WIRED: We’re About to Lose Net Neutrality — And the Internet as We Know It
Net neutrality is a dead man walking. The execution date isn’t set, but it could be days, or months (at best). And since net neutrality is the principle forbidding huge telecommunications companies from treating users, websites, or apps differently — say, by letting some work better than others over their pipes — the dead man walking isn’t some abstract or far-removed principle just for wonks: It affects the internet as we all know it.
Once upon a time, companies like AT&T, Comcast, Verizon, and others declared a war on the internet’s foundational principle: that its networks should be “neutral” and users don’t need anyone’s permission to invent, create, communicate, broadcast, or share online. The neutral and level playing field provided by permissionless innovation has empowered all of us with the freedom to express ourselves and innovate online without having to seek the permission of a remote telecom executive.
But today, that freedom won’t survive much longer if a federal court — the second most powerful court in the nation behind the Supreme Court, the DC Circuit — is set to strike down the nation’s net neutrality law, a rule adopted by the Federal Communications Commission in 2010. Some will claim the new solution “splits the baby” in a way that somehow doesn’t kill net neutrality and so we should be grateful. But make no mistake: Despite eight years of public and political activism by multitudes fighting for freedom on the internet, a court decision may soon take it away.
How did we get here?
more -> http://www.wired.com/opinion/2013/11/so-the-internets-about-to-lose-its-net-neutrality/
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a lot of folks here in DU are pimping for her.
To the tune of cops:
Bad choice, bad choice, what ya gonna do when it comes to you, bad choice bad choice.....
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I've been seeing this term in a lot of posts.
1. No one was paying attention
2. A few people with the ability extrapolate long term event situations (no this is not a trick, most of the population thinks short term gain and can't perceive long term effects) are called tinfoil hat wearing hair on fire Democrats and cease their warnings. Time passes and people ask "How did we get here?"
3. Most of the population is asleep.
4. All the lighthouse keepers got fed up with all the bullshit raining on them and left.
c. Naaaa, I must be smokin dope.
But I do like the "how did we get here?" part. Sometimes reflection reveals secrets in plain sight.
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...(the perception) of Net Neutrality.
- Net Neutrality assumes the obeying of the law by the government.
Could we see a new form of communication based on the loss of net neutrality that functions just as effectively? One can dream but a free internet did affect the last elections and lo and behold, they're taking that away from the populace. Someone's going to come up with something! That's what we're good at. I feel confident and at the same time starting to feel like we're living in a soon to become 3rd world nation.
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Wall Street Bailouts, "Sequesters" to cut Social Programs, Military Spending,....
Where does it end?
[font size=4]Hold on to your dreams, suckers,
cause we're TAKING everything else!
Hahahahahahaha![/font]
no, not Al Gore , but ARPA, the Advanced Research Projects Agency. At one time it was known as ARPAnet.
