Berners-Lee warns ISPs on net neutrality. The inventor of the world wide web, Sir Tim Berners-Lee, has warned internet service providers (ISPs) that plans for a "two-speed" internet go against the principles that have let the net grow so rapidly in the past two decades. "Best practices should also include the neutrality of the net," Berners-Lee told a round table in Westminster on Wednesday morning, convened by the communications minister Ed Vaizey. Content companies, represented by Facebook, Skype, the BBC and Yahoo, squared up to ISPs, with input from consumer representatives including the Open Rights Group, the Consumers' Association and the communications regulator Ofcom. Jim Killock of the Open Rights Group, who was representing consumer interests at the meeting, said afterwards that he was concerned about the direction the debate was going: "The potential for something going terribly wrong is absolutely there.
How Net Neutrality Lost The Tech Giants. Join Etsy in Fighting for an Open Internet | Etsy News Blog. The Internet is built on the principle of openness. For the price of an Internet connection, anyone can spread new ideas or start a business — even spark a new industry. It is this democratic access that makes the Internet so revolutionary. It is what allows Etsy sellers to compete with much bigger and more established brands. It is what allowed Etsy to grow from a tiny company in a Brooklyn apartment to a global platform that hosts over one million sellers worldwide. Today, that access — also known as net neutrality — is under threat.
In the US, FCC Chairman Wheeler recently proposed rules that would undermine the openness that has defined the Internet since its inception. The proposed rules would allow big companies to cut deals with broadband providers for faster access to consumers, putting them in the “Internet fast lane” and relegating the rest of us to the “slow lane.” Etsy’s continued growth depends on equal access to consumers. The forces against us are strong and very powerful. Supporting an Open Internet » The Kickstarter Blog. Kickstarter was built on the foundation of an open Internet. We — like Twitter, Wikipedia, and everything awesome on the Web — would not exist without it. The more than 65,000 (and counting!) Creative ideas that have been brought to life with Kickstarter depend on a free and open Internet. On Sunday I wrote a Washington Post opinion piece sharing Kickstarter's thoughts on how important Net Neutrality is to the future of the Internet, and today we filed an official comment with the FCC.
As citizens of the Internet and believers in innovation, we’re proud for Kickstarter to wave this flag. We hope others will also voice their opposition to get the attention of the FCC before they make a decision this fall. It’s easy to get lost in the minutiae and cynicism of the Net Neutrality debate. As John Oliver so brilliantly implored us to do, we can all share our feelings with the FCC directly on their site, or through the Electronic Frontier Foundation’s tool.
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