Internet Freedom Day: This Year We Go to War for Net Neutrality
The loss of net neutrality this week was even bigger than expected. Read more about Internet Freedom Day: This Year We Go to War for Net Neutrality
CIS explores how changes in the architecture of computer networks affect the economic environment for innovation and competition on the Internet, and how the law should react to those changes. This work has lead us to analyze the issue of network neutrality, perhaps the Internet's most debated policy issue, which concerns Internet user's ability to access the content and software of their choice without interference from network providers.
The loss of net neutrality this week was even bigger than expected. Read more about Internet Freedom Day: This Year We Go to War for Net Neutrality
Imagine that you are participating in a protest on a university campus. The campus police ask everyone to leave. Some protestors refuse to move, and suddenly they are doused with pepper spray by campus police. You pull out your cell phone and start recording, asking protestors to describe what happened. After some editing, you post the video to YouTube. But according to the two federal shield laws being considered by Congress, you likely would not qualify as a journalist—and consequently would not enjoy the right to protect your sources. Read more about Protecting Journalism in the Digital Era
Cross-posted from Wired Opinion.
Net neutrality is a dead man walking. The execution date isn’t set, but it could be days, or months (at best). And since net neutrality is the principle forbidding huge telecommunications companies from treating users, websites, or apps differently — say, by letting some work better than others over their pipes — the dead man walking isn’t some abstract or far-removed principle just for wonks: It affects the internet as we all know it. Read more about We’re About to Lose Net Neutrality — And the Internet as We Know It