Net Neutrality Links 01-20-2008
Check this out - a Digg type FCC site - and, once again, our friend Scott has forgotten the common sense fact that the Telcos have a $200 billion hand-out with which to improve the infrastructure and allow for higher bandwidth usage.
Groups Press FCC on Comcast, Net Neutrality (Washington Post)
Several consumer groups are challenging federal regulators to stop Comcast from interfering with Internet traffic on its network.
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By Marianne
But in another move that lends credence to the idea that feminism isn’t about women, it’s about the whole liberal agenda, NOW put out an action alert asking its cronies to demand Net Neutrality.
Is secret favouritism ruining Net?
London Free Press - Canada
By David Canton, Freelance Writer
Net neutrality is a topic that continues to simmer and remain a going concern for some Internet activists, while for others, including Internet service providers (ISPs), it’s a non-issue and something critics and fear-mongers are espousing to create problems…
Monday Inspiration: Data Visualization and Infographics
By Vitaly Friedman & Sven Lennartz
This infographic is supposed to emphasize the importance of net neutrality; it isn’t really a data visualization, but it instantly delivers the message: this is how our future might look like …
Flattening the American Internet
TMCnet - USA
Debates around net neutrality highlight some underlying issues. The goal of net neutrality is to preserve the open and interconnected nature of the public …
Net Neutrality - Why Every SEO & Small Business Owner Should Care
By Bretton Jones
Welcome to the politics of Network Neutrality! Net Neutrality, as an issue, has come about as the result of the large telecoms claiming that while providing internet service, they have the right to limit bandwidth or block access to web …
FCC Taking On Comcast for Non-Net Neutrality?
By Kristen Nicole
The larger issue is of course net neutrality, and with this being an election year for a new president in the White House and a renewed interest in the regulation of various Internet protocol, services and related companies, …
The Common Sense Case Why Network Management Trumps Net Neutrality
By Scott Cleland
No one should mistake the FCC doing its job in investigating significant allegations (by issuing public notices for comments), for an FCC predilection against reasonable network management in favor of net neutrality supremacy. …
The Network Management Excuse
CircleID - Vancouver,British Columbia,Canada
Cleland’s willful ignorance extends to the end-to-end principle as it is embodied in Internet architecture. It surfaces in his claim that Net Neutrality would overturn the Americans with Disabilities Act. He ignores the fact that the Internet shifts the whole idea of “accessibility” to the application layer. He ignores the fact that once a carrier provides the pipe, it doesn’t need to worry about the accessibility of the applications. The programmer, not the carrier, turns text to speech for the blind, amplifies the lower frequencies for the hearing impaired, and provides the voice command interface for those unable to use a keyboard. Only in telcoland are apps and pipes inextricable.
Could Use-Based Broadband Pricing Help the Net Neutrality Debate?
By David Robinson
… they can monetize, and against the traffic they can’t. By allowing them to monetize all traffic, a shift to use based pricing would weaken one of the most persuasive reasons network operators have to oppose net neutrality.
Akamai As Proof Of A Non-Neutral Net?
WebProNews - Lexington,KY,USA
An interesting Net Neutrality micro-debate has surfaced surrounding Akamai and whether Akamai’s services are a violation of Net Neutrality principles. …
FCC starts Comcast cover-up on net neutrality
ZDNet Blogs - USA
The Bush FCC has launched an “inquiry” which will likely kill net neutrality complaints by deeming throttling of BitTorrent traffic “reasonable. …
Doing the Big Thing
By Doc Searls
With Time Warner Cable does the right thing, David Isenberg breaks ranks with fellow net neutrality advocates by lauding Time Warner Cable’s “plan to charge more when you send or receive more Internet data”. David explains, …
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