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

Miscellaneous

Some of these links may belong here, and some may belong elsewhere...

• 2006-08-21 The Google Ploy—A Revolution?: apparently Google's free wiring of Mountain View, CA for WiFi was what sparked the whole debate over neutrality
• 2006-08-03 Vint Cerf to Senate: Don't Wait; Enact Net Neutrality! by Vinton Cerf
• 2006-07-06 Nuts and Bolts of Network Neutrality by Edward W. Felten
• 2006-06-29 If we build it they will come: It's time to own our own last mile by Robert X. Cringely
• 2006-06-22 Net Neutered: Why don't they tell us ending Net Neutrality might kill BitTorrent? by Robert X. Cringely
• 2006-06-21 Net Neutrality: This is serious by Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the web
• (no date) Summary:$200 Billion Broadband Scandal by Bruce Kushnick