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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Net Neutrality Links 07-06-2008

The restricted press event conducted by Rogers yesterday appears to be in response to an increasingly vocal uproar by internet users, 3rd party internet service providers and advocacy groups to outlaw the practice of traffic shaping and deep packet inspection.

Google preps net neut dowser
Register – London, England, UK
In an effort to identify traffic discrimination by American ISPs, Google is prepping a suite of network analysis tools for everyday broadband users.

“We’re trying to develop tools, software tools…that allow people to detect what’s happening with their broadband connections, so they can let [ISPs] know that they’re not happy with what they’re getting – that they think certain services are being tampered with,” Google senior policy director Richard Whitt said this morning during a panel discussion at Santa Clara University, an hour south of San Francisco.

If the country doesn’t have neutral networks, Whitt contends, innovation stagnates among application developers. And he believes that individual consumers – as well as Washington policy makers – should join the fight for such neutrality.

Net Neutrality and How the ISP’s May Destroy the Internet
By Larry
Here’s a bit of info that alarms the heck out of me. Apparently, the major Internet services providers around the globe are planning on charging consumers extra for visiting websites outside their ’subscription Internet area.’

Innovation 08 panel on Net Neutrality at Santa Clara University
By george_ou@lanarchitect.net
Ou is adamant that – whether it (Net Neutrality rules) forbids ISPs from prioritizing apps and services or it forbids them from selling prioritization – neutrality regulation would actually prevent things like video and voice from flourishing on our worldwide IP network.

The Hundt-Powell Debate
Broadcasting & Cable – New York, NY, USA
Network neutrality: Obama is for regulation that would assure network neutrality. Hundt said, “Net neutrality is basically the broadband, future-oriented version of common-carrier [regulations], which worked in this country to provide an absolute rule against discrimination for decades and decades. And only those who are not willing to embrace the future are reluctant to take that same principle and apply it to broadband. Net neutrality is a principle of free speech, free choice and sound economics.”

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Net Neutrality Links 06-22-2008

Senate Hearing on Net Neutrality Raises New Piracy Concerns
The Heartland Institute – Chicago, IL, USA
The role of piracy in the net neutrality debate roiled a US House of Representatives subcommittee hearing on May 6. Lawmakers of the Subcommittee on Telecommunications and the Internet entertained arguments regarding Chairman Ed Markey’s bill (HR 5353) that would establish net neutrality as the Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC) governing principle, commence an official proceeding against broadband providers, and require “broadband summits” around the country.

“This whole idea that this legislation helps piracy is 100 percent wrong. It’s a red herring,” said Markey (D-MA).

Samsung, Panasonic, Intel, Others Join Cable’s Tru2Way
Broadcasting & Cable – New York, NY, USA
But McSlarrow stepped back into the arena for a moment, saying “Unfortunately, this point is lost on many of the net neutrality advocates whose stilted view of networks informs the almost laughable allegation that we have an interest in undermining the ‘new world’ of broadband to protect the “old world” of linear video . . . in which case, we sure are wasting a lot of time and money enabling all these great applications.”

Net Neutrality Could Sabotage Health Care Tech
The Heartland Institute – Chicago, IL, USA
Technology such as RFID tags connected with wireless networks can help create an “always on” health monitoring system, transitioning society away from a “mainframe” medical model and redirecting it toward a smaller, more personalized, PC-type model.

This is a great idea, but the unspoken truth is that this type of communication requires healthy, innovative networks. That raises a key question about net neutrality, an issue spun and re-spun by many.

FCC Commissioner Adelstein Makes a Strong Case for Net Neutrality
By Mehan Jayasuriya
His most insightful comments, however, were on the topic of Net Neutrality and how the battle for neutral networks is linked to the American tradition of decentralized media.

Apple spends $390K on lobbying
MacUser – San Francisco, CA, USA
Finally, they lobbied on “legislation preserving the practice of treating all traffic on the Web equally, and on another bill to reform a federal program that awards subsidies for providing high-speed Internet service in schools, libraries and in rural areas.”

Net Neutrality Does Not Protect Free Speech
By Peter Suderman
The net neutrality debate has been rife with scare-mongering from the start, but the latest suggestion from the ACLU — that net neutrality is a necessary component of free speech — continues to annoy me: …

McCain Discovers The Internet, Disses Net Neutrality
By ReallySeriousNews
We know that we, the netroots, are miles ahead of DC politicians and the gasbag pundit class, with bloggers exposing truths the media never would have paid attention to, and activists working to turn electoral politics on its ear. …

Rogers admits to violating net neutrality
Digital Home – Toronto, Ontario, Canada
… Rogers Communications admitted that it violated the principle of net neutrality by arbitrarily interfering with customer’s internet communications. The company told representatives from the CBC and the Globe and Mail that its primary method for interfering with how subscribers use their internet connection – known as traffic shaping – is to throttle customers upload speeds.

Candidates Differ on Net Neutrality
By Vlada Gelman
Campaign surrogates for John McCain said the Republican presidential candidate would not support network neutrality legislation, pushing for regulation that would separate broadcast, cable and possibly the Internet instead, Broadcasting & Cable reports. Meanwhile, Barack Obama’s representatives said the Democratic presidential candidate would support net neutrality and a diversity of voice to prevent further media consolidation, the newspaper says.

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Net Neutrality Links 06-16-2008

The Angus Net Neutrality Bill
By Michael Geist
NDP MP Charlie Angus introduced his private member’s net neutrality bill in the House of Commons this afternoon. The short bill seeks to add transparency, neutral network management, and open devices to the Canadian telecom law …

Jon comments at Michael Geist’s : “I’m not opposed to paying by the MB since that would force transparency upon the ISPs with regard to their pricing practices. I am opposed to data caps and steep penalties for exceeding them because these will probably interfere with and possibly even stymie creative use of the internet.”

Canadian punk rocker-turned-MP submits net neutrality bill
Ars Technica – Boston,MA,USA
Much as the US debate over the net neutrality issue spawned SavetheInternet.com, Canada’s fight this week produced SaveOurNet.ca, a group designed to channel …

T-Mobile spent $700000 lobbying in first quarter
Forbes – NY,USA
The company, the nation’s fourth largest cellular carrier, also lobbied lawmakers on the issue of “Net neutrality,” or the principle that all Web traffic be …

Class Action Suit Against Bell For Throttling
Slashdot – USA
doppiodave writes “Hard on the heels of the Net Neutrality bill introduced in Canada’s Parliament, a class action suit was filed yesterday against Bell by …

Marshall McLuhan On Net Neutrality
By Robbo
In his 1964 book Understanding Media: The Extensions Of Man, famed media scholar Marshall McLuhan wrote these words: Once we have surrendered our senses and nervous systems to the private manipulation of those who would try to benefit from taking a lease on our eyes and ears and nerves, we don’t really have any rights left. …

Post’s ‘Web Cops’ Are Off The Beat on Net Neutrality
By Art Brodsky
The Washington Post has again taken the low road on keeping a free and open Internet. In its latest editorial, the newspaper of record in the Nation’s Capital again declined to view the reality of a duopoly broadband market and a lack …

Comcast Beginning ‘Net Neutrality’ Testing
Wired News – USA
Comcast will begin testing what the cable concern has described as a “protocol agnostic” approach to managing bandwidth traffic during high-peak periods, Comcast said Tuesday. …

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Net Neutrality Links 06-09-2008