If it wasn’t clear already, I think Net Neutrality is the key issue for all filmmakers.
The Conservatives at The FCC have been up to the old dis-info game. Robert McDowell, one of the two FCC commisioners to recently vote AGAINST the Comcast judgement, tried to rally the right by linking Net Neutrality to the abandoned Fairness Doctrine.
The team behind the indie hit FOUR EYED MONSTORS is making a doc on Net Neutrality and needs everyone’s help. They have a trailer up here. Check it out.
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Boing Boing hipped me to the Electronic Frontier Foundations’s ISP Testing Tool “Switzerland”.
“Until now, there hasn’t been a reliable way to tell if somebody — a hacker, an ISP, corporate firewall, or the Great Firewall of China — is modifying your Internet traffic en route.”
I imagine Net Neutrality will be a regular focus here at IW2BF. I am by no means an expert on it, but I do recognize that my opportunity as a Content Creater (aka Film Producer) to access audiences hinges on it. As a general audience member too, I relish my ability to watch what I want, when I want it, and resist anyone telling me what to watch (without me first selecting that curator that is) or restricting my or anyone’s ability to access it. It is precisely this open access that I love about the Internet. And it is this that the TeleCo’s and others wish to end.
This site could not have been built without the help and insight of Michael Morgenstern. My thanks go out to him.
Help save indie film and give this guy a job in web design or film!
