Hands Off the Internet

http://www.handsoff.org/hoti_docs/aboutus/

Hands Off The Internet believes that the best way to avoid burdensome and unnecessary regulation and mandates is by ensuring that market forces deliver the benefits that only fair competition can bring to the American consumer - maximum choice in supplier, content and technology.

Filed under networkneutrality by kyarmosh Added 05/19/2006

Save the Internet : Frequently Asked Questions

http://www.savetheinternet.com/

This is about Internet freedom. “Network Neutrality” — the First Amendment of the Internet — ensures that the public can view the smallest blog just as easily as the largest corporate Web site by preventing Internet companies like AT&T from rigging the playing field for only the highest-paying sites.

Filed under networkneutrality by kyarmosh Added 05/19/2006

Politicos propose new action...trality | Tech News on ZDNet

http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9588_22-6074108...

Called the “Internet Freedom and Nondiscrimination Act,” the bill is designed to “provide an insurance policy for Internet users against being harmed by broadband network operators abusing their market power to discriminate against content and service providers,” Sensenbrenner said in a statement.

Filed under networkneutrality by kyarmosh Added 05/19/2006

Hardware firms oppose Net ne...ty laws | Tech News on ZDNet

http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9588_22-6073629...

Some of the largest hardware makers in the world, including 3M, Cisco Systems, Corning and Qualcomm, sent a letter to Congress on Wednesday firmly opposing new laws mandating Net neutrality—the concept that broadband providers must never favor some Web sites or Internet services over others.

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Net neutrality missing from ...om bill | Tech News on ZDNet

http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1035_22-6067153...

Absent from the legislation are any regulations related to “Net neutrality,” also known as network neutrality, that companies such as Amazon.com, Google, Yahoo, Intel and Microsoft have been lobbying for during the past few months. Instead of handing the Federal Communications Commission extensive powers to police violations—an idea defeated in a House of Representatives committee vote last week—the FCC would merely be required to prepare annual reports on any problems.

Filed under networkneutrality by kyarmosh Added 05/19/2006

The Raw Story | Sensenbrenne...ay to play’ net access

http://www.rawstory.com/news/2006/Sensenbr...

H.R. 5417, the “Internet Freedom and Nondiscrimination Act of 2006,” is aimed at maintaining “competitive and nondiscriminatory access to the Internet.”

Filed under networkneutrality by kyarmosh Added 05/19/2006

Free Press : Rep. Markey Issues Statement on Net Neutrality

http://www.freepress.net/news/15574

The Bell companies want to exert control over the Internet. They say they do not intend to block access to any website, but they do want to start charging content providers and web-based businesses for accessing high speed lanes on the Internet. They say all they want to do is find new ways of offering some consumers more services and making more money.

Filed under networkneutrality by kyarmosh Added 05/19/2006

Whose Internet is it, anyway? | csmonitor.com

http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/0324/p08s02-...

But could Google, a tiny startup only a few years ago, have sprung up in an environment where the established search engines of the day could pay more to buy premium service? YouTube is a fledgling online company that already transmits some 30 million videos per day and is attracting attention. Would it get fair treatment if big TV and movie corporations can pay to have their video get special service?

Filed under networkneutrality by kyarmosh Added 03/23/2006

Om Malik on Broadband : » N...Optional Feature of Internet

http://gigaom.com/2006/02/06/net-neutralit...

Filed under networkneutrality by kyarmosh Added 02/07/2006

The End of the Internet?

http://www.thenation.com/doc/20060213/chester

The nation`s largest telephone and cable companies are crafting an alarming set of strategies that would transform the free, open and nondiscriminatory Internet of today to a privately run and branded service that would charge a fee for virtually everything we do online.

Filed under networkneutrality by kyarmosh Added 02/03/2006

Susan Crawford blog :: The self-owned internet (II)

http://scrawford.blogware.com/blog/_archiv...

The telephone companies claim that they own “the network,” because they built it. But ”the internet,” as it is understood by the public, is owned by no one. I

Filed under networkneutrality by kyarmosh Added 01/26/2006

Smart Mobs: Susan Crawford on the self-owned Internet

http://www.smartmobs.com/archive/2006/01/2...

The ever-astute Susan Crawford continues to blog about the self-owned Internet, and the bogus claims by telcos and cablecos that since they own the pipes, they own the Net:

Filed under networkneutrality by kyarmosh Added 01/26/2006

Network neutrality - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_neutr...

Network neutrality is a principle of internet regulation with particular relevance to the regulation of broadband internet access.

Filed under networkneutrality by kyarmosh Added 01/25/2006

The Jeff Pulver Blog: Jeff P...Tide – Turn off BellSouth!

http://pulverblog.pulver.com/archives/0035...

Given the market power that Google has today, they are more relevant to the Internet community than BellSouth. Given that, if I were running Google today, I would choose to implement a BellSouth Boycott and stop offering access to Google to BellSouth customers and would start advertising Cox Cable service on any requests that came from BellSouth customers in their regions.

Filed under networkneutrality by kyarmosh Added 01/25/2006

The Jeff Pulver Blog: For al...Goal Tending on Net Freedoms

http://pulverblog.pulver.com/archives/0035...

But, it seems Mark is actually suggesting that the Internet Access Provider gets to determine which bits ride the fast-lane and which bits ride the breakdown lane. I

Filed under networkneutrality by kyarmosh Added 01/25/2006

Why You Should Pay to Read This Newspaper? - New York Times

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/24/business...

Right now, consumers, especially younger ones, believe that they have already paid. A family of five, and we are not naming names here, spends $4,000 a year to access broadband, cellphone and cable coverage and would be fools to pay more. Yes, pay for the pipes and what goes through them, but not a penny more

Filed under networkneutrality by kyarmosh Added 01/25/2006

The Coming Tug of War Over the Internet

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/conte...

But the nation`s largest telephone companies have a new business plan, and if it comes to pass you may one day discover that Yahoo suddenly responds much faster to your inquiries, overriding your affinity for Google. Or that Amazon`s Web site seems sluggish compared with eBay`s.

Filed under networkneutrality by kyarmosh Added 01/25/2006

IP Democracy

http://www.ipdemocracy.com/archives/2006/0...

The reality, however, is that Cuban is absolutely right. No matter how much we would like for broadband networks to have limitless capacity and totally unhindered transmissions, there is no denying the fact that sooner or later with all the video and file-sharing and advanced applications rising on the web, traffic jams will occur.

Filed under networkneutrality by kyarmosh Added 01/25/2006

Hey, Baby Bells: Information... to Be Free - New York Times

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/15/business...

Now these same carriers - led by Verizon Communications and BellSouth - want to create entirely new categories of fees that risk destroying the anyone-can-publish culture of the Internet. And they are lobbying for legislative protection of their meddling with the Internet content that runs through their pipes. These are not good ideas.

Filed under networkneutrality by kyarmosh Added 01/25/2006

Hey Baby Bells & Cable, We n...ick - www.blogmaverick.com _

http://www.blogmaverick.com/entry/12340002...

I want the telcos and the cable companies and the wireless companies to work out a way to exchange traffic at multiple quality of service levels

Filed under networkneutrality by kyarmosh Added 01/25/2006