Saturday, October 6, 2007

How this will affect you

I found this great website that lists how a lack of net neutrality will affect many different groups, from political groups to teachers. It also lists what several companies, such as AT&T have planned, such as hike up prices. ISPs have already discriminated against websites. This site lists four instances, albeit two are from Canada. "In 2004, North Carolina ISP Madison River blocked their DSL customers from using any rival Web-based phone service. In April, Time Warner's AOL blocked all emails that mentioned www.dearaol.com -- an advocacy campaign opposing the company's pay-to-send e-mail scheme." So should we be worried? I'm not sure. Since there's only two cases since 2004, I don't think that's too bad. Canada has it worse than us here in the USA. It's an interesting site worth a look at.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Are there any state or federal court cases that deal with this topic...is there any state with legislation regarding it. What is the role of large cell phone carriers (Verizon, etc. text messaging...etc.). Is there a difference between market place free speech and academia?