Net Neutrality
Net neutrality is the clear separation between Internet access and Internet content.
Sir Tim Berners-Lee is the guy who hand on heart can say "I invented the World Wide Web" so simply quoting him seems to be the best way to explain. He says the web should remain neutral and resist attempts to fragment it into different services. "What's very important from my point of view is that there is one web," "Anyone that tries to chop it into two will find that their piece looks very boring." "It's better and more efficient for us all if we have a separate market where we get our connectivity, and a separate market where we get our content. Information is what I use to make all my decisions. Not just what to buy, but how to vote," "There is an effort by some companies in the US to change this. There's an attempt to get to a situation where if I want to watch a TV station across the Internet, that TV station must have paid to transmit to me."
As always the Open Rights Group wiki has more on net neutrality.
Sir Tim Berners-Lee is the guy who hand on heart can say "I invented the World Wide Web" so simply quoting him seems to be the best way to explain. He says the web should remain neutral and resist attempts to fragment it into different services. "What's very important from my point of view is that there is one web," "Anyone that tries to chop it into two will find that their piece looks very boring." "It's better and more efficient for us all if we have a separate market where we get our connectivity, and a separate market where we get our content. Information is what I use to make all my decisions. Not just what to buy, but how to vote," "There is an effort by some companies in the US to change this. There's an attempt to get to a situation where if I want to watch a TV station across the Internet, that TV station must have paid to transmit to me."
As always the Open Rights Group wiki has more on net neutrality.
posted by Glyn Wintle at 4:10 PM
