Net Neutrality Links 07-06-2008
Now even encrypted traffic isn’t safe and the right’s delusion deepens…
Net Neutrality Debate Is Secretly All About Internet Television Net Pioneers Say
By MacRonin
David Clark, a senior MIT computer scientist who spent eight years as the internet’s chief protocol architect, argued that the focus on neutrality is misplaced, because the net hasn’t ever been pristine. The current debate, he says, is really a reaction to a coming tectonic collision between the cable industry’s traditional business model, and the movement of television onto the internet.
Sandvine calls net neutrality “laughable,” defends filtering
Ars Technica - Boston,MA,USA
As Sandvine puts in it a white paper on net neutrality (”A Broadband Wild West?”), “This over-subscription model is observed regularly in our modern life.
Supreme Court to Review Net Neutrality
All About Jazz - Philadelphia,PA,USA
The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco ruled against AT&T, saying the telecom company was setting its wholesale prices so high that the Internet service provider could not compete with the low prices AT&T charged in the retail market.
What a Non-Neutral Internet Looks Like — Let’s Go to the Video
Public Knowledge Tech News and Comment - Washington,D.C.,USA
By Art Brodsky on June 24, 2008 - 11:42am
Thanks to AT&T and Comcast, however, we now can see what an Internet without Net Neutrality will look like, and it’s not pretty. Right up front, we should thank our friends who labor in the neighboring vineyards of what’s called “public access” cable TV, the part of cable reserved for public, educational and governmental programming.
Group Pushes for High-Speed Internet Access for All
Redmondmag.com - CA,USA
Federal Communications Commissioner Jonathan Adelstein was among the scheduled speakers in New York at the Personal Democracy Forum to announce the creation of InternetforEveryone.org. Other participants in the news conference included Google chief technology evangelist and Internet patriarch Vinton Cerf, in addition to law professors and entrepreneurs.
Charter: NebuAd Deal Raises Concerns
MediaPost Publications - New York,USA
Digital rights groups and net neutrality advocates condemned the plan, which they viewed as more invasive than other types of online ad targeting, …
Should The US Nationalize The Internet?
InformationWeek - Manhasset,NY,USA
Greedy businesses threaten innovation by trying to put an end to net neutrality, media companies want to control every Internet-connected device in an effort to lock down distribution channels, and spammers and other fraudsters have pretty much taken over e-mail. Now, TechCrunch is reporting that Vint Cerf, the so-called “father of the Internet,” says maybe we should think of the Internet as being like the highway system — a public good that should be nationalized.
Encrypted Traffic No Longer Safe From Throttling
By CmdrTaco(help@slashdot.org)
“New research could allow ISPs to selectively block or slow down your encrypted traffic even if they cannot snoop on your transmitted data. Italian researchers have found a way to categorize the type of traffic that is hidden inside an encrypted SSH session to around 90% accuracy. They are achieving this by analyzing packet sizes and inter-packet intervals instead of looking at the content itself. Challenges remain for ISPs to implement this technology, but it’s clear that encrypting your traffic inside an SSH session or VPN connection is not a solution to protect net neutrality.”
Google’s Fight to Socialize Broadband
By podcasts@redstate.com (Redstate Network)
Through a host of third party organizations, Google is at the center of a spider web of entangled left wing interests hiding behind feel good notions like “net neutrality” that have evolved from keeping internet service providers from charging you extra for using iTunes instead of Rhapsody, into socialized broadband.
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