Internet neutrality

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Overview

From the Jeff Chester news item linked below: "The nation's largest telephone and cable companies are crafting an alarming set of strategies that would transform the free, open and nondiscriminatory Internet of today to a privately run and branded service that would charge a fee for virtually everything we do online."

Reference

• Wikipedia
• Network neutrality legislation at SourceWatch

Links

• Center for Digital Democracy
• savetheinternet.com

Blog Entries

• 2006-08-19 Net Neutrality... another oversimplification: this raises some good ideas
• 2006-07-08 The Golden Age of the Internet (Jerry Pournelle)
• 2006-06-09 A turning point in the history of the Internet: extensively quotes Vint Cerf, "inventor of the internet", and adds commentary from Lawrence Lessig and Robert McChesney
• 2006-05-15 Relevant entries on isen.blog:
  • Cartoonist Scott Kurtz joins Network Neutrality fight
  • The Planet Below is not one of my Preferred Customers
  • REM joins Network Neutrality effort
  • Telcos: "Trust us"
  • Contest: How many lies can you spot?

News

• 2006-05-14 High-Definition Video Could Choke Internet (slashdot)
• 2006-05-11 Network neutrality update: more bills, more conflicts of interest by Conor Kenny
• 2006-05-08 The Web We Love is Endangered by Annalee Newitz, AlterNet
• 2006-02-01 The End of the Internet? by Jeff Chester
• 2004-12-29 Brand X by Annalee Newitz, AlterNet: some earlier wrangling which may be related