Notes from the Electronic Cottage 12/14/17

Producer/Host: Jim Campbell

Three of the five FCC commissioners are voting to do away with a constellation of rules referred to as Net Neutrality, rules that protect users of the web from all sorts of use discrimination. These commissioners, none of whom are engineers or technologists, feel this is the best thing for the Internet. The people who invented the Internet and the World Wide Web have a very different opinion: “Internet Pioneers and Leaders Tell the FCC: you Don’t Understand How the Internet Works.” The link to their letter to Congress is at: https://pioneersfornetneutrality.tumblr.com. Now only Congress can protect Internet users – if their constituents tell them to.

Maine Currents 12/12/17

Producer/Host: Amy Browne
Audio recorded by: John Greenman & Matt Murphy

Democrats Eyeing Poliquin’s Congressional Seat Meet with Voters (Part 1 of 2)

Four of the Democratic challengers for Bruce Poliquin’s CD2 congressional seat were in Orland last week speaking on a panel organized by the Maine Common Good Coalition. Jonathan Fulford, Jared Golden, Tim Rich and Lucas St. Clair took questions from a packed audience for close to 2 hours. A 5th candidate, Craig Olson, was unable to attend due to illness. We’ll bring you part 2 on Maine Currents next week, Tuesday 12/19 at 4pm


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