---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Hazel Henderson <[email protected]> Date: Mon, Jun 23, 2014 at 12:36 PM Subject: FW: Caving In on Net Neutrality ! To: "Bauwens, Michel" <[email protected]> Cc: Jeremy Rifkin <[email protected]>, Ervin Laszlo <[email protected]>, "Ervin Laszlo, Masami & Hiroo Saionji" <[email protected]>, Danielle Lanyard <[email protected]>, Yochai Benkler < [email protected]>, Don Tapscott Dear Michel : FYI ! Cheers, Hazel *HAZEL HENDERSON, D.Sc.Hon., FRSA* *President - Ethical Markets Media (USA and Brazil), a Certified B Corporation* *Author, Mapping the Global Transition to the Solar Age* *hazel(dot)henderson(at)ethicalmarkets(dot)com, 904-829-3140* *EthicalMarkets.com, EthicalBiomimicryFinance.com, HazelHenderson.com* *Watch our **video <http://youtu.be/kGDKQlTfSO8>* *and read the 2014 **Green Transition Scoreboard <http://www.ethicalmarkets.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/GTS-report-water-focus-March-2014-3-29-14.pdf>**® report.* *From:* Hazel Henderson [mailto:[email protected]] *Sent:* Monday, June 23, 2014 1:28 PM *To:* 'Firestone, Charles M. ([email protected])' *Cc:* '[email protected]'; Rosalinda Sanquiche; 'Grayson, Alan'; 'Hall, Brad'; 'Nell Minow'; 'Nancy Roof'; 'Christina Carvalho Pinto'; 'Rosa Alegria'; '[email protected]'; 'Oscar Motomura'; 'Matt Renner'; 'Kathy Tan'; '[email protected]' *Subject:* Caving In on Net Neutrality ! Dear Charlie : I have just finished reading your VIDEO VERITAS report . While there is a lot of good content , I searched in vain for a forthright discussion of the looming issue of protecting net neutrality . A company like ours : Ethical Markets Media (USA & Brazil) Certified B Corporation would never have gotten off the ground , let alone prospered , without net neutrality. We became one of the new genre of “ micro-multinationals” described by Don Tapscott , author of Macrowikinomics , who endorses our Green Transition Scoreboard® . Our Brazilian affiliate , Mercado Etico , based in Sao Paulo, won an award for the best coverage of the RIO + 20 Earth Summit in 2012. Our EthicMark® Awards for Advertising that Uplifts the Human Spirit and our Potentials for the Future is now in process with its distinguished Judges decision for our 8th Annual Awards , presented at the annual SRI conference in Colorado in October ,2014.. You can really help pressure Tom Wheeler ,the new chair of the FCC and former lobbyist for both cable and wireless industries, to stop the rot which began in 2002 under Michael Powell’s disastrous chairmanship, which re-classified ISPs as “ information services “ under Section 706 of the 1996 Telecommunications Act rather than the common carriers they clearly are. I know he is one of Aspen’s inner circle. This unfortunate drift toward favoring ISPs continued under Chair Julius Genachowski, who I see is now part of your Communications and Society Program at the Aspen institute. The FCC undermined its own mandate by allowing this re-interpretation .Yet the common carrier provision under Title II of the Communications Act of 1934 still holds ! The US based ISPs are already too powerful and they got their way when Mr. Genachowski punched two holes in the FCC’s Open Internet Order of 2010 , which allowed Verizon’s challenge and led to the federal court’s throwing the issue back to the FCC . Yet,the Supreme Court’s 2005 reaffirmed the FCC’s power to change the classification of ISPs ! We urge FCC Chair Wheeler to return to the “common carrier “ interpretation of Title II, which is vital if we are to achieve your objective in the VIDEO VERITAS report and “ Building a 21st Century Video Platform for a High-Performance Society. We share this aim , and our TV programs on “Transforming Finance “ are distributed worldwide on www.films.com and on demand at www.ethicalmarkets.tv Ethical Markets Media (USA & Brazil) is keenly interested in this issue , as is every other small alterative news and information platform , as well as thousands of other internet-based companies , all dependent on a fair global information commons. We would be happy to interview you and Mr. Genachowski on these issues . Charlie : you may not know that I cut my teeth in the 1960s, as an NGO organizer of Citizens for Clean Air in New York City , by getting the major TV networks and radio stations to carry our public service ad campaign , created pro bono for us by the Carl Ally agency , with the crucial backing of then FCC Chair Newton Minow ( whose daughter, Nell Minow serves on our global Advisory Board ) and the late publisher Norman Cousins , as well as William Bernbach of Doyle Dane Bernbach, John Kluge of Metromedia and other public-spirited media executives. I look forward to your and Mr. Genachowski’s response. We can publish this on www.ethicalmarkets.com on our Wealth of Networks page. We are launching our own MOOC next month, THE ETHICAL MARKETS EXPLORATORIUM , for global citizen activists. With warmest wishes and my thanks for all your excellent reports, Hazel *DR. HAZEL HENDERSON, D.Sc.Hon., FRSA* *President - Ethical Markets Media (USA and Brazil), a Certified B Corporation* *Author, Mapping the Global Transition to the Solar Age* *hazel(dot)henderson(at)ethicalmarkets(dot)com, 904-829-3140* *EthicalMarkets.com, EthicalBiomimicryFinance.com, HazelHenderson.com* *Watch our **video <http://youtu.be/kGDKQlTfSO8>* *and read the 2014 **Green Transition Scoreboard <http://www.ethicalmarkets.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/GTS-report-water-focus-March-2014-3-29-14.pdf>**® report.* -- *Please note an intrusion wiped out my inbox on February 8; I have no record of previous communication, proposals, etc ..* P2P Foundation: http://p2pfoundation.net - http://blog.p2pfoundation.net <http://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/p2p-foundation>Updates: http://twitter.com/mbauwens; http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens #82 on the (En)Rich list: http://enrichlist.org/the-complete-list/