press' Ben Scott at FCC hearing: This is much bigger than Comcast and BItTorrent. Few choices carry as much weight as this one does.
- Gregory Rosston, Stanford economist, is telling FCC commissioners what he thinks they need to do differently. Summary: increase competition.
- George Ford, economist at Phoenix Center, got booed at the FCC hearing.
- Feld on Comcast: 75% of time, tester was unable to download King James bible via BitTorrent. But attempts to download porn didn't fail once.
Tags:
FCC, network management, network neutrality, Stanford, Twitter
