Good posting by Colin Rhinesmith on Read the complete post on cmediachange.net, which also includes a pretty concise and direct definition of what Net Neutrality is.

As many advocates of public access television are already aware, the Internet is essential to their work in cable television. Not only is the Internet a vital platform for accessing the programming and organizational information of community media centers, it is also becoming the next generation distribution platform for local and diverse voices in community media production.

More importantly, I would add that community media advocates should look beyond using the Internet as simply a new video distribution platform to be used in combination with public, educational and government access channels. It should be considered as a platform for community communications to augment the physical interactions of people collaborating within community media centers.

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The issue of community control over local communications has been an essential concern for community media advocates over the past thirty years, as noted in Linda K. Fuller‚s important work on Community Television in the United States and in other sources. The issue of network neutrality is just another stage in this political process.

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