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The Open Internet: A Case for Net Neutrality
Network neutrality is the idea that your cellular, cable, or phone internet connection should treat all websites and services the same. Big companies like AT&T, Verizon, and Comcast want to treat them differently so they can charge you more depending on what you use. The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is currently debating legislation to define limits for internet service providers (ISPs). The hope is that they will keep the internet open and prevent companies from discriminating against different kinds of websites and services.
What Facebook Can Give Back To The Web
In Time’s Person of the Year 2010 article on Mark Zuckerberg, one fact shouts out to me above all others: 1 in 4 Web pages in the United States is now viewed behind the walls of Facebook. I enjoy Facebook and would be happy spending a quarter of my Web life there, if I could leave Facebook for the other 75%. But even if I log out completely, most of the Web’s most popular sites are tied to Facebook, through Share or Like or Connect buttons. Facebook is not just another Web site: it is a service that “Facebookizes” every Web site it touches, making me bring all of my friends with me, like luggage. It’s disconcerting being on a Web site that I’m used to browsing anonymously, and seeing my friends’ faces there. And so I have a holiday wish: Facebook, let me dance if I want to, let me leave my friends behind .
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
Le Monde.fr : Imprimer
Pourquoi le Web, pourtant si vaste, nous semble-t-il si facilement traversable à bord de nos navigateurs ? Est-ce grâce au seul mérite des "moteurs" de recherche ? Non.
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
Long Live the Web: A Call for Continued Open Standards and Neutrality: Scientific American
Another chapter in the Facebook vs. Lamebook , errmm, book: the social networking giant has confirmed to us that it has moved to diligently block all outgoing links to Lamebook.com , shut down the two-person company’s Facebook Page (previously at facebook.com/thelamebook ), and blocks visitors of the funny site from ‘liking’ posts to boot. For your background: Facebook wants the Austin startup to quit using the name Lamebook, deeming its activities under that name an “improper attempt to build a brand that trades off Facebook’s popularity and fame”, and filed a trademark infringement lawsuit last week. Lamebook had previously filed for declaratory judgment on its non-infringement of Facebook’s trademark, saying it operates a parody website and as such is protected under the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution. Bill McGeveran, law professor at the University of Minnesota, is just one of many to believe Lamebook actually has a pretty strong case: