net neutrality

Comcast to Cap Monthly Broadband Usage to 250GB

pz — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 18:21:37 -0400

According to CNET, starting October 1, Comcast is capping your monthly usage to 250Gb a month. If anyone hears about a class action lawsuit against this, please let me know. I will gladly sign up.Not only do I have to pay $50 a month for mediocre service, but now they are going to tell me what "acceptable" uses of the web exist.

Christian Coalition Supports Net Neutrality

cel4145 — Fri, 27 Apr 2007 08:15:42 -0400

I'm certain that many liberal democrats who support net neutrality will be surprised to find themselves on the same side of an issue with the Christian Coalition:

. . . Michele Combs of the Christian Coalition [claims] that Net neutrality had become a "true family issue." Who would have thought that standing up for traditional marriage and for unfettered access to Google would be two of the Christian Coalition's main issues in the upcoming presidential race? But that's exactly what's happening. Combs said that neutrality is "number two on our agenda" now, in large part because her group represents 100,000 churches, most of whom now use the web for everything from posting sermons to hosting online calendars to running e-mail lists.

Humanity Lobotomy from Four Eyed Monsters

cel4145 — Fri, 23 Feb 2007 13:08:40 -0500

Four Eyed Monsters has created a great documentary which explains why net neutrality in so important to the future of the Internet. Link courtesy of Lessig.

Open v. Closed Networks

scott — Sun, 13 Aug 2006 14:55:03 -0400

Via Boing Boing I found this James Boyle piece about open v. closed networks. Boyle has some interesting things to say about why so many policy makers and business leaders don't like open networks.

we still do not understand the kind of property that exists on networks. Most of our experience is with tangible property; fields that can be overgrazed if outsiders cannot be excluded. For that kind of property, control makes more sense. We still do not intuitively grasp the kind of property that cannot be exhausted by overuse (think of a piece of software) and that can become more valuable to us the more it is used by others (think of a communications standard).

Net Neutrality spokesman; or, my tax dollars at work

jeffwhite — Sat, 8 Jul 2006 16:21:11 -0400

I almost hate to post a link to this because Ted Stevens is an Alaskan hero of sorts....but two aspects make it worth sharing first, Steven's insightful claim that "The internet is not a big truck, it's a bunch of tubes."; and second, Dvorak's line about Ted Stevens, "It's hard to believe this guy can even find the crapper."

Holy cow, what an articulate defense of Non-Net Anti-Neutralitiationarism...er something.

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1895,1985071,00.asp

or direct link to audio repository:

http://www.publicknowledge.org/node/497