NET NEUTRALITY
Clare Cooney | 02.07.2006 17:56 | Indymedia | Repression | Technology
In America at the moment, there is legislation being debated which threatens the free and easy movement of traffic on the internet. And, in typical fashion, what's starting over there, is now coming over here.
see
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and
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for details.
The big telecoms and media are pushing for a two tier system - what this will mean is you can either have a dreadful slow service or you will have to pay - over and above your dial up / broadband charges - to send emails, post to blogs etc. Sites would be either painfully slow or prohibitively expensive to operate under such a system.
There is no good reason for this to happen. If it's costing the telecoms too much to operate, they could raise their charges a little which would balance out across net users.
But the scheme being proposed will favour business traffic over personal and slow down small sites and groups to a virtual standstill.
There is a huge campaign in the USA over this but the thing is just kicking off over here.
It's too important to ignore, so I decided to start a campaign to try and stop this.
I would very much appreciate it if you would publicise the petition site.
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thank you all
Clare
Clare Cooney
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Must include the world outside the conglomerates and get UNO to act on this
02.07.2006 19:17
Let us also not misrepresent the huge numbers of ordinary peoples of the Asian continent by miscasting them as just the conglomerate-codes of China and India.
In both China and India, the overwhelming numbers of peoples are deprived of access and economic capacity.
The issues of the two continents of Asia and Africa are substantially different from those that are envisaged in the post by Clare. I wonder if she would extend her parameters and consider those wider issues which are very much linked with any effective opposition to the particular piece of USA legislation that in fact typifies a trend that covers non-'internet' aspects of economic and social control and denial.
The realities across the African continent cannot be addressed by typically racist tokenistic gestures attributable to the likes of Geldof.
The whole world needs to be involved in defence of rights.
Are we ready and willing to go forward along these lines?
Any campaign against information repression must start with the premiss that the world, our planet, is bigger than the limits plotted by the multi-nationals and the conglomerates who on this issue have been shown to have disproportionate control. The United Nations Organisation istle needs to be active. Even though the recent UNO-linked initiative on information democracy was sabotaged by the very interests who want to restrict this to their liens, we, the whole world and its peoples, would be better off if the realities of the world outside of the military-industrial complexes based in North America and Western Europe are included.
Let us also not misrepresent the huge numbers of ordinary peoples of the Asian continent by miscasting them as just the conglomerate-codes of China and India.
In both China and India, the overwhelming numbers of peoples are deprived of access and economic capacity.
The issues of the two continents of Asia and Africa are substantially different from those that are envisaged in the post by Clare. I wonder if she would extend her parameters and consider those wider issues which are very much linked with any effective opposition to the piece of legislation that in fact typifies a trend that covers non-'internet' aspects of economic and social control and denial.
The realities across the African continent cannot be addressed by typically racist tokenistic gestures attributable to the likes of Geldof.
The whole world needs to be involved in defence of rights.
Are we ready and willing to go forward along these lines?
Muhammad Haque
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http://uk.geocities.com/aadhikardailyonline/today.html