Pro Net Competition: Op-Eds and Editorials
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DPI Doesn’t Kill The Open Internet, Carriers Do
March 19, 2009 - link >>Stacey Higginbotham, GIGAOM
The Free Press issued a report today that blames deep packet inspection technology for “The End of the Internet,” arguing that Internet service providers’ use of equipment that can inspect individual packets of data should raise concerns for both users and lawmakers.
Huffington Post Calls on Obama’s FCC to Silence the Right
March 18, 2009 - link >>Seton Motley, News Busters
In today’s Huffington Post is Joseph A. Palermo’s “Cheney, Rove, and Fleischer and the Importance of Net Neutrality.” Net neutrality, you see, is yet another way the Left hopes to silence their opposition—and Palermo calls on Obama’s Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to do exactly that.
Why I am against pure net neutrality
February 22, 2009 - link >>Adam O’Donnell, ZDNet
While it may sound like treating all ISP traffic equally is a good idea, mandating strict net neutrality hurts computer security for all of us.
Those of you who are tech heads and reside in the United States should all be familiar with the Net Neutrality debate, but for those of you who aren’t, the debate centers around an ISP’s ability to treat traffic differently depending upon application and purpose. The ISPs argue that without the ability to do some form of traffic shaping, they cannot provide network access at a reasonable cost to their customers. Customers are concerned that ISPs will use traffic shaping as an anti-competitive tool to block movie downloads, restrict traffic to non-partner sites, and keep new media down.
Net Neutrality means more government controls, what we need is Silicone TCP
February 21, 2009 - link >>Michael McDonnough, Nolan Chart
This legislation proposed in the USA is nothing more than a fear based reaction to an implied threat to internet democracy based on content controls proposed by the ISPs mainly to prevent degraded service that this type of bandwidth management system is designed to address.
The bottleneck at the edges of the internet where the ISPs are located provide a potential vector to greater regulate content in order to serve the best paying content providers interest it seems.
Welcome to Consumption-based Broadband
February 04, 2009 - link >>Stacey Higginbotham, CNNMoney.com
(gigaom.com)—The all-you-can-eat broadband buffet appears to be at an end as ISPs implement caps and metered pricing for broadband services. The stated goal is network management, but the real reason is to cash in on the increasing value of the web despite being a dumb pipe. Today, Time Warner said it would expand its metered broadband trials, and on next Monday Charter will detail plans to force subscribers to pay for what they download, with plans starting at 100 GB per month caps at lower speeds and no cap for the fastest speeds.
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