Haves and Have-Nots
The “net neutrality” debate has been a hot topic today, now that a Senate committee has approved a bill to allow the telcos to compete aggressively with the cable companies. An amendment to prohibit internet service providers from limiting access based on site content or other criteria was proposed but rejected. Here’s the Forbes Magazine article.
The fear from many people (including most everyone currently creating any type of content for the internet) is that this will allow ISPs to provide premium bandwidth and services to high-paying business customers, while mere individuals only have access to more limited connections.
Chris Pirillo has a good summary here, and it includes links to Todd Cochrane’s sky-is-falling reaction and the perspective of Tim Berners-Lee, the man who invented the internet. (He later changed his name to Al Gore, of course.)
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