16
Jan
2014

Net Neutrality

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Net Neutrality Just Got Sucker-Punched. Will Madison Avenue Get the Bill?

Why You Should Be Freaking Out About The End Of Net Neutrality: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/01/14/net-neutrality_n_4597831.html
Feds Can’t Enforce Net Neutrality: What This Means For You: http://www.npr.org/blogs/alltechconsidered/2014/01/14/262454310/feds-cant-enforce-net-neutrality-what-this-means-for-you?utm_content=socialflow&utm_campaign=nprfacebook&utm_source=npr&utm_medium=facebook
Internet has been the most democratic tool in the last two decades. Trough the Arab Spring, anti-Putin blogs, Erdogan’s Turkey, my home country Bulgaria: people have had a viable voice to speak, hear and share, despite government-own, Goebbels-like mass media, who thus looses the opportunity to control public opinion. .
That era is only logical to wind down. In my home country, the Murdock-like media owner, as well as ruling-parties’ apparatchiks pay “trolls” to go and muddle the blog sections under online articles and the social media field.
In the U.S., the same process takes different “democratic” way: the big companies are lobbying and buying their way of silencing the Internet right of people to be able to voice, speak and share their opinion.

6 Comments on Net Neutrality

  2. Plamen Miltenoff
    June 3, 2014 at 7:33 pm (11 years ago)

    http://www.igi-global.com/newsroom/archive/end-free-internet/1861/
    The End of Free Internet
    the Federal Communications Commission voted 3-2 to open for public debate regarding new rules meant to guarantee a free and open Internet. The recent net neutrality debate is a result of the FCC proposal permitting Internet service providers to set up “fast lanes” for Web sites to pay for quicker access to content.

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  4. Plamen Miltenoff
    July 12, 2014 at 4:18 pm (10 years ago)

    AT&T’s Latest Move Should Have Net Neutrality Advocates Freaking Out
    http://www.businessinsider.com/att-sponsored-data-2014-7

    sponsored data gives an advantage to rich companies that can afford to pay AT&T for such a plan and reduces the chances of smaller competitors creating innovative new services. It may be good for the consumer in the short term, but it could be a major hurtle to competition down the road, especially as the majority of computing shifts to mobile devices.

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