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Net Neutrality
Net Neutrality portal. Tim Wu described Network Neutrality as "The basic principle behind a network anti-discrimination regime is to give users the right to use non-harmful network attachments or applications, and give innovators the... [more]
Net Neutrality portal. Tim Wu described Network Neutrality as "The basic principle behind a network anti-discrimination regime is to give users the right to use non-harmful network attachments or applications, and give innovators the corresponding freedom to supply them."
Yesterday, Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission Kevin Martin came down hard on the side of "network neutrality" by recommending punishment against Comcast Corporation*. According to the Associated Press (see the report here), Mr. Martin said "The commission has adopted a set of principles that protects consumers access to the Internet. We found that Comcast's actions in this instance violated our principles." At issue was a formal complaint brought to the FCC by net...
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Just like their music, entitlement-oriented hippies never die, they just keep on driving you crazy. The parents of the hippies fought a war to save democracy, and then busted their nuts to build a suburban world, so prosperous their pampered children would never have to struggle. In return the kids gave them ulcers and drove them to Valium. The hippies then shed their clown clothes and became yuppies, giving a whole new meaning to selfishness, building our hollow culture of...
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Imagine an Internet where the big corporations and big media have finally taken control and throttled the explosion of free, uncensored content. Imagine an Internet where radical voices and nonconformists have at last been muzzled and shut down. Imagine an Internet where the big corporations that want to reach inside your pocket and your cranium have achieved their dream of making it impossible for individual Net users to share free, unfettered content, information and files. Imagine a...
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Humanity Lobotomy - Second Draft
This is a really frightening reality that we all must face. The big corporations want to control the internet, and soon. This brief video will explain what Net Neutrality means. Watch it and pass it along.
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The push by the big internet broadband access providers (telecoms - dsl & cable companies - cable modems), also called “last mile providers”, for higher 2-tiered rates is back with vengeance, as evidenced in Federal Communications Commission (FCC), hearings touring the country. The current Internet rates controversy basically centers around end-user fees for multi-tier pricing for video viewing resulting from enormous bandwidth requirements. What seems to be completely missing from...
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Scheduled witnesses and outspoken citizens both demanded that the FCC stop Internet service providers from favoring any one type of traffic over others.
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At the end of 2007, we saw a surge in the amount of content that ISPs were injecting into websites in order to gain additional revenue for themselves. Canadian cable operator Rogers was found to be utilizing deep packet inspection to insert Javascript into various websites with messages for...
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Regulators hold public hearing with few ground rules, resulting in haphazardly meandering comments on spam, porn, privacy, Net neutrality, and copyright infringement.
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The National Association of Telecommunications Officer & Advisors, the trade group for local regulators, has created a national broadband policy strategy calling for net neutrality and nationwide deployment of advanced deployment of two-way, high-capacity networks.
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In the past year I’ve received something like 10,000 items in my RSS feed about net neutrality. I’ve ignored every single one of them. I feel bad about that—I like to think I’m a good citizen about these things, and every post I’ve scanned and then ignored gave me the impression that this is...
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Net Neutrality is a hot topic as of late. It seems that not a week goes by without news breaking regarding a certain politician's stance on net neutrality, or a tech company introducing a new technology designed to inspect, detect, or shape net traffic is some way, shape or form. Considering...
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This week I co-authored an article about "net neutrality" or "Open Internet" as others call it, with GOP Internet consultant David All.
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Props to FCC Chair Kevin Martin for putting some very small enforcement teeth into the FCC's four Net Neutrality principles, which he had said at the time of adoption were "unenforceable." He proposes no fine ...
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Google And Other Big Business Begins To Take Sides
Toronto-There has been a continued debate about the actions of Bell Canada, and other large Internet service providers in attempting to regulate the activity of Internet users that use large amounts of bandwidth.
There has been a formal complain...
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Earlier today, I agreed to sit on the Net Neutrality panel at the Search Engine Strategies Conference in San Jose in mid August.
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