Net Neutrality
Net neutrality is a notion not dissimilar to common carrier
Common carrier - Wikipedia the idea that a limited public resource that conveys people, materials, or information must do so equally and without discrimination. Carry one carry all. I feel like I'm flogging the dead horse of history, besides try getting that one past a lawyer. If you laid the pages of existing telecommunications law edge to edge, well I'm sure that would break some law of nature. Net Neutrality is coming before congress for disposition:
Net neutrality goes up for a vote in Congress. I got an email from George Washington University's Internet Project for Democracy and the Internet (IPDI) announcing they were presenting a happening June 16th on this:
IPDI presents "Net Neutrality. What's at Stake - for the Internet, Politics and Consumers" (Mike McCurry is speaking). Lawrence Lessig and Robert McChesney have select words in a OpEd ed up in the Washington Post on this
No Tolls on The Internet. I've seen the ad campaign leveraged by the cable companies. That much forced cute has got to be expensive So what's at stake? The ability to discover and pursue revenue streams at will. Similar to the way some web (log) tools, where the end user content (euc) lives on the internet service company's server, are about to decide that your web log/space needs to host their ads. (EUC... how do you suppose thats pronounced, yuck perhaps?). The ability to control the speed of service by creating content tiers. The ability to control content by controlling the surfing experience. They can make your content ugly (uglier than you've already made it) They can render it inefficient by privileging other content. They can decide what lives, what dies, and what pays on the web. We already have radio, Tv, cable that are owned things and work according to their familar gatekeeping way. The internet has shown already it does not need the captured attention of the telecom's and cable companies to be viable and useful. When they say it does they are speaking only of their own self interest not yours.
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