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Thursday Jun 22, 2006
Tim Berners Lee: Net Neutrality: This is serious
When Tim Berners Lee one of the few people on the web who needs no introduction (he mostly invented it) thinks something is serious, on had better watch out. See his latest Blog Entry.
His definition of Net Neutrality is simple
Freedom of connection, with any application, to any party, is the fundamental social basis of the Internet, and, now, the society based on it.And as he says, this does not mean you should not be able to pay more for better service. Now are the mobile phone operators not clearly violating this principle with their clauses forbidding one to use P2P services on their 3G connections?
This is a debate that is not bringing small people to the table. Lawrence Lessig has been very concerned too.
- Ars Technica article on the subject.
- Daniel J. Weitzner of MIT: The Neutral Internet: An Information Architecture for Open Societies
Posted at 05:06PM Jun 22, 2006 [permalink/trackback] by Henry Story in General |
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