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FCC Broadband Ruling & MN Task Force

August 22, 2008 By Steve Borsch

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If you’re reading Minnov8 you use, understand and undoubtedly rely upon the internet and your broadband connection. You may also be building a business or revenue stream upon the internet-as-a-platform for innovation, and as such you absolutely must stay close to net neutrality, FCC rulings and, most importantly, what our Minnesota Ultra High-Speed Broadband Task Force is doing to meet their legislative mandate (the task force site is now live and definitely worth checking out).

Ironically in a day when early adopters, influencers and the Minnesota tech cognescenti long ago embraced RSS as an efficient means of staying informed easily, the task force site doesn’t even have a feed, but instead asks you to sign up for an “e-newsletter” (how quaint….but I digress).

Thankfully I follow the task force member representing Twin Cities interests, Mike O’Connor, and the UrbanBroadbandUsers blog via his RSS feed, and I was pleased to have a heads-up on the first meeting minutes (PDF) and, especially, his compiled links on today’s feed:

  • CLICK HERE for the FCC document.
  • CLICK HERE for Susan Crawford’s commentary
  • CLICK HERE for Harold Feld’s commentary
  • CLICK HERE for Larry Lessig’s letter to the FCC commending them on their decision.

If you do nothing else this weekend but invest even a half an hour reading these, you’ll have a pretty good handle on the issue, the importance of this August 1st ruling by the FCC, and why this matters to you if the internet is at all central to your life or you see it as important to your business or Minnesota’s future.

Filed Under: Internet & Society

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