The Proposed Caps On Bandwidth are bullshite!
Hat tip to The EFF. Did you know that: “the wholesale price to Time Warner for 40gb for a month amounts to about $3.”
“While the cable industry suggests the move is to recoup costs incurred by heavy users, the low caps they’ve got planned (ranging from 5 to 40GB) […]
Perhaps you don’t believe it is a First Amendment issue but I do. Make sure to read Constance Cumbey.
Couldn’t Help But Notice (123007)
By TBlumer
Google, with its transparently self-interested advocacy of “Net Neutrality,” is already engaging in rent-seeking and position-cementing behavior. Its (and Yahoo’s) willingness to sell out to the Chinese police state reveals the …
Another […]
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 […]
Yes, this will be about Net Neutrality along with making money online. Folks, for the love of God, please, put these together and consider where you and all of us are moving and why there is such a hubbub from the Telecoms and broadband ISPs.
There is an unfathomable amount money to be made in this […]
Good grief! A new ridiculous demeaning term is coined, Telecom Trotskyite…
Striking writers in talks to launch Web start-ups
By The Home Office
That’s why we’re so strongly in favor of Net Neutrality — because without NN, these efforts will run into the same Big Media distribution roadblocks as television. The Writers strike has hastened that evolution, as […]
I see my friend Mr. Cleland is up to his “normal” trick of attempting to diminish others to his benefit…
Wireless open access: happening or not?
Computerworld Australia - Australia
“Seems like carriers and content providers alike have been bitten by the open access bug. Big news recently was Verizon’s announcement that it plans to open up its […]
Hmmm… yes, I’ve given my favorite obsessive, compulsive a bit of fair time - pay attention, analyze quickly, hit ignore.
Testing for Net Neutrality
By Joe Hodnicki
Law.com reports on the Electronic Frontier Foundation’s new software that can tell you whether your internet browsing issues are due to intentional ISP interference. More info on EFF’s Test Your ISP […]
FCC denies Verizon’s rate-relief request
“Federal communications regulators on Tuesday denied a petition by Verizon Communications Inc. that was seeking relief from government rules over how much it charges rival phone companies to access its network in six cities.
The Federal Communications Commission said “the current evidence of competition does not satisfy” its standard with any of […]
From a PC World article by Mark Sullivan which he twistedly titled: “The Most Anti-Tech Organizations in America”
#3 - Big Telco Companies, Industry Group USTelecom (Surprised? I doubt it…)
Legions of Lobbyists
“The big telcos are very influential in Washington, and rarely loose a fight over something they really want. “They’ve got armies of lobbyists that work […]
EFF Releases Reports and Software to Spot Interference with Internet Traffic
Technology Rights Group Addresses the Comcast Controversy
“San Francisco - In the wake of the detection and reporting of Comcast Corporation’s controversial interference with Internet traffic, the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has published a comprehensive account of Comcast’s packet-forging activities and has released software and documentation […]
I am a proponent of Net Neutrality. Scott Cleland has an obvious, mentally debilitating obsession and should be ignored… (Just one man’s opinion)
UPDATED: Internet Overload by 2010: Who’s Behind The Boogie Man?
By dweb8231
Below the fold, some very interesting details on who is behind this boondoggle, why it is a fraud,and why it could become […]
Love my Google Alerts!
Net Neutrality Links 11-24-2007 (Beware The Lies!)
Whose Web is it, anyway?
Rabble.ca - Montreal,QC,Canada
Until about three weeks ago, net neutrality was a difficult issue to explain at a dinner party. It was even more of a struggle to get anybody worked up …
Kindle – Shape of the Web to Come?
By Tom Evslin
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Monks Are Silenced, and for Now, Internet Is, Too
Don’t think it could happen? The original story (and one that we all ought to pay life or death attention to);
“It was about as simple and uncomplicated as shooting demonstrators in the streets. Embarrassed by smuggled video and photographs that showed their people rising up against them, […]
Really? This is some package, to me. If you don’t, I do, find it very interesting to put this complete scenario together in my mind.
First is the Teamsters announcement of their support for Net Neutrality, “Hoffa Urges Senate to Act on Net Neutrality to Protect Freedom of Speech,” pointed to by Matt Stoller. “Kovie” offered […]
A perfect example that there really isn’t any competition in the market!
Selecting just these two posts (there are thousands);
AT&T threatens to disconnect subscribers who criticize the company
AT&T vows to use Terms of Service for good, not censorship
Folks, is anyone paying attention? I mean really? Thankfully, there are people who now scan through their cable and […]
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