“Ted Hope Blasts FCC Proposal To End Net Neutrality” proclaimed Variety today. Meanwhile…
Over in Fandorland, our CTO and Co-Founder Dan Aronson laid it out pretty clearly what Net Neutrality — and the loss of it — means for independent filmmakers and film lovers. He starts:
“Charlie Chaplin, Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks and D.W. Griffith banded together to form United Artists nearly a hundred years ago, with hopes of controlling their own work and liberating it from the studios’ grip. Filmmakers today face similar challenges in gaining control of their work from faceless commercial entities. While there are, of course, more opportunities for creating work than ever before, filmmakers are also increasingly facing roadblocks to getting that work seen by the public. This is where Net Neutrality comes into play.”
Read the whole post here.
The print media seems to recognize what a crisis this is for a free society. Filmmakers have yet to rise up in protest though. Hopefully some of these articles will change that:
“Goodbye Net Neutrality; Hello Net Discrimination” Tim Wu, The New Yorker
“Creating A Two Speed Internet” The Editorial Board, The New York Times
I wonder what the DGA, PGA, IFP, Film Independent, and Sundance have to say about it. Tribeca is now funded by AT&T so I don’t expect they will be able to say much unfortunately.
