Whenever I read paragraphs like these, yanked from the Hartford Courant, I take note:
One challenge in any reconstruction, though, would be balancing the interests of various constituencies. The first time around, researchers were able to toil away in their labs quietly. Industry is playing a bigger role this time, and law enforcement is bound to make its needs for wiretapping known.
There’s no evidence they are meddling yet, but once any research looks promising, “a number of people [will] want to be in the drawing room,” said Jonathan Zittrain, a law professor affiliated with Oxford and Harvard universities. “They’ll be wearing coats and ties and spilling out of the venue.”
Get your Net Neutrality below the fold while you still can!
Do they want to rebuild the Internet for everyones’ benefit or will this be the first steps towards a conservative’s corporatist wet dream and extremely policed Internet?
The big telcoms have already shown a willingness to try and take control of the internet AND will sell out your right to privacy at the drop of an FBI letter.
Yeah… Ya gotta sleep with one effin’ eye open at all times in this modern America. Freedom ain’t Free, it’ll cost ya a lot of good sleep.
There is so much going on right now, I would hate for this to slip under the radar.
Who would have thought it!
Law enforcement is less and less about law, more and more about enforcement. Are these guys competing with the Mafia for market share?
But: Connecticut Man1, I saw that item too, though I forget where. You KNOW the internet is effective when they want to shut the whole thing down!
This fight is soon going to break out for real.
In some politicians cases they may actually be part of the mafia (see casino mob like hit in Abrahmoff scandal).
Every time we kill one effort to stifle the free speech on the internet they try and attack it in a new way. I read this and I think of what the telcoms have repeatedly tried to grab. And I really worry that they would gladly sell out our right to privacy in order to get what they want. They have already done that ilegally.
Be certain that if you have an opinion on this issue – or at least wish to have an understanding of this issue, that you check this out…
I sent this link to all of my family/friends/customers, etc.
See comment below… heh
Excellent and informative link… A Long video though. Kept it playing in the background while I surfed for a while today.
Thank you!