{"id":106,"date":"2006-06-01T17:09:00","date_gmt":"2006-06-01T21:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/zeroday\/2006\/06\/01\/net-neutrality\/"},"modified":"2006-06-01T17:17:45","modified_gmt":"2006-06-01T21:17:45","slug":"net-neutrality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/zeroday\/2006\/06\/01\/net-neutrality\/","title":{"rendered":"Net Neutrality"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I can see both sides of this issue.  I won&#8217;t  comment publicly but will paste this interesting tidbit from savetheinternet.com:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.savetheinternet.com\">Congress is pushing a law that would abandon the Internet&#8217;s First Amendment &#8212; a principle called Network Neutrality that prevents companies like AT&amp;T, Verizon and Comcast from deciding which Web sites work best for you &#8212; based on what site pays them the most. If the public doesn&#8217;t speak up now, our elected officials will cave to a multi-million dollar lobbying campaign.<\/a><\/p>\n<p> For the record I wasn&#8217;t aware the internet had a first amendment (nor any amendments&#8230; or a constitution with which to amend) so seriously read up on this issue before forming an opinion.  Both sides are obviously putting a little spin on things.<\/p>\n<p>More interesting things from the (savetheinternet.org) FAQ.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/savetheinternet.com\/=faq\"><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>In 2004, North Carolina ISP Madison River blocked their DSL customers from using any rival Web-based phone service.\n<li>In 2005, Canada&#8217;s telephone giant Telus blocked customers from visiting a Web site sympathetic to the Telecommunications Workers Union during a labor dispute.\n<li>Shaw, a big Canadian cable TV company, is charging an extra $10 a month to subscribers in order to &#8220;enhance&#8221; competing Internet telephone services.\n<li>In April, Time Warner&#8217;s AOL blocked all emails that mentioned www.dearaol.com \u2014 an advocacy campaign opposing the company&#8217;s pay-to-send e-mail scheme.\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I can see both sides of this issue. I won&#8217;t comment publicly but will paste this interesting tidbit from savetheinternet.com: Congress is pushing a law that would abandon the Internet&#8217;s First Amendment &#8212; a principle called Network Neutrality that prevents companies like AT&amp;T, Verizon and Comcast from deciding which Web sites work best for you [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":214,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[272,271],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-digital-warfare","category-rights-online"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/zeroday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/zeroday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/zeroday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/zeroday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/214"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/zeroday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/zeroday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/zeroday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/zeroday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/zeroday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}