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The following are the latest developments in the realm of proposed legislation in the "net neutrality" issue...
The Save the Internet coalition -- which includes advocacy groups on both the left and the right that support strong network neutrality language -- submitted 1 million statements of support for their position. National Journal - Washington, DC, USA
In a research brief published by the World Policy Institute's Global Information Society Project, K.A. Taipale, executive director of the Center for Advanced Studies in Science & Technology Policy, asks whether imposing strict net neutrality regulation on telecommunications providers could put public safety and economic recovery at risk in times of national emergency.
Is Net Neutrality Bad for National Preparedness?
As telecommunications reform legislation winds its way through the Congress, "net neutrality" has emerged as the latest beltway buzzword and the subject of a contentious lobbying war between large internet content providers such as Google, Microsoft, Ebay, Yahoo, and Amazon on one side and the major broadband service providers like ATT, Bell South, Qwest, and Verizon on the other over who is going to bear the cost of distributing bandwidth-intensive content and how best to encourage innovation and required investment in new higher-speed broadband networks.
SEE: http://cas-research-brief-0614.info/
In PDF FORMAT U.S. Newswire - Washington, DC, USA
Craig Newmark discusses how the legislation passed by the U.S. House of Representatives would efficiently remove net neutrality, while Mike McCurry writes about how the big companies should pay their fair share for the physical upgrade of the internet.
Craig Newmark
In favorMike McCurry Against Slashdot - USA
So why are musicians pissed off? Because net neutrality "means they should have the unfettered ability to make their work available to potential fans without undue interference from corporate gatekeepers" (SaveTheInternet.com).
Download a new tune by independent artists while you still can!!! savetheinternet.com Download the MP3 file (Sort of a rip-off of "Mr. Tambourine Man" originally by Bob Dylan)
Net neutrality" now has an anthem says pcmag.com's Bary Alyssa Johnson " -- if you can call it that. Taking the net neutrality debate to a whole new level, songwriters Jill Sobule, Kay Hanley, and Michelle Lewis have jumped on the SaveTheInternet.com "band" wagon with their new single. (Keep Reading) Gearlog - New York, NY, USA
Our own VoIP blogger Russell Shaw has decided to rebut my position on Net neutrality. ... I'm proposing exactly what the true spirit of Net neutrality should be. ZDNet - USA
... Applying his perspective to the net neutrality debate, George ups the debate... If a Web site offers content- even content stored on a caching server rather than entirely through the choke-hold-prone public Internet, it should be available to every Internet user with a connection that has the physical capacity to display that content. ZDNet - USA
The First Amendment of the Internet -- the governing principle of net neutrality, which prevents telecommunications corporations from rigging the web was voted down Truthdig - United States
The information superhighway may add a toll road after the House of Representatives defeated "network neutrality" legislation, but open Internet access supporters including Google Inc. said Friday the battle is not over yet. Inside Bay Area - Oakland, CA, USA
The rejection of the net neutrality bill in US courts has come as a severe blow to Google, eBay , Amazon and many others who were lobbying for the cause. Moneycontrol Tech Blog - Mumbai, MH, India
The Net Neutrality amendment contained language that would demand communication companies providing Internet services to treat all data passing through their ... On Thursday, Congress turned down the "Net Neutrality Amendment" to the Communications Opportunity, Promotion, and Enhancement Act (COPE Act) 269-152. Blogger News Network - USA
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