Net Neutrality Links
I’ve added these links to the Net Neutrality Page today.
Whatââ¬â¢s Really at Stake with Net Neutrality by Josh Silver [via caelidh ]
Broadband will soon deliver nearly all television, radio, phone service ââ¬â and of course the Web ââ¬â to most Americans. This transition is our big chance to do an end run around 24-7 lapdog journalism, low-brow entertainment, celebrity gossip, and rampant commercialism that has left the public in a fog of Brangelina, windbag pundits, sound bytes and little knowledge about whatââ¬â¢s happening in the world and what our elected officials actually think or stand for.
If we lose this net neutrality battle, we lose the greatest opportunity of our lifetimes to get critical journalism and diverse media into living rooms across the nation, as the largest cable and phone companies turn the Internet into modern cable TV: they control what you see and how much it costs.
This is an international issue. In some countries it is addressed better than others. (In France, for example, I understand that the layers are separated, and my colleague in Paris attributes getting 24Mb/s net, a phone with free international dialing and digital TV for 30euros/month to the resulting competition.) In the US, there have been threats to the concept, and a wide discussion about what to do. That is why, though I have written and spoken on this many times, I blog about it now.
[Note: This is the blog of Tim Berners-Lee, who created the World Wide Web]
–ME “Liz” Strauss
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