Archive for September, 2007:
Net Neutrality debate gets traction
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I cited a DoJ statement in a previous article that was destined to stagnate or kill all innovation on the web, by permitting ISPs to end the end-to-end nature of the internet.
I’ve been trying to draw the attention of some other technical people by talking about NN on mailing lists. Sadly some people have got [...]
A license to do something bad isn’t reason to.
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For months, ISPs in Europe have been campaigning to preserve their ‘mere conduit’ status, or in English they have been fighting to prove that they should be able to treat all packets, between customers and the resources that they want to access equally. This means, no content blocking, monitoring, and fundamentally no commercial favouritism – [...]
Why Municipally Provided Wifi Must Never Be Allowed
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I have twice now had to defend an unpopular premise – that local governments should not provide free wifi to residents and visitors. A recent thread on the Open Rights Group discussion list almost got pretty out of hand between a few people who thought it was dangerous for the government to be providing [...]
