Another attack in the global war on freedom - I mean global war on terror.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t89WwcsOj9U&eurl=http://www.infowars.com/?p=2640

Really?


Net neutrality faces serious setbacks

Websites and most consumers love the idea of net neutrality.
ISPs, on the other hand, are not fans. In fact, the net neutrality movement arose as a response to major ISPs' plans to attempt to charge websites and service providers more for "better" service on their networks. Fail to pay up and that YouTube video might take twice as long to download ... or it may not download at all


This week, a major legal ruling was handed down in the Comcast case, and the tide has now turned in favor of the ISPs. The District of Columbia Court of Appeals said that the FCC had overstepped its authority in mandating net neutrality and that ISPs should be free to manage traffic however they see fit, noting that under current law, the FCC does not have "untrammeled freedom" to regulate broadband services. (In other words, Congress would have to specifically grant such powers.) The ruling was unanimous among the three judges on the panel.

Now net neutrality fans find themselves facing a serious uphill climb. Not only does the ruling open up the way — for now — for ISPs to ask websites and service providers for money; it might also allow them to restrict certain services from running on their networks entirely. Comcast, for example, may not want you to watch Hulu on its service, since then you'd have less of a reason to pay $60 a month for cable TV. It may also be able to ban VOIP services like Skype, so you'll pony up another $20 for wired telephone service. The dominoes are already lining up.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ytech_wguy/20100407/tc_ytech_wguy/ytech_wguy_tc1510


Move over, Australia: France taking 'Net censorship lead

The French lower house, the National Assembly, has just passed a security bill known as LOPPSI2, and it's expected that the Senate will follow suit in the next few weeks. As we've previously reported, LOPPSI2 is a grab bag of security items that includes state-sanctioned computer Trojans, a massive new database of citizen data (dubbed "Pericles"), and a requirement that ISPs start censoring sites on a government blacklist.

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2010/02/move-over-australia-france-taking-net-censorship-lead.ars


Death Of The Internet: Unprecedented Censorship Bill Passes in UK

A draconian Internet censorship bill that has been long looming on the horizon finally passed the house of commons in the UK yesterday, legislating for government powers to restrict and filter any website that is deemed to be undesirable for public consumption

http://www.prisonplanet.com/death-of-the-internet-unprecedented-censorship-bill-passes-in-uk.html

Up until now, any information sent over the Internet has been treated more or less equally. When a data packet enters the Internet, it is directed to its destination regardless of the identity of the customer or the importance of the information.

But now some very powerful interests want to change all that. The idea is to have the Internet much more closely resemble cable television.

In particular, a recent agreement regarding net neutrality between Google and Verizon is causing alarm among Internet users.


http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/archives/a-two-tier-internet

The Google/Verizon thing is basically the result of the already existing monopoly tactics.

None of the U.S phone companies have any competition... so they have no incentive to actually lay the physical and expensive technology to make everything faster and able to handle the loads. Packet shaping is a cheap alternative to make the majority not to happy enough to complain loudly.



The frightening thing is how this will effect countries with good communications network like the UK where net neutrality is concerned.


The rest of the western world should be as worried about the whole net neutrality thing as a whole, the U.S will set the standards based on monopoly companies. The whole net neutrality thing wouldn't be any problem if their was true competitiveness in the telco industry. The U.S needs to fix its fucking fucking capitalism so it's ACTUALLY competitive and everyone strives to build a better mousetrap.

Microsoft Proposal Opens Door For Government Licensing To Access Internet

State should have power to block individual computers from connecting to world wide web, claims CharneyMicrosoft Proposal Opens Door For Government Licensing To Access Internet

http://gunnyg.wordpress.com/2010/10/07/microsoft-proposal-opens-door-for-government-licensing-to-access-internet/

Microsoft Proposal Opens Door For Government Licensing To Access Internet

http://www.prisonplanet.com/microsoft-proposal-opens-door-for-government-licensing-to-access-internet.html