Internet neutrality

Overview
From the Jeff Chester news item linked below: "The nation's largest telephone and cable companies are crafting an alarming set of strategies that would transform the free, open and nondiscriminatory Internet of today to a privately run and branded service that would charge a fee for virtually everything we do online."

Reference

 * Network neutrality legislation at SourceWatch
 * Network neutrality legislation at SourceWatch

Projects

 * Center for Digital Democracy
 * savetheinternet.com

Blog Entries

 * 2007-08-21 Comcast Is Starting The Tiered Internet.. Whether We Like It or Not (see also Comcast)
 * 2006-08-19 Net Neutrality... another oversimplification: this raises some good ideas
 * 2006-07-09 Subject: Foe of net neutrality clearly explains his argument
 * 2006-07-08 The Golden Age of the Internet (Jerry Pournelle)
 * 2006-06-09 A turning point in the history of the Internet: extensively quotes, "inventor of the internet", and adds commentary from Lawrence Lessig and
 * 2006-05-24 Save the Net
 * 2006-05-15 Relevant entries on isen.blog:
 * Cartoonist Scott Kurtz joins Network Neutrality fight
 * The Planet Below is not one of my Preferred Customers
 * REM joins Network Neutrality effort
 * Telcos: "Trust us"
 * Contest: How many lies can you spot?
 * 2006-01-24 The Broadband Battle: Round I: mega-media corporations are working to control what content you view, which services you use online, and whether others can see the content you create.

News

 * 2006-05-14 High-Definition Video Could Choke Internet (slashdot)
 * 2006-05-11 Network neutrality update: more bills, more conflicts of interest by Conor Kenny
 * 2006-05-08 The Web We Love is Endangered by Annalee Newitz, AlterNet
 * 2006-02-01 The End of the Internet? by Jeff Chester
 * 2004-12-29 Brand X by Annalee Newitz, AlterNet: some earlier wrangling which may be related

Miscellaneous
Some of these links may belong here, and some may belong elsewhere...
 * 2006-08-21 The Google Ployâ€”A Revolution?: apparently Google's free wiring of Mountain View, CA for WiFi was what sparked the whole debate over neutrality
 * 2006-08-03 Vint Cerf to Senate: Don't Wait; Enact Net Neutrality! by Vinton Cerf
 * 2006-07-06 Nuts and Bolts of Network Neutrality by Edward W. Felten
 * 2006-06-29 If we build it they will come: It's time to own our own last mile by Robert X. Cringely
 * 2006-06-22 Net Neutered: Why don't they tell us ending Net Neutrality might kill BitTorrent? by Robert X. Cringely
 * 2006-06-21 Net Neutrality: This is serious by Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the web
 * (no date) Summary:$200 Billion Broadband Scandal by Bruce Kushnick