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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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Net Neutrality Timeline | Lobbynomics
As Net Neutrality seems to be all over the place at the moment, we considered it couldn’t hurt to put together a summary timeline of the Net neutrality debate. It is obviously not exhaustive and biased in the sense that it tries to highlight some key moments in the debate. As always, click on the infographic below to see the picture as a stand alone, and click a second time on the picture to display it in full size. Update on 25 November 10:41: Following a comment by Dr.
Wikileaks ISP Anonymizes All Customer Traffic To Beat Spying | TorrentFreak
In order to neutralize Sweden’s incoming implementation of the European Data Retention Directive, Bahnhof, the Swedish ISP and host of Wikileaks, will run all customer traffic through an encrypted VPN service. Since not even Bahnhof will be able to see what its customers are doing, logging their activities will be impossible. With no logs available to complete their chain of investigation, anti-piracy companies will be very, very unhappy. In 2009, Sweden introduced the Intellectual Property Rights Enforcement Directive (IPRED). The legislation gave rights holders the authority to request the personal details of alleged copyright infringers. This prompted Jon Karlung, CEO of ISP Bahnhof , to announce that he would take measures to protect the privacy of his customers.
Netherlands first European nation to adopt net neutrality • The Register
The Dutch Parliament yesterday agreed to make the Netherlands the first nation in Europe to officially put net neutrality principles into law. The law will force ISPs and telecom operators to ensure access to all types of content, services or applications available on the network. The new telecom law has won a near unanimous vote, despite fierce opposition from telecom operators, who had been planning to charge for over-the-top services, such as Skype or WhatsApp Messenger, which bypass traditional cellular communications. Vodafone Netherlands is currently still blocking the use of Skype on its 3G mobile network.
Vaizey's net neutrality knock-out | Left Foot Forward
Do we have net neutrality today? In some ways we don’t. Certain uses of mobile networks are frowned upon, in particular voice-over-Internet-Protocol ( VoIP ) services that provide telephony over the internet like Skype are restricted on a number of mobile carriers. Vodafone blocks photo-sharing service flickr by default on its mobile broadband dongles and many ISPs use ‘traffic-shaping’ techniques to restrict the use of P2P file exchange services . Part of the reason is that mobile carriers have a restricted capacity to carry information over their networks, and build-out of additional wireless towers have been severely restricted in the UK for the past number of years.
The list begins with “cheap, small, low-power plug servers,” Mr. Moglen said. “A small device the size of a cellphone charger, running on a low-power chip. You plug it into the wall and forget about it.” Almost anyone could have one of these tiny servers, which are now produced for limited purposes but could be adapted to a full range of Internet applications, he said. “They will get very cheap, very quick,” Mr.
Eben Moglen Is Reshaping Internet With a Freedom Box - NYTimes.com
In a dramatic ruling that's sending shock waves from Washington, D.C., to Silicon Valley, a federal appeals court ruled Tuesday that the Federal Communications Commission lacks the legal authority to enforce its "network neutrality" principles. Although this ruling specifically involves a 2008 FCC sanction against Comcast ( CMCSA ), the nation's largest cable company, the decision effectively sets a precedent that severely limits the FCC's power to regulate broadband providers' "network management" practices. The ruling immediately undercuts the FCC's ability to move ahead with a new net neutrality rulemaking process, and it moves the focus of the net neutrality battle to Congress. Net neutrality advocates have long said if they lost this court case, they would move to have the principles enshrined by law. A Failed Assertion of Authority
Federal Court Strikes Down the FCC's 'Net Neutrality' Authority - DailyFinance
The debate is hot, the language heady, the metaphors many. Op-ed pages alternately bemoan "The End of the Internet" or curse "Net Neutrality Nonsense." Allegations fly about the stifling of free speech, the holding back of progress and corporate hegemony. Indeed, network neutrality has become something of a cause celebre in the digital world, pitting a slew of high-profile Internet content providers and consumer-advocacy groups against major phone and cable companies, and federal lawmakers against each other.
Moyers on America . The Net @ Risk | PBS
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The Federal Communications Commission regulates interstate and international communications by radio, television, wire, satellite and cable in all 50 states, the District of Columbia and U.S. territories. It was established by the Communications Act of 1934 and operates as an independent U.S. government agency overseen by Congress. The commission is committed to being a responsive, efficient and effective agency capable of facing the technological and economic opportunities of the new millennium. In its work, the agency seeks to capitalize on its competencies in: The agency is directed by five commissioners who are appointed by the President of the United States and confirmed by the U.S. Senate.The internet needs tougher policing, says Vodafone CEO | News | TechRadar UK
It all comes down to trust, says Colao, and self-regulation is not providing that given the regular security breaches, prevalence of piracy and 'infringements of individual rights'. "Mr Sarkozy is really right to argue that realising the full potential of the internet will also require an effective legal framework and that self-regulation will not be enough," he wrote in an open letter to the Financial Times . Restrictions incoming? His comments fly in the face of the attitude taken by web services like Facebook and Google, which have both recently talked about the importance of freedom on the web in the light of the major role the internet played in the Arab Spring.It was a high-stakes gamble gone terribly wrong. At approximately 3:30 p.m. on Thursday, Aug. 5, Federal Communications Commission Chief of Staff Edward Lazarus walked into a conference room where his boss, FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski, was meeting with public interest groups discussing federal broadband policy. The chairman turned to his chief of staff and asked him to update the room on the ongoing broadband regulation talks between Verizon ( VZ ), AT&T ( T ), Google ( GOOG ), Skype and the Open Internet Coalition, a Web industry group.