Network Neutrality

[palerider]

Some of you have probably already heard about this, but for those of you who have not here is a very short version.

Big corporations like AT&T, Verizon and several other large communication giants are spending millions and millions of dollars on a lobbying campaign in Washington do away with net neutrality.

What this means is instead of an open internet to all, the communication giants will decide which internet sites they will make available, which in most cases will mean the sites that will pay the most to them. The only way to stand up against such a huge amount of money being thrown at your local representative is to let them know that as a voting public, we will throw their asses out of their cushy 6 digit income job next election if they let this bullshit go through.

More info at:

http://savetheinternet.com/

This is a very big deal to anybody that ever uses the internet and not a lot of poeple are aware it is even going on.

What are your thoughts?

 

[storydude1]

It's already in place.

ISP's select content, and delete content they do not like.

Seeing as the innerweb was FIRST AND FORMOST a MILITARY Comm. netowrk, I think one has no right to bitch.


Same thing with the Wiretapping of Public conversations. You use a Wired network, or cellular network, you HAVE NO RIGHT TO PRIVACY. Cell is broadcast, and wired is owned by a company.

I know that when Italk on the phone, I expect NO privacy, due to the fact that I'm using Verizon;s connection, Verizon;s wires, and Verizon's switches to complete that call.

 

[palerider]

Right now, an ISP is your path onto the internet. Once on the internet you are free to go to any site you like, unless you are using the ISP's browser then they cannot limit you.

If this bill passes then the ISP can then act like a gatekeeper deciding which sites are going to be allowed. If you try to go to a site that by choice of the AT&T, Verizon or whoever your ISP goes through, is not going to be available then you will get a generic screen saying this site is not available to your network.

Network neutrality means your ISP has to stay neutral and you can go to any damn site you feel like, If neutrality goes away you can only go to the sites the ISP chooses.

 

[DeathShadow]

Right now, an ISP is your path onto the internet. Once on the internet you are free to go to any site you like, unless you are using the ISP's browser then they cannot limit you.

If this bill passes then the ISP can then act like a gatekeeper deciding which sites are going to be allowed. If you try to go to a site that by choice of the AT&T, Verizon or whoever your ISP goes through, is not going to be available then you will get a generic screen saying this site is not available to your network.

Network neutrality means your ISP has to stay neutral and you can go to any damn site you feel like, If neutrality goes away you can only go to the sites the ISP chooses.

This would only feasibly be plausible and regulated by enacting filters on the domain name system level. Any web server would still be able to be contacted since DNS and IP methods of resolving a web server are completely separate. The DNS system is in place as fiscal human luxury and we don’t need the .com, .net, .org, etc... addresses to access these sites. Unless the ISPs started filtering these sites on an IP level (this would be VERY VERY hard to do since all IPs are LEASED and subject to change) there would be no real way to delegate who goes where.

What does this mean? This means that for those of us who know what we are doing we will still be able to go where the hell we want.

I don't see this happening though... This goes against the entire ideology of the World Wide Web.

IMO ISPs can already “filter” sites if they really didn’t want you to go some place. But as I said above only on a DNS level could they feasibly do so.

 

[storydude1]

Right now, an ISP is your path onto the internet. Once on the internet you are free to go to any site you like, unless you are using the ISP's browser then they cannot limit you.

If this bill passes then the ISP can then act like a gatekeeper deciding which sites are going to be allowed. If you try to go to a site that by choice of the AT&T, Verizon or whoever your ISP goes through, is not going to be available then you will get a generic screen saying this site is not available to your network.

Network neutrality means your ISP has to stay neutral and you can go to any damn site you feel like, If neutrality goes away you can only go to the sites the ISP chooses.

Again, Companies computers YOU are using to access the innerweb. Compaines reserve the right to censor, or control what is on the computers THEY own.

What reason of privacy, or anonomity do you epect?