Is It Too Late to Save Net Neutrality?


Sean Carton | March 3
Publish.com -
Broadband providers are already monkeying with traffic to give their own products higher priority than third-party solutions. Yeah, that's ethical!

... Sites like Google, Yahoo, and eBay all once started small but were able to appear as the big players at the time because of the leveling effect of the neutral Net.

The open-source movement was able to flourish as a free, grassroots, global collaboration because those involved had equal access. Many found success as bloggers because they started small, wrote smart stuff, and built up their readerships using the same access that Comcast, AT&T and Microsoft had.

It's the way the Net's been and the way it should stay. The future of the Web depends on it.
What You Can Do:

quiet Bill March 8, 2006 - 8:31am

There's trouble north of the border:

Vonage isn't happy about Canadian cable giant, Shaw Communications, claiming they can't guarantee service quality for bandwidth-intensive applications like VoIP. As a result, they're offering a service to consumers where, by paying $10/month, "Shaw will provide a quality of service (QoS) feature that will enhance these services when used over the Shaw High Speed Internet network."

Apparently, Rogers already slows BitTorrent traffic and limits total bandwidth used.

If journalism is the first draft of history, what is blogging?

Nick March 9, 2006 - 10:50am

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