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WASHINGTON - Internet users should be free to surf where they want and download what they please. But shouldn't the owners of the networks that make the Internet possible also have rights? That, in a nutshell, is the topic of debate at a special public meeting of the Federal Communications Commission at Harvard Law School on Monday. Recent events involving Comcast Corp. and Verizon Wireless have raised questions about network owners interfering with customer traffic flow. The meeting also is expected to attract a rally on minority media ownership. The session is the agency's most serious public discussion to date...

P.B.S 's internet forum has a thread entitled "Do members of the news media report with a liberal bias?" Actually, it is not so much a forum discussion as a place where concerned viewers can be deprogrammed and rest assured after Bias: A CBS Insider Exposes How the Media Distort the News spent several weeks at #1 on the NYTimes Best Seller list. The book's author, Bernard Goldberg, was asked to participate in the discussion but apparently decided not to. Check out the disclaimer: "Editor's note: Bias author Bernard Goldberg, through his staff, had agreed to participate in this forum...