Jeff Chester

Jeff Chester is executive director of the Center for Digital Democracy (www.democraticmedia.org), a Washington, DC-based nonprofit. He is the author of Digital Destiny: New Media and the Future of Democracy (The New Press).

Currently

  • House Panel Shoots Down Net Neutrality

    April 27, 2006

    Despite pressure from Internet mavens, Congress edged closer this week to a pay-as-you-go Internet.

  • Key House Panel Votes to Kill Community TV

    April 24, 2006

    A key House committee--with the support of many Democrats--has approved a measure that eliminates the last remaining government policy insuring local oversight on communications companies.

  • Google's Wi-Fi Privacy Ploy

    March 24, 2006

    Google and other telecom giants are wooing cities with plans to create public Wi-Fi grids. But there's no such thing as a free digital lunch: The price we pay is a loss of online privacy.

  • The End of the Internet?

    February 1, 2006

    Telephone and cable companies are crafting strategies to transform the free and open Internet to a privately run service that would charge a fee for virtually everything we do online. Can we stop them?

2004

  • ABC's Digital Convention Scam

    August 25, 2004

    ABC will cover the GOP convention precisely as it covered the Democratic event--by largely ignoring it.

2003

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