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 Government Snooping on its own people
Chilling, simply chilling. . .
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Human Rights Links
Links to articles about violating Human and Civil Rights and Liberties
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Other
Other articles of interest.
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"End-to-end, telcos, common carrier, and Lessig", by Greg DeKoenigsberg
(Phone companies lobbying to close open access to the Internet's power for the common man --dde)
http://www.livejournal.com/users/gregdek/2005/12/19/ |
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"Renewed Warning of Bandwidth Hoarding"
11/24/2005 Washington Post article, warning from Vinton Cerf, others, to Congress.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/11/23/AR2005112302200.html |
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"Restoring the Rule of Law"
This is an excellent speech made by Al Gore on January 16, 2006, regarding the egregious excesses of power of the office and administration of the President of the United States.
http://www.freepress.net/docs/gore-1-17-06.pdf |
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"Vint Cerf Speaking Out on Internet Neutrality"
Article from CircleID, including a 2005/11/09 letter this Founding Father of the Internet sent to Congress
http://www.circleid.com/posts/vint_cerf_speaking_out_on_internet_neutrality/ |
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2005: The year the US government undermined the internet
From The Register (UK) - "Biting the hand that feeds IT"
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/12/29/us_undermines_internet/print.html |
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BitTorrent: Shedding no tiers
Newsnight talks to BitTorrent inventor Bram Cohen, who is distinctly equivocal about fears of a two speed internet.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/newsnight/5017542.stm |
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Electronic Freedom Foundation
"Defending Freedom in the Digital World"
http://www.eff.org/ |
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NY Times- "Coming Soon to TV Land: The Internet, Actually"
Briefly discusses some ISP plans for a two-tiered Internet
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/07/technology/07video.html?pagewanted=print |
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Paul Kapustka's Blog
This blog has lots of comments about Net Neutrality
http://paulsblog.pulver.com/ |
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Telecom Hearings in Senate Commerce Committee
"If you're looking for the direct effect of the Internet on democracy, the webcasts of these U.S. Senate Commerce Committee hearings are a good find."
http://isen.com/blog/2006/01/telecom-hearings-in-senate_113673582460951522.html |
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The Assault on Network Neutrality
This page lists a number of Corporate White papers that discuss plans for "hijacking" the Internet, essentially adding toll-roads to what we have been accustomed to having for free. At risk is the principle of "Network Neutrality" - the principle that all Internet users can access or run the applications or devices of their choice.
http://www.democraticmedia.org/issues/netneutrality.html |
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USA Today- "Here's Hoping the Congress Keeps the Pipes Open"
Interesting article by Andrew Kantor - Columnist for USA Today
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/columnist/andrewkantor/2006-02-02-congress-open-pipes_x.htm |
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Video on the net is a solved problem, many times over
Interesting blog entry on the telecommunication industry's disingenuousness in making their claims to close down the openness and neutrality of today's Internet, by "Epeus" (Kevin Marks)
http://epeus.blogspot.com/2006_04_01_epeus_archive.html#114421992890384439 |
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What Part of "No Law" Don't You Understand?
A 10-year-old article by William Bennett Turner about the 1st Amendment and its (in)applicability to online communications. This excellent article discusses fundamental free-speech principles. It would be interesting to see how courts have interpreted them in the intervening 10 years between when this was written and now.
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/4.03/no.law_pr.html |
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What is Network Neutrality?
Here is one organization's definition...
http://www.freepress.net/deadend/=neutrality |
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