New Lobbying Group Calls for Internet Filtering »
Posted By brendoman 1 year, 2 months ago in Science & TechnologyIt didn't take long for a consortium of content producers, equipment makers and internet gatekeepers to cling to a Federal Communications Commission decision embracing internet filtering.
Buried in the text of the FCC's stinging rebuke of Comcast for throttling BitTorrent and other peer-to-peer traffic was an open invitation to ISPs to filter for unauthorized copyright material. That Aug. 1 invitation was embraced Thursday by a newly formed lobby named Arts+Labs.
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