This is Winning
Schmidt on China, DOJ, Facebook, Apple: If we were losing, we would not have these problems; http://j.mp/cHNKmg
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Counter-revolution
Economist: The internet has been a great unifier. Powerful forces are threatening to balkanise it; http://j.mp/a3Rwse
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The Net Was Never Really Neutral
Shapiro: Why the net was never really neutral anyway and how both sides are missing the point; http://j.mp/dmB7ja
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FCC and Net Neutrality
Zittrain: There are moves FCC could make to create net neutrality rules in absence of a new statute; http://j.mp/cAI6qf
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Being Half-open?
Schonfeld on Google-Verizon: Wireless is not different. You can not be half-open; http://j.mp/bGw6Ib
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Would Media Prefer a Less Open Internet? Yes.
Diller on Google-Verizon proposal: Does not preserve net neutrality, full stop, or anything like it; http://j.mp/cJNRyh
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NYT: “Most media companies have stayed mute on the subject, but in an interview this week, the media mogul Barry Diller called the proposal a sham. … Mr. Diller asserted that the Google-Verizon proposal ‘doesn’t preserve net neutrality, full stop, or anything like it.’ Asked if other media executives were staying quiet because they stand to gain from a less open Internet, he said simply, ‘Yes.’“
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Net Neutrality: Facebook vs. Google
Facebook breaks with Google: continues to support net neutrality for landline and wireless networks; http://j.mp/a4Yvzb
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Google vs. Net Neutrality?
Wired: Why Google became a carrier-humping, net neutrality surrender monkey; http://j.mp/9shFsJ (via @Siegfried.Hirsch)
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Google + Verizon vs. Net Neutrality?
Jarvis on the Google-Verizon framework: Mobile is the Internet, will soon become a meaningless word; http://j.mp/dzpbQP
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Mobile Net Neutrality
Internet traffic is expected to shift to congestion-prone mobile networks: impact on net neutraliy; http://j.mp/cbwyCk
Economist: “The first internet boom, a decade and a half ago, resembled a religious movement. Omnipresent cyber-gurus, often framed by colourful PowerPoint presentations reminiscent of stained glass, prophesied a digital paradise in which not only would commerce be frictionless and growth exponential, but democracy would be direct and the nation-state would no longer exist. One, John-Perry Barlow, even penned ‘A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace’. … First, governments are increasingly reasserting their sovereignty. … Second, big IT companies are building their own digital territories, where they set the rules and control or limit connections to other parts of the internet. Third, network owners would like to treat different types of traffic differently, in effect creating faster and slower lanes on the internet. – It is still too early to say that the internet has fragmented into “internets”, but there is a danger that it may splinter along geographical and commercial boundaries. … China is by no means the only country erecting borders in cyberspace. The Australian government plans to build a firewall to block material showing the sexual abuse of children and other criminal or offensive content. … Discussion of these proprietary platforms is only beginning. A lot of ink, however, has already been spilt on another form of balkanisation: in the plumbing of the internet. Most of this debate, particularly in America, is about ‘net neutrality‘. … If, however, the internet continues to go the other way, this would be bad news. Should the network become a collection of proprietary islands accessed by devices controlled remotely by their vendors, the internet would lose much of its ‘generativity’, warns Harvard’s Mr Zittrain. Innovation would slow down and the next Amazon, Google or Facebook could simply be, well, Amazon, Google or Facebook.“