Net Neutrality Links 01-06-2008
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 confused anti-Neutrality Op-Ed
An anti-Net Neutrality Op-Ed in today’s Seattle Times, Hysteria Makes for Bad Law, by information technology provider Avis Yates Rivers, is so riddled with omissions and sloppy logic, I do not know where to start taking it apart. …
The Year in First Amendment …read more
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 …read more
Net Neutrality Links 12-23-2007
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 this LA Times story …
T-Mobile Attacks Net Neutrality Unnecessarily: Twitter Problem Not Its Fault
Wired Blogs – USA
The argument T-Mobile’s serviceperson offers is useful because it outlines the straightforward, no-messing-around strategy that bandwidth providers have for killing net neutrality: block the customer, then treat the …read more
Net Neutrality Links 12-16-2007
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 wireless network to any device or application. And Google upped the ante by announcing its intention to bid on the available 700-MHz spectrum in upcoming auctions, a portion of which, thanks to Google’s lobbying efforts, is required to be open access as well.”
Engineers: P2P is …read more
Graffiti
I see the well-known art form graffiti has made it to the Internet…
Or – to Google’s or your front door or “wall.”
That’s right, GRAFFITI. “A form of vandalism involving painted text or images in public places.”
VANDALISM – “Needless damage or destruction of property, usually someone else’s property or common or shared property.”
Now let us all imagine that internet graffiti gangs, otherwise known as ISP’s, are allowed to overwrite anybody’s web page that they choose to. Yeah, makes perfect sense to me. Then we can develop new employment opportunities on the Internet – web site scrubbers exactly like the city workers …read more
Net Neutrality Links 12-08-2007
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 project here. The San Francisco-based …
Google’s not feeling the love from the state of California on net neutrality
By Scott Cleland
Two prominent Californians that matter recently did not side with home state Google on Google’s pet policy crusade — net neutrality. Awwwww. I feel bad …read more
Net Neutrality Links 12-01-2007
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 a major weapon in the ongoing battle to eliminate net neutrality.
Net Neutrality, Good for Innovation?
By just an OldGuy (just an OldGuy)
Kahn rejected the term “Net Neutrality”, calling it “a slogan”. He cautioned against dogmatic views of network architecture, saying the need for experimentation at …read more
Net Neutrality Links 11-24-2007
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
If so, there are profound implications for web development (hint: develop apps that run in a browser), the Internet access business, and even Net Neutrality. There may even be a tie in with Amazon’s hosting business for such apps. Hmmm …
You’re Being Ripped Off
By kidcanuck
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A Perfect Example – There Is No Competition!
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 phone bills and make these discoveries otherwise “they’d” sneak them past us.
Telecoms are denying service, censoring and now claiming the right to cancel for what? Bad conduct by you and I, that’s what – in their discretion!
Their discretionary powers are more than very disturbing, seems …read more




