“Carriers had successfully suppressed shareholder proposals on net neutrality in the past three years.”
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Verizon and AT&T Accused of Being Threats to Democracy
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AT&T’s mad, mad plan to charge wireless app developers
“With this plan AT&T may have found a means to discriminate using pricing, and possibly could halt innovation by companies that can’t pay to offset their users’ data.”
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AT&T Must Let Beastie Boy Vote on Net Neutrality, SEC Says
“Net neutrality is the free speech issue of our time and today’s decision by the SEC was a big win in the fight to maintain a free and open Internet,” Senator Al Franken, a Minnesota Democrat, said in a statement.
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SEC’s ‘rogue’ ruling protects an open Internet
“If neutrality isn’t maintained for wireless devices…we won’t have free, equal access to information. Democracy itself depends on the free flow of information, and in this day and age, so does economic recovery.
FoxNews.com -
SEC: Wireless carriers must allow shareholder votes on data neutrality
“The SEC ordered that Verizon, AT&T, and Sprint Nextel must allow shareholder votes on Net neutrality. The companies have displayed transparent hypocrisy in arguing against the votes.”
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SEC Denies Carrier Attempts to Block Shareholder Net Neutrality Votes
“Carriers had successfully suppressed shareholder proposals on net neutrality in the past three years.”
PCWorld
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Verizon and AT&T Accused of Being Threats to Democracy
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