Senate Hearing Tomorrow

The Senate has their third hearing scheduled tomorrow on the Communications, Consumers' Choice, and Broadband Deployment Act of 2006 (S. 2686).  If anyone's available to watch the webstream (which should be here or hopefully at C-SPAN here), they should blog it here.

Save Access writes:

"The Senate Commerce Committee is in hearings for S.2686, the Communications, Consumers' Choice, and Broadband Deployment Act of 2006. The next hearing is scheduled for June 13, 2006 with a tentative mark-up scheduled for June 20th. This is where the wrongs of COPE can be righted. Once the Senate votes on a Bill, it is resolved with the House Bill in Conference Committee. See our S.2686 page for more info."

If you haven't already, call your Senators and tell them to Save Access and the Internet. Time is running out.

“Withering of the Net” with Lawrence Lessig

Just saw this event with Lawrence Lessig listed at Free Press, that's taking place in D.C. this Friday at 1pm. Wish he'd come to Boston and speak to folks here. If the Center for American Progress (the organization that's hosting the event) were smart they'd stream it live and make it available as a podcast afterwards, so more people could tune in. After all, this is about the Internet, what we have today, and what may not be here tomorrow. Here's the info:

The Withering of the Net: How D.C. pathologies are undermining the growth and wealth of the Net

Featured Speaker:
Lawrence Lessig, Professor, Stanford University

Introduction by:
Carl Malamud, Senior Fellow and Chief Technology Officer, Center for American Progress

"Contrary to urban myth, the Internet was not built by the U.S. government. Nor was it built by Google, Amazon, Microsoft, or Cisco. The Net was built by thousands of engineers from all over the world who cooperated across organizational, ideological, and national boundaries. Some were freelance consultants, some worked with the blessing of their employers, others simply did it and let their bosses know later."

Read on here.