Net Neutrality Links 12-30-2007
Stan Schroeder leads us off with a bit of a fantasy post containing;
A Web 2.0 Christmas Fairy Tale
By Stan Schroeder
Net neutrality is strictly adhered to except on BitTorrent Day, a special day in the year when corporate customers get their bandwidth reduced to let the BitTorrent users leech 20% more stuff. And finally, the increased income from …
Year in review: Quiet year for tech on Capitol Hill
by Anne Broach
It was also a quiet year for an issue that so dominated the political debate in 2006: Net neutrality. Just after Congress opened its new session, two senators reintroduced a 2006 bill that would generally prohibit broadband operators from prioritizing Internet content, and House Democratic leaders predicted it would top their tech agenda this year. But no action has been taken on the Senate proposal; no counterpart bill has emerged in the House as of mid-December; and no congressional hearings were held, although thousands of comments on the topic poured into the Federal Communications Commission during the summer.
Cross-ownership and new media
By Dan Kennedy
As long as we can preserve net neutrality, such a mediascape is almost certain to come into being. And, at that point, there will no longer be a rationale for regulating the media. For some 80 years now, the FCC has regulated the …
(Over) Simplifying the Complex
By Larry Downes
A few weeks ago, I published an op-ed opposing pending Net Neutrality legislation. The editorial appeared simultaneously on both CNet and ZDNet. Of course there are many in the technology community who disagree with me and who believe …
Satellite Internet Exchange: Nayasat
The peering arrangement allows local ISPs to exchange traffic on a barter basis, rather than on a cash basis—net neutrality being the key. Such arrangements bypass ITU protocol, regarding revenue sharing and allow net lower cost to all …
Broadband is everywhere in Taiwan–why not the US?
By Martin
GigaOm’s Om Malik points to a story detailing how broadband access is available for practically every city and community in Taiwan. This is a tremendous accomplishment for any country and one to be proud of, but it also draws more attention to the fact that the United States–supposedly the technological leader and innovator of the free world–is falling further and further behind in its adoption of broadband Internet services nationwide …
Fixing What Isn’t Broken
By Harry
She wants to end net neutrality and proposes pricing and policy changes by Internet Service providers (ISPs). In any other business model, growing to meet this demand would be easy. …
The Smartest, Dumbest Tech Moves of ‘07
PC World - USA
“And messing with the protocol in the way Comcast did with forged TCP packets was a dumb move, especially when the net neutrality issue is dying down.” …
And So This Was Christmas By Eileen Fleming (Vanunu)
By dandelionsalad
Nor will it; as long as there is Net Neutrality and truth, justice and peace seekers. In an email received from Vanunu on December 26, 2007 he wrote:. Bad news, Dec. 25 th. The police come to the American Colony to arrest me. …
“Black Blogging Year In Review: We Did It!” - - Yobachi
By Francis L. Holland Blog
That’s why it’s so important that we FIGHT FOR NET NEUTRALITY! If IPOs or search engines can control what websites you can go to on their services, it’sa wrap. We’re back to the same thing because then they could block us out. The net neutrality thing is something that all bloggers from all walks should come together to fight for – liberal, conservative, moderate – black or white - socio-politically conscious or celebrity bloggers; we all have the same stake in fighting for this one. …
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