Net Neutrality
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Add New Case Please report cases of operators restricting or throttling access to content, services or applications. For a more precise description of what to report, check our guidelines . On the Internet, you decide what you do, right? Not anymore! Large telecommunication providers want to control what you do online.
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Long Live the Web: A Call for Continued Open Standards and Neutrality: Scientific American
Feature Articles | Technology See Inside The Web is critical not merely to the digital revolution but to our continued prosperity—and even our liberty. Like democracy itself, it needs defending Image: Illustration by John Hendrix In Brief The principle of universality allows the Web to work no matter what hardware, software, network connection or language you use and to handle information of all types and qualities.
Nedroid These sites have "blacked out" Wednesday, Jan. 18 in protest of the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA). It makes it just a little bit easier to imagine what the web could look like if some of the measures from the proposed bill were to become law. Click here to view this gallery. Today, many popular websites are going “dark” in protest of Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA).
This Is the Internet After SOPA [PICS]
I’m sure you’ve heard by now that SOPA is bad and would ruin the Internet, but have you actually read the bill? If not, it’s worth reading, for two reasons. First, if you are going to oppose a bill, you should know exactly what you’re opposing, not just the vague principle behind it. Second, it’ll provide you with a valuable insight: that these bills are written in an attempt to obscure the truth. First off, I’m going to qualify that I’m not a lawyer. However, I am a programmer, and that’s made me pretty good at unraveling spaghetti code.
Why SOPA Is Dangerous
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Workshop Participants Carl Malamud (Public.Resource.Org), Tim O'Reilly (O'Reilly Media), Greg Elin (Sunlight Foundation), Micah Sifry (Sunlight Foundation), Adrian Holovaty (EveryBlock), Daniel X. O'Neil (EveryBlock), Michal Migurski (Stamen Design), Shawn Allen (Stamen Design), Josh Tauberer (GovTrack.US), Lawrence Lessig (Stanford), Dan Newman (MapLight.Org), John Geraci (outside.in), Edwin Bender (Inst. for Money), Tom Steinberg (My Society), David Moore (Participatory Politics), Donny Shaw (Participatory Politics), JL Needham (Google), Joel Hardi (Public.Resource.Org), Ethan Zuckerman (Berkman), Greg Palmer (NewCo), Jamie Taylor (MetaWeb), Bradley Horowitz (Yahoo), Zack Exley (New Organizing Institute), Karl Fogel (Question Copyright), Michael Dale (Metavid), Joseph Lorenzo Hall (UC Berkeley), Marcia Hofmann (EFF), David Orban (Metasocial Web), Will Fitzpatrick (Omidyar Network), Aaron Swartz (Open Library)
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Is your browser configuration rare or unique? If so, web sites may be able to track you, even if you limit or disable cookies. Panopticlick tests your browser to see how unique it is based on the information it will share with sites it visits. Click below and you will be given a uniqueness score, letting you see how easily identifiable you might be as you surf the web.Anfang des Jahres 2007 ist der Band ” Freie Netze. Freies Wissen. ” erschienen und seither ist eine Menge passiert. Wie in diesem Blog dokumentiert sind eine Reihe der für Linz vorgeschlagenen Projekte inzwischen umgesetzt oder haben weitere Initiativen angestoßen, die weit über die damaligen Vorschläge hinausgehen (vgl. z.B. die Zwischenbilanz ” Zwei Jahre Freie Netze. Freies Wissen. ” sowie die jüngste Studie zur ” Open Commons Region Linz “).
Freie Netze. Freies Wissen. - Freiheit vor Ort - Handbuch kommunale Netzpolitik
Freie Netze. Freies Wissen. - Das Buch
Der Band “Freie Netze. Freies Wissen.” ist Anfang 2007 im Echomedia Verlag im Vorfeld des Europäischen Kulturhauptstadtjahres Linz 2009 erscheinen. Ziel war es, die diversen Potentiale digitaler Technologien für freien Zugang zu Wissen auf kommunaler Ebene auszuloten. Gleichzeitig sollte das Linzer Beispiel zu Konkretheit zwingen. Neben neun Kapiteln zu verschiedenen Themenbereichen finden sich eine Reihe von Interviews mit ExpertInnen und PraktikerInnen sowie insgesamt 24 Projektvorschläge zur Umsetzung in Linz im Buch.== Free Culture / Free Content ==
You may redistribute, copy, or otherwise reuse/remix this book provided that you do so for non-commercial purposes and credit Professor Lessig.
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Posted by Alan Davidson, Google director of public policy and Tom Tauke, Verizon executive vice president of public affairs, policy, and communications The original architects of the Internet got the big things right. By making the network open, they enabled the greatest exchange of ideas in history. By making the Internet scalable, they enabled explosive innovation in the infrastructure. It is imperative that we find ways to protect the future openness of the Internet and encourage the rapid deployment of broadband. Verizon and Google are pleased to discuss the principled compromise our companies have developed over the last year concerning the thorny issue of “network neutrality.”
Net Neutrality
Net Neutrality 101 | Save the Internet
Net Neutrality 101 When we log onto the Internet, we take lots of things for granted. We assume that we'll be able to access whatever Web site we want, whenever we want to go there. We assume that we can use any feature we like -- watching online video, listening to podcasts, searching, e-mailing and instant messaging -- anytime we choose. We assume that we can attach devices like wireless routers, game controllers or extra hard drives to make our online experience better. What makes all these assumptions possible is "Network Neutrality," the guiding principle that preserves the free and open Internet.ONI's main filtering map shows the states and regions where each type of filtering ONI studies takes place. Our social media map serves as an easy visual guide to the states and regions where filtering of five major social media sites occurs. For a detailed look at when and where YouTube has been filtered since 2006, check out YouTube Censored: A Recent History , ONI's interactive global timeline.
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This extraordinary book explains the engine that has catapulted the Internet from backwater to ubiquity—and reveals that it is sputtering precisely because of its runaway success. With the unwitting help of its users, the generative Internet is on a path to a lockdown, ending its cycle of innovation—and facilitating unsettling new kinds of control. IPods, iPhones, Xboxes, and TiVos represent the first wave of Internet-centered products that can’t be easily modified by anyone except their vendors or selected partners. These “tethered appliances” have already been used in remarkable but little-known ways: car GPS systems have been reconfigured at the demand of law enforcement to eavesdrop on the occupants at all times, and digital video recorders have been ordered to self-destruct thanks to a lawsuit against the manufacturer thousands of miles away.
:: The Future of the Internet — And How to Stop It
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