Articles tagged "net neutrality"

Without fast service, rural communities are starting to grow their own.

Recent victories over Hollywood's Stop Online Piracy Act have reinvigorated the fight against a corporate takeover of the internet. But throughout this ongoing crusade to keep the 'net democratic and free, one might ask: how did it even get that way

_Alan would be Turing in his grave right now._ h3. ONE: Netherlands goes net neutral ("BBC":http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-13886440) h3. ZERO: One billion people visited Google in May, record is set for most people to visit a site in one

The inaugural Sarkozy-led "e-G8 Forum":http://motherboard.tv/2011/5/24/at-e-g8-wild-silicon-valley-bigwigs-and-civilized-european-fogeys-make-plans-for-your-internet just closed in Paris, with vague pronouncements about how the world's biggest govern…

Nicolas Sarkozy has organized a 2-day "e-G8 Summit," bringing together some of the world's most powerful companies, in an attempt to address the unchecked growth of the web. "Critics are claiming":http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/0,1518,764…

Remember "COICA":http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Combating_Online_Infringement_and_Counterfeits_Act, that nauseating piece of legislation proposed last year that sought to remake the Internet in the interest of protecting all those poor, mistreated copy…

h3. ZERO: Dropbox will turn your private files over to the government ("Business Insider":http://www.businessinsider.com/dropbox-updates-security-terms-of-service-to-say-it-can-decrpyt-files-if-the-government-asks-it-to-2011-4) h3. ONE: Web creato…

I’ve long subscribed to the philosophy that this existence basically widdles down to two things: energy and information. The issue with energy is obvious though its solution might not be so straightforward. Information is more conceptual. It comes do…

We all know that as technology empowers us to do more, it carries with it all manner of problems. But one of our biggest pickles tends to slip right by us: We're not free. So argues Tim Wu, law professor, author of "_The Master Switch_":http://www…

But in addressing the elephant in the room, she argued that the government's fight against Wikileaks had nothing to do with Internet freedom. "Fundamentally, the Wikileaks incident began with an act of theft," she said. "Government documents were sto…