This is a topic I've been meaning to post on for a long time. I've been away for most of the weekend in my little spare time this evening I thought I'd hit on it.
The topic is Net Neutrality. The topic is a difficult one to summarize, but I'll attempt to. Essentially, the way the Internet exists now, the pipes that allow ISP's to connect and broadcast on the Internet are content blind. That is t
penciling_in writes “CircleID has a post by Richard Bennett, one of the panelists in the recent Innovation forum on open access and net neutrality — where Google announced their upcoming throttling detector. From the article: ‘My name is Richard Bennett and I’m a network engineer. I’ve built networking products for 30 years and contributed to [...]
Blog owners should keep an eye on the net neutrality issue and contact your US elected officials to let him/her know your feelings on this important issue and to keep the internet available equally for all. It's great to see...
Far be it from me to criticize Senators for talking tough, yet I can't help feeling skeptical:
Sen. Ron Wyden (D-OR) stepped in front of a group of tech executives in Washington this morning to deliver a caffeinated and surprisingly sharp defense of network neutrality. Pledging to use "every ounce of my energy to protect network neutrality," Wyden had a message for ISPs who might be pondering new charges for various forms of access: "think twice." If ISPs start down that road, they might soon find that they lose key legal protections including "safe harbors" and tax freedom.
As I said, I like it when Senators talk tough to corporations, especially if they are actually in the room. But consider the political realities. Congress has yet to pass a real net neutrality bill into law. This mea
Activists use sex to bring attention to an issue many know nothing about: Beligian political activist Tanya Devereaux, aka Tania Derveaux, says "I will make love with every virgin who defends the Internet." [photo link]Tania Derveaux is young and beautiful and she wants your attention. And thanks to her first two attributes, odds are she won’t have a tough time getting it. But just to make sure, she’s posing nearly nude online and making an offer to those less-experienced Internet enthusiasts of the world.Click here to go to the "Save the Internet, Don't stay a Virgin" website.According to Gizmodo, This is not the first time that Ms Devereaux has offered up her orifices for a good cause. Last year she put 40,000 blowjobs on the negotiating table when she ran for a seat in the Belgian s
Tania Derveaux, who previously made what was probably the best campaign promise ever to get votes as a candidate for Senate in Belgium, is now working for net neutrality. She is offering to make love to every virgin who backs net neutrality:
I’m using sex in a positive way to spread awareness. The reason why only [...]
Tomorrow, the Commerce Committee will hold a hearing on net neutrality. Senator John Kerry wants your comments:
We need to set the rules of the road so that it doesn’t take overwhelming public pressure to get movement from corporations on network management issues. We need to give the investment and telecommunications industries clarity on what they can expect going forward.
I’ve seen compelling testimony that Net Neutrality, for example, would have a minimal effect on investment in infrastructure improvements and expansion. There is simply no reason for us to delay any longer in this.
I understand that clogged traffic due to high volume can be a problem – another reason to enact policies to expand infrastructure, by the way – but discriminating against content is not an acceptab
By: Spacelab Research Staff
The Federal
Communications Comission held a hearing at Stanford University last
week to talk about Net Neutrality, this time in regards to network
management. It sounds geeky and boring, but it actually has a huge
impact on how we get to view and download content from the Internet.
The
hearing went down at the Stanford Law School's
If bandwidth were resources:
Before the use of traffic shaping, Bell says five per cent of users were chewing up 33 per cent of available bandwidth. “In other words, 95 per cent of Bell subscribers were being negatively impacted by a very small minority of Internet users using P2P file sharing applications.”
and wishes were horses:
U.N. figure [...]
Atrocious acts are only proliferated through gross repetition, so you will not the disturbing and widely circulated clip in which 8 Florida teens participate in the brutal beating of their sixteen year old peer, but for sake of context, you can find the footage here.Watching the video and reading press coverage reveals that the act was absolutely baseless and at best animalistic. As the victim of pack aggression is being knocked unconscious, her attackers repeatedly call out, "why don't you like us!?" and, "come on...fight...defend yourself," clearly stupid motivation.The teens' video never made it to its intended definition, YouTube, due to police intervention, but the very fact that the intended result was mass exposure via the video networking giant, coupled with the instigation lying
The FCC is going after Comcast (NASDAQ: CMCSA) for cutting bandwidth to some file-sharing services which use huge amounts of capacity on the cable company's...
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Canadian ISP Rogers seem to take control of users’ browsers and show them what they want than what users want to see. You have been used to see a clean, white Google homepage usually, but then why this time some clutter at the top of the page? Well, Rogers, itself decided to add that clutter [...]
The FCC faced its first real challenge in the realm of net neutrality this week, when several consumer groups called upon the federal regulation organization to “stop Comcast from interfering with I
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Vent’anni fa, gli inventori di Internet progettarono un’architettura semplice e generale. Qualunque computer poteva mandare pacchetti di dati a qualunque altro computer. La rete non guardava all’interno dei pacchetti. È stata la purezza di quel progetto, e la rigorosa indipendenza dai legislatori, che ha permesso ad Internet di crescere e essere utile. Quel progetto ha permesso all’hardware e alle tecnologie di trasmissione a supporto di Internet di evolvere fino a renderlo migliaia di volte più veloce, nel contempo permettendo l’uso delle stesse applicazioni di allora. Ha permesso alle applicazioni internet di venire introdotte e di evolvere indipendentemente.
Quando ho progettato il Web non ho avuto bisogno di chiedere il permesso a nessuno. Le nuove applicazioni arrivavano sul mercato già esistente di Internet senza modificarlo. Allora provai a rendere la tecnologia del web una piattaforma al contempo universale e neutrale
If you haven't heard, people are talking this week about Sunday night's Lollapalooza concert in Chicago, in which Pearl Jam's headlining performance was edited by an AT&T webcast that carried the conc
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Recently, I posted on net neutrality. In that post, I urged readers to contact their various Senators. I followed my own advice and sent my Senators an email. One of those Senators, Sen. Wayne Allard, responded… at least, his office responded. Below is a portion of that response.
As a United States Senator, I believe I should help ensure that policies are in place to foster timely deployment of broadband to all sectors and geographical locations of American society. The current debate in the U.S. Congress and across the nation is concentrated on whether additional laws and regulations are needed to ensure the development of competition and its subsequent consumer benefits (often referred to as “net neutrality”), or conversely, whether more laws and regulations would be overly burdensome and discourage investment and deployment of such services. Congress should be careful in approving legislation without first examining its ramifications on economic growth, innovation
What is Net Neutrality?
Well, right now what we have is net neutrality. What in means in a nutshell is that everyone pays the same fee for the same access to the same lines that make the web work. Anyone who wants to build a website can build one and be sure that it will load for most people most of the time. Small voices compete with large ones. Large voices have to compete with small ones. That is net neutrality.
The nation’s largest telephone and cable companies — including AT&T, Verizon, Comcast and Time Warner — want to be Internet gatekeepers, deciding which Web sites go fast or slow and which won’t load at all.
Save the Internet, FAQ
Well they own the lines don’t they? Yes. Yes they do.
Imagine, though, that you were to apply for telephone service and find that you could not get such service because the telephone company executives do not like the business you run? Suppose that you could get service but it only works during non-business hours– u
What is Net Neutrality?
Well, right now what we have is net neutrality. What in means in a nutshell is that everyone pays the same fee for the same access to the same lines that make the web work. Anyone who wants to build a website can build one and be sure that it will load for most people most of the time. Small voices compete with large ones. Large voices have to compete with small ones. That is net neutrality.
The nation’s largest telephone and cable companies — including AT&T, Verizon, Comcast and Time Warner — want to be Internet gatekeepers, deciding which Web sites go fast or slow and which won’t load at all.
Save the Internet, FAQ
Well they own the lines don’t they? Yes. Yes they do.
Imagine, though, that you were to apply for telephone service and find that you could not get such service because the telephone company executives do not like the business you run? Suppose that you could get service but it only works during non-business hours– u
Maine Passes a Net Neutrality Resolution - Slashdot - MaineExcerpt:"Spamicles writes "Maine has become the first state in the US to pass legislation on net neutrality. The resolution, LD 1675, recognizes the importance of 'full, fair and non-discriminatory access to the Internet' and instructs the Public Advocate to study what can be done to protect the rights of Maine Internet users."http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/01/26/0136221&tid=158
I just made my voice heard on the net neutrality issue. IF you value the Internet, you should also."Net neutrality" is an issue that will shape the future of the Internet.Save The Internet.NetCompetition.orgNetwork neutrality is the principle that Internet users should be in control of what content they view and what applications they use on the Internet. The Internet has operated according to this neutrality principle since its earliest days. Indeed, it is this neutrality that has allowed many companies, including Google, to launch, grow, and innovate. Fundamentally, net neutrality is about equal access to the Internet. In our view, the broadband carriers should not be permitted to use their market power to discriminate against competing applications or content. Just as telephone companies are not permitted to tell consumers who they can call or what they can say, broadband carriers should not be allowed to use their market power to control activity online. Today, the neutrality of t
The net neutrality idiots are starting to swarm again. They smell blood in the water and are getting ready to push their socialist agenda through congress again, hoping to time it perfectly with the induction of a new socialist president.
Net Neutrality is regulation idiots. What don’t you get about that? Regulation DOES NOT EQUAL FREEDOM. Stupid, stupid idiots. When will you learn?
"In a much celebrated remark, a senior Bush administration aide told journalist Ron Suskind: "When we act, we create our own reality. And while you're studying that reality, we'll act again, creating other new realities." But with the democratisation of publishing, creating new realities is now a game that everyone can play."And that is when Google comes into the scene.We have a saying "No leaf moves unless Google wants it."And it is dramathically true.You can create as many realities as you want and like, but if you are not indexed, how can the OTHERS know?Net neutrality is a great thing.It is like freedom, the most important issue of our life.But what do you do with freedom with an empty belly?The same as you do with Net Neutrality when nobody hears your voice on the NET.It is not important the NEWS, what is important is WHO lets you know about the NEWS.That is WHERE the power is and where Net Neutrality is worth nothing.Think and you'll have the problem of disposal of ideas...
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I just stumbled upon this video and thought it was worth sharing. JunkNova and its members support net neutrality. Also, let me just get this of my chest: “FUCK THE PHONE COMPANIES for trying to take control of the internet”. Please watch the movie and do whatever you can to support the pro net neutrality movement. Let us know what you did to help the cause in the comment section. Go to SaveTheInternet to find out more about the cause.
My MySpace account, like my LinkedIn and Friendster accounts, is just one of many ways for friends to get in touch with me. As you can tell by looking at any of them I’ve done virtually nothing to personalize them - they’re really just one way for my friends to end up here.
For awhile now I’ve been warning my friends about the trouble that will occur if Net Neutrality is ever dissolved. Trust me - we’ll all be much happier if Net Neutrality stays in place.
In a recent post Ask a Ninja, titled MySpace Will Censor You, the guys discuss a situation developing on MySpace which is a pretty good example of what Net Neutrality would entail. Right now MySpace bans the use of video services like Revver basically preventing users from posting Revver videos to their site. It’s not just videos they ban but apparently any outgoing links to the site. According to Ask a Ninja if you even try linking to Revver the link will be removed once you submit your changes.
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The Net Neutrality debate is now front and center in the US Senate (well, when their not talking about Iraq) as Senators Olympia Snowe (R-ME) and Byron Dorgan (D-ND) introduce the Internet Freedom...
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Christmas is nearing... But even in exciting times like this, it is important to remember that Net Neutrality still needs our help. The Internet is a great place for Christmas shopping, and I know that most of my presents this year have been bought at either Dabs or Amazon. But where would the net be without neutrality?
Well, there's a very imformative video that just popped along to say hello.
And that's the whole thing! 4 minutes of info, that will change the world. IP's are locked in a furious debate, with no way out. Join the fight for net neutrality! JOin the fight for freedom.
If you visit this website, search on Google, shop on Amazon.com, or even just loaf around the net then Net Neutrality is most definitely a subject you should learn more about. While I strive to avoid putting anything of a political nature on this site, it’s important that we (as internet users and digital media consumers) understand what exactly the future of the internet faces.
Below you’ll see a video describing Net Neutrality in it’s simplest terms. I’ll take it a step further and draw a parallel with something else that might seem familiar, Cable TV.
Turning on your cable box you may have access to channels like SpikeTV or G4TV. One town over, however, where they use a different Cable System they may not get these same channels. What’s worse (if you live in a town like Worcester) the cable systems a town over might get more stations and have more offerings. Now imagine your internet service being affected the same way. Imagine being in a town whe
Tying together (1) e-mail innovations to (2) wireless innovation in general and (3) net neutrality in the wireless space.
Wireless is about voice and SMS, but BB/internet/TV/etc. could be a nice add-on for those shiny 3G/4G networks. Demand will not be exploding (to say the least), so I believe operators are dumb trying to limit access (thus introducing the net neutrality issue to the wireless
OK! New plan! I am VERY sorry about never getting around to putting together the spoof of the YouTuber’s Net Neutrality video, but have decided to make up for it by starting a NEW spoof.
This is the newest savetheinternet.org propaganda piece in favor of Net Neutrality:
We must spoof this! It is too pukearific not to be spoofed (and it is much fresher than the other video, so we will have a much more relavent spoof to put on savetehinternet.org)!
I think we need a script for this one, so please volunteer to write it if you can be timely. Also, I need a volunteer to edit it together as I can not be trusted any longer to bring projects like this together (but I have an excuse as I run my own business, and this blog is lower on my priorities lately) .
p.s.  If anyone wants the video footage I collected from the last failed spoof, let me know. I would still love to see it edited together and submitted to YouTube.
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Back in November I took a look at wVoIP to see why it's not working. Also, I linked innovation to the net neutrality debate. In the meantime we've had pretty disruptive products from 3 Group (X-Series) and Vodafone (a string of internet deals). I said that 'there is no net neutrality debate in wireless (yet)'.
Now that could be changing, as RCR, Ars Technica and Dailywireless.org report,
