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ACLU Comments to FCC Re: Service Rules for Advanced Wireless Services in the 2155-2175 MHz Band and Service Rules for Advanced Wireless Services in the 1915-1920 MHz, 1995-2000 MHz, 2020-2025 MHz and 2175-2180 MHz Bands (07/28/2008)
The ACLU supports making broadband services more accessible to the public through universal access and expansion of the broadcast spectrum, including efforts to develop the vast unused portions of the wireless spectrum. The Commission should ensure that any licenses granted to utilize that spectrum, including the 2155-2175 MHz 1915-1920 MHz, 1995-2000 MHz, 2020-2025 MHz and 2175-2180 MHz bands that are the subject of the proposed rules in these matters, guarantee users access to the lawful Internet content of their choice, using applications and services of their choice. At the same time, the Commission should decline to impose unconstitutional conditions on license applications, such as a requirement for so-called “family friendly” filters that would censor lawful content.

ACLU, TLP, and ACLU of PA Comments Before FCC Re: Hearing on Broadband and the Digital Future (07/21/2008)
The ACLU, Technology and Liberty Project of the ACLU, and the ACLU of Pennsylvania have been principal participants in many of the important Internet censorship and neutrality cases decided by the United States Supreme Court in the past two decades, including Reno v. ACLU, Ashcroft v. ACLU, Ashcroft v. Free Speech Coalition, and the Brand X decision, in which the Court held that cable companies providing broadband Internet access were “information service providers” for purposes of regulation by the FCC under the Communications Act. The ACLU of Pennsylvania was co-counsel in two of the leading Internet decisions, Reno v. ACLU and Ashcroft v. ACLU. Last year, the ACLU of Pennsylvania obtained relief in the Ashcroft litigation that permanently enjoined the Child Online Protection Act (“COPA”).

ACLU Comments to FCC Regarding Service Rules for Advanced Wireless Services in the 2155-2175 MHz Band (06/05/2008)
The ACLU supports making broadband services more accessible to the public through universal access and expansion of the broadcast spectrum, including efforts to develop the vast unused portions of the wireless spectrum. The Commission should ensure that any licenses granted to utilize that spectrum, including the 2155-2175 MHz band that is the subject of the Petition in this matter, guarantee users access to the lawful Internet content of their choice, using applications and services of their choice. At the same time, the Commission should decline to impose unconstitutional conditions on license applications, such as a requirement for so-called "family friendly" filters that would censor lawful content.

Coalition Memo to the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Regarding "Homegrown Terrorism" (05/07/2008)

ACLU Comments to FCC Regarding Net Neutrality (03/14/2008)

Caroline Fredrickson's Testimony before the House Judiciary Committee on Net Neutrality and Free Speech on the Internet (03/11/2008)

ACLU Letter to Senators Dorgan and Snowe Supporting S. 215, "The Internet Freedom Preservation Act," To Restore Net Neutrality Protections (01/24/2007)
On behalf of the ACLU, a non-partisan organization with hundreds of thousands of activists and members and 53 affiliates nationwide, we are writing to express our support for your bipartisan bill, S. 215, "The Internet Freedom Preservation Act."

ACLU Letter to the House Energy and Commerce Committee Urging Support of the Support the Markey Amendment on Network Neutrality to Be Attached to the Communications Opportunity, Promotion and Enhancement (COPE) Act of 2006 (04/25/2006)

ACLU Letter to the House Administration Committee Regarding H.R. 1606, The Online Freedom of Speech Act (03/08/2006)

ACLU Memo on the Council of Europe Convention on Cybercrime (06/16/2004)

ACLU Letter to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on the Council of Europe Convention on Cybercrime (06/16/2004)