Seattle Times Publishes Op-Ed by Open MIC and Trillium

The Seattle Times published an Op-Ed by Open MIC and Trillium Asset Management Corporation: “FCC shouldn’t tolerate abuses by Internet’s corporate gatekeepers.”

The Op-Ed challenges Comcast, AT&T and a host of other Internet Service Providers for their secretive, invasive and deceptive practices that compromise consumers’ privacy and freedom of expression.

To read the article, click here http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/opinion/2008114549_openoped15.html

Freedom of Expression at Risk

On December 20, 2007, The Seattle Times published an op-ed by Trillium Asset Management Corporation Vice President Farnum Brown and Michael Connor, the executive director of Open Mic, a nonprofit working to promote a vibrant, diverse media ecosystem through market-based solutions.  Brown and Connor demanded:

 COMCAST, Verizon, and AT&T need to come clean.

Those three – and other cable and telephone companies – need to disclose exactly how they decide to restrict the freedom of expression of hundreds of millions of Americans. They need to explain exactly how they decide to limit Americans’ access to the Internet and other information services. As consumers, investors and citizens, we have a right to know.

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