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Save the Internet
"The internet has was designed to be an open platform where anyone can create a website and any information can pass through a connection. If big business starts to be selective about what can pass through it will be like when the FCC cracked down on early radio expression and it wasn't long before only commercial radio existed.
The internet needs to stay neutral and not give certain files preference." "The internet has was designed to be an open platform where anyone can create a website and any information can pass through a connect... more -
Tisk, Tisk, Tisk! What The FCC Is Doing Wrong Now
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is holding an open meeting today, giving students of public policy a chance to observe an especially egregious arm of the regulatory state. If you want to see what's wrong with Washington, the FCC is as good a place as any to start looking: Since its birth in 1934, it has manifested three fundamental problems ...
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An interesting editorial about how the FCC does, or doesn't, act in the public's best interest. The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is holding an open meeting today, giving students of public policy a chance to observe an ... more -
Secret plan to kill internet by 2012 leaked?
could be a hoax or it could be true. ive got parts of the story, follow link for the whole article.
alot of you commented on the boobs,"AtheneWins" is not the greatest source for this matter, but this video is related to the discussion. the story is just "accompanied by a You Tube clip" (the video) pertaining to the story.
Paul Joseph Watson / Prison Planet | June 11, 2008
ISP’s have resolved to restrict the Internet to a TV-like subscription model where users will be forced to pay to visit selected corporate websites by 2012, while others will be blocked, according to a leaked report. Despite some people dismissing the story as a hoax, the wider plan to kill the traditional Internet and replace it with a regulated and controlled Internet 2 is manifestly provable.
"Bell Canada and TELUS (formerly owned by Verizon) employees officially confirm that by 2012 ISP’s all over the globe will reduce Internet access to a TV-like subscription model, only offering access to a small standard amount of commercial sites and require extra fees for every other site you visit. These ‘other’ sites would then lose all their exposure and eventually shut down, resulting in what could be seen as the end of the Internet," warns a report that has spread like wildfire across the web over the last few days.
The article, which is accompanied by a You Tube clip, states that Time Magazine writer "Dylan Pattyn" has confirmed the information and is about to release a story - and that the move to effectively shut down the web could come as soon as 2010.
Watch the clip.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t89WwcsOj9U&...
People have raised questions about the report’s accuracy because the claims are not backed by another source, only the "promise" that a Time Magazine report is set to confirm the rumor. Until such a report emerges many have reserved judgment or outright dismissed the story as a hoax.
The first steps in a move to charge for every e mail sent have already been taken. Under the pretext of eliminating spam, Bill Gates and other industry chieftains have proposed Internet users buy credit stamps which denote how many e mails they will be able to send. This of course is the death knell for political newsletters and mailing lists.
The New York Times reported that "America Online and Yahoo, two of the world’s largest providers of e-mail accounts, are about to start using a system that gives preferential treatment to messages from companies that pay from 1/4 of a cent to a penny each to have them delivered. The senders must promise to contact only people who have agreed to receive their messages, or risk being blocked entirely.".
The original Internet will then be turned into a mass surveillance database and marketing tool. The Nation magazine reported in 2006 that, "Verizon, Comcast, Bell South and other communications giants are developing strategies that would track and store information on our every move in cyberspace in a vast data-collection and marketing system, the scope of which could rival the National Security Agency. According to white papers now being circulated in the cable, telephone and telecommunications industries, those with the deepest pockets–corporations, special-interest groups and major advertisers–would get preferred treatment. Content from these providers would have first priority on our computer and television screens, while information seen as undesirable, such as peer-to-peer communications, could be relegated to a slow lane or simply shut out."
Over the past few years, a chorus of propaganda intended to demonize the Internet and further lead it down a path of strict control has spewed forth from numerous establishment organs:
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could be a hoax or it could be true. ive got parts of the story, follow link for the whole article. ... more -
A free and self-governing people
Journalist Bill Moyers address the National Conference for Media Reform in Minneapolis, June 7, 2008. Presented by FreePress.net
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Dan Rather's speech on free press
Dan Rather addresses the National Conference for Media Reform in Minneapolis, on June 7, 2008.
He talks about freedom of the press, big media, and news coverage. Dan Rather addresses the National Conference for Media Reform in Minneapolis, on June 7, 2008. ... more -
Comcast beginning 'net neutrality' testing
Comcast will begin testing what the cable concern has described as a "protocol agnostic" approach to managing bandwidth traffic during high-peak periods, Comcast said Tuesday.
Selected customers in Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, and Warrenton, Virginia, are expected to receive e-mails on Wednesday highlighting the program. The 30-day tests are expected to begin Thursday.
"Unless you are an extremely heavy user of internet resources (which is not likely) you will not notice any change to your internet experience during this test," Mitch Bowling, general manager of Comcast online services says in the e-mail. "At the busiest times of the day on our network (which could occur at any time), those very few disproportionately heavy users, who are doing things like conducting numerous or continuous large file transfers, may experience slightly longer response times for some online activities, until the period of network congestion ends."
The move is designed to set aside complaints that the Philadelphia-based company has been throttling BitTorrent data and other peer-to-peer traffic to manage congestion. Comcast's practices have been the subject of hearings before the Federal Communications Commission, which is set to announce new rules concerning the concept of net neutrality.
Comcast announced in March it was switching to a new network management technique by the end of the year for managing bandwidth use and congestion. The company said it was partnering with BitTorrent Inc. of San Francisco, to develop a neutral traffic-management protocol.
Given that peer-to-peer users are the biggest users of bandwidth, it remains to be seen who in practice the new tests would disrupt during congestion periods. For now, rules by the FCC give ISPs broad authority to manage traffic flows, although that might soon change.
Comcast's testing follows the announcement by rival Time Warner Cable, which is to begin tests with customers on Thursday with metered access to bandwidth under a plan in which bigger users would pay more. Comcast has also publicly endorsed a metering plan, but has not roled out one.
Comcast has come under the ire of many digital rights groups for its network management practices. And last week, hackers took out their revenge against Comcast and redirected the Comcast.net homepage for several hours. The FBI is probing the incident. No arrests have been made. Comcast will begin testing what the cable concern has described as a "protocol agnostic" approach to managing bandwidth traffic during... more -
Time Warner Cable tries metering Internet use
NEW YORK (AP) — You're used to paying extra if you use up your cell phone minutes, but will you be willing to pay extra if your home computer goes over its Internet allowance?
Time Warner Cable Inc. customers — and, later, others — may have to, if the company's test of metered Internet access is successful.
On Thursday, new Time Warner Cable Internet subscribers in Beaumont, Texas, will have monthly allowances for the amount of data they upload and download. Those who go over will be charged $1 per gigabyte, a Time Warner Cable executive told the Associated Press.
Metered billing is an attempt to deal fairly with Internet usage, which is very uneven among Time Warner Cable's subscribers, said Kevin Leddy, Time Warner Cable's executive vice president of advanced technology.
Just 5 percent of the company's subscribers take up half of the capacity on local cable lines, Leddy said. Other cable Internet service providers report a similar distribution.
"We think it's the fairest way to finance the needed investment in the infrastructure," Leddy said. NEW YORK (AP) — You're used to paying extra if you use up your cell phone minutes, but will you be willing to pay extra if your home c... more -
2012: The year the Internet as we know it dies...
06/01/2008 - Every significant Internet provider around the globe is currently in talks with access and content providers to transform the internet into a television-like medium: no more freedom, you pay for a small commercial package of sites you can visit and you'll have to pay for seperate subscriptions for every site that's not in the package 06/01/2008 - Every significant Internet provider around the globe is currently in talks with access and content providers to transform... more
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Corporations want to end Net Neutrality
Corporations want to turn the internet into something like TV. This is more reason why I hate corporations.
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Virgin Media puts even more restrictions on heavy users
Virgin Media adopts even more extreme connection throttling for it's most active users. Is this a fair bandwidth management strategy, or are Virgin Media punishing its customers from using all of what they've been solved? Virgin Media adopts even more extreme connection throttling for it's most active users. Is this a fair bandwidth management strategy, ... more
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Freenet 0.7.0 "Darknet" released!
"Freenet is software designed to allow the free exchange of information over the Internet without fear of censorship, or reprisal. To achieve this Freenet makes it very difficult for adversaries to reveal the identity, either of the person publishing, or downloading content"
"I worry about my child and the Internet all the time, even though she's too young to have logged on yet. Here's what I worry about. I worry that 10 or 15 years from now, she will come to me and say 'Daddy, where were you when they took freedom of the press away from the Internet?'"
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Virgin CEO: Net neutrality is 'bollocks'
After only being on the job a month, the new Virgin Media CEO lashes out at Net Neutrality. He's confirming that Virgin will be charging websites (like current.com) a premium for the type of access that their viewers have to the site... the fast lane, or the slow lane. After only being on the job a month, the new Virgin Media CEO lashes out at Net Neutrality. He's confirming that Virgin will be chargi... more
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Big Media Continues to Fight Against Net Neutraility
Written by Jonathan Rintels; Huffingtonpost.com
Posted March 16, 2008 | 05:49 PM (EST)
"Last week's opening of Hulu and the MPAA's vehement denunciation of net neutrality are intimately related, a double-barreled shot aimed at the heart of the open Internet. With its back-to-back denunciation of Net Neutrality and its launch of Hulu as its anointed site for streaming TV, films, and video, Big Media's goal is nothing less than to turn today's wide open Internet into a closed system more akin to cable television. The likely result: as we've documented in cable, independent and diverse voices and their content will be inexorably marginalized or silenced." Written by Jonathan Rintels; Huffingtonpost.com Posted March 16, 2008 | 05:49 PM (EST) ... more -
The Creation of the Universe...I mean, the Internet
Cool video about the creation of the internet and the issue of net neutrality.
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Comcast Sends Its Regrets
Comcast, the nation's largest cable company, has opted to sit out tomorrow's Federal Communications Commission hearing on broadband network management practices at Stanford, Portfolio.com has learned.
As a result, the company will not face one of its most prominent critics, Lawrence Lessig, the iconoclastic Stanford law professor and "free culture" advocate who is set to give introductory remarks.
Although invited by the F.C.C. to discuss yesterday's announcement that it is developing a file-sharing "Bill of Rights" with peer-to-peer company Pando, Comcast has declined to attend the hearing. Comcast, the nation's largest cable company, has opted to sit out tomorrow's Federal Communications Commission hearing on broadband ne... more -
Hackers hijack entire Web
Seeking to make money from mistyped website names, some of the United States' largest ISPs are instead creating gaping security holes in the web's largest websites, including eBay, PayPal, Google and Yahoo.
The ISPs are making it possible for hackers to turn any website into a source of viruses, phishing attacks and other malware.
The massive vulnerability introduced by Earthlink and Comcast was quietly and quickly patched on Friday, after IOActive security researcher Dan Kaminsky reported the vulnerability to Earthlink and its technology partner, a British ad company called Barefruit.
"The entire security of the internet is now dependent on some random-ass server run by some British company," Kaminsky said.
Starting in August 2006, Earthlink changed how it handled the process of turning requests for a domain name such as Youtube.com into the numeric IP address of the site's server, hiring Barefruit to help it make money from this system.
The news of the massive security breach created by ISPs subverting internet protocol for profit comes just two days after the Federal Communication Commission held a hand-wringing public forum at Stanford University over whether it should punish Comcast its violation of a standard internet practices by sending fake packets to its users in order to reduce the amount of bandwidth peer-to-peer applications use.
Kaminsky is demoing the hole publicly on Saturday at the Toorcon security conference in Seattle.
Kaminsky, a well-respected security expert, is perhaps best known for cleverly proving that a spyware rootkit Sony included on music CDs infected computers in more than half a million computer networks in 2005.
The hole was made possible by ISPs subverting the Domain Name System or DNS, which translates website names into numeric addresses.
When users visit a website like Wired.com, the DNS system translates the domain name into an IP address such as http://72.246.49.48. But if a particular site does not exist, the DNS server tells the browser that there's no such listing and a simple error message should be displayed.
But using Barefruit's technology, Earthlink instead intercepts that Non-Existent Domain (NXDOMAIN) response and sends the IP address of Barefruit's ad server as the answer. When the browser visits that page, the user sees a list of suggestions for what site the user might have actually wanted, along with a search box and Yahoo ads.
The rub comes when a user is asking for a nonexistent subdomain of a real website, such as http://webmale.google.com, where the subdomain webmale doesn't exist (unlike, say, mail in mail.google.com). In this case, the Earthlink/Barefruit ads appear in the browser and the title bar indicates that it's the official Google site. Seeking to make money from mistyped website names, some of the United States' largest ISPs are instead creating gaping security holes ... more -
What Is Net Neutrality?
This video that explains why discrimination on the Internet is a problem and will continue to be as long as net neutrality rules are not enforced. This video that explains why discrimination on the Internet is a problem and will continue to be as long as net neutrality rules are n... more
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Save The Internet!
SavetheInternet.com Coalition is more than a million people who have banded together with thousands of non-profit organizations, businesses and bloggers to protect Internet freedom.
The Coalition believes that the Internet is a crucial engine for economic growth and free speech. They are working together to urge Congress to preserve Network Neutrality, the First Amendment of the Internet, which ensures that the Internet remains open to new ideas, innovation and progress.
SavetheInternet.com Coalition is more than a million people who have banded together with thousands of non-profit organizations, busin... more -
Take back the internet from big media - quiet crusaders
Bearing video cameras, laptops and cellphones, a small army of young activists flooded into a recent federal meeting in protest.
Members of public-interest group Free Press weren't there to support a presidential candidate or decry global warming. The tech-savvy hundreds came to the Federal Communications Commission's hearing at Harvard Law School last month to push new rules for the Internet.
For the first time, Congress and the FCC are debating wide-reaching Web regulations and policies that would determine how much control cable and telecommunications companies would have over the Internet. The issue has given rise to a new political constituency raised on text messaging and social networking and relies on e-mail blasts and online video clips in its advocacy. Bearing video cameras, laptops and cellphones, a small army of young activists flooded into a recent federal meeting in protest. ... more -
Comcast filled the seats of the Net Neutrality case
This is weak sauce, man. Comcast filled the seats at the hearing to support them against net neutrality. Comcast=little devil cartoons This is weak sauce, man. Comcast filled the seats at the hearing to support them against net neutrality. Comcast=little devil cartoo... more
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