Net Neutrality Links
I’m adding this link to the Net Neutrality Page.
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Neutralityââ¬â¢ Is New Challenge for Internet Pioneer an Interview on Net Neutrality with Sir Tim Berners-Lee By JOHN MARKOFF Published: September 27, 2006
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Q. Youââ¬â¢ve spoken about the concept of a Dark Net, which would balkanize the Internet. Do you have a nightmare scenario?
A. In the long term, Iââ¬â¢m optimistic because I think even if the United States ends up faltering in its quest for Net neutrality, I think the rest of the world will be horrified, and there will be very strong pressure from other countries who will become a world separate from the U.S., where the Net is neutral. If things go wrong in the States, then I think the result could be that the United States would then have a less-competitive market where content providers could provide a limited selection of all the same old movies to their customers because they have a captive market.
Meanwhile, in other countries, youââ¬â¢d get a much more dynamic and much more competitive market for television over the Internet. So that youââ¬â¢d end up finding that the U.S. would then fall behind and become less competitive until they saw what was going on and fixed it. I just hope we donââ¬â¢t have to go through a dark period, a little dark ages while people experiment with dropping Net neutrality and then, perhaps, put it back.
–ME “Liz” Strauss
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Net Neutrality is an interesting concept and I fear that some day, probably not any time soon, but someday, we will see govt step in. It may be hard for some to grasp but this entire push for globalization, the two forces of good and evil who have the sense to conquer each other through any means possible, to control the will of others, and the actual capability to do it through technological breakthroughs , makes me believe stronger each and every day what we have known as the Internet may be categorized as what the Wild West was once to the New World.
Steve,
What a well-thought, well-written comment. At this point the only answer seems that the government has to step in. The problem started because they stepped out — In 2005, the Supreme Court ruling changed the regulatory classification of ISPs and removed the nodiscrimination protections of the Internet. That’s what net neutrality is all about. Because that AT&T and Verizon are facing way fewer restrictions and have made no secret about how they intende to create an Internet fast lane.
Hi Liz,
Steve is right that the government may need to step in someday but “not anytime soon.”
Have you ever thought of net neutrality in terms of life or death? The healthcare industry is a perfect case in point where communication delays could cause serious harm at the patientââ¬â¢s expense.
Net neutrality regulations will hurt states like West Virginia. From The Journal.. “Net neutrality advocates say every bit of Internet traffic should be treated alike. But that makes as much sense as an emergency room that eliminates triage and treats a broken nose with the same urgency as a heart attack. In an ER, some cases are more critical. On the Internet, some bits of data are more important. Medical data needs to get where itââ¬â¢s going fast and safe. If an e-mail or music video is delayed by a traffic jam on the network, the damage is minimal. If a medical transmission is disrupted, someone could die.”
http://www.journal-news.net/columns/articles.asp?articleID=3935
Have a good one!
HandsOff43
Of course, specious arguments from astroturf(TM) commenters is nothing new to anyone who’ve been hanging out here and other places where Net Neutrality is being debated. Telepresence medicine is a common red herring issue that the astroturfers drag out every now and again when they feel they’re in an environment where the readers aren’t likely to know that teleprescence surgery deployed TODAY use dedicated satellite links or dedicated “Black Fiber” landlines with absolutely no competing traffic going over the communication curcuits in question. This is not going to change in the future either, unless the telcos want to be on the receiving end of a medical malpractice lawsuit alleging tortuous interference in medical treatment.
Assuming can be a dangerous activity, but I assume that it’s not good business sense for Verizon et.al. to diverge from the current practice given the liability issues they’d open up for themselves.
Then again…
Well said, AdLib, I think you’ve covered the issue fully. I suspect that very soon, you too will be on a first name basis with an entire organization. 🙂
Well, as long as they don’t call me up Friday night and ask me for a date, that’s okay 🙂
If you’re busy Friday . . . are you free on Saturday? 🙂
I was thinking of moving my furniture this weekend, actually 🙂 If you wanna hop over and help, you’re welcome to join in the fun of moving the Library 😛
That would be cool. Could there be a plane ticket reimbursement program for the moving effort?
I’m paying my help in fresh pizza – do you think you could survive eating that much?
I could eat that much, but I don’t think I could fly it home. 🙂
That’s okay – I’ve lined up my slave driver of a brother, along with a whole pack of friends I’ve helped move for whenever my ISP says they’re ready to move my access point. I’m not moving until my connection comes with me…
Oh, just to be a bit on-topic – have you seen this and that yet?
I don’t blame you for waiting for your connections. No I hadn’t see those yet. Thanks!