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The New York Times' John Markoff wrote the Federal Communications Commission hearing hosted by the law school's Center for Internet and Society:
...At Stanford a parade of witnesses challenged the efforts of the giant Internet service providers to control and, in some cases, block the data traffic that flows over their networks.
The panel was enlivened by an activist group called the “Raging Grannies,” who stood outside before the hearing began and sang songs condemning Comcast’s pricing and other practices.
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About 300 people attended to the hearing, which began with testimony from Larry Lessig, a Stanford Law School professor and founder of the Center for Internet and Society.
“We are here facing these problems because of a failure of F.C.C. policy,” Mr. Lessig said. “The F.C.C. has failed to make it absolutely clear that network owners, if they’re building the Internet, have to make it absolutely open.”