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...prohibit the FCC from taking future actions as an interloper in the Internet Service Provider-user interaction. Because of this, the FCC has potentially lost the power to stop ISP’s like Comcast from discriminating against its customers by charging different prices for accessing different content...

Author: By The Crimson Staff | Title: The Internet is Ours | 4/15/2010 | See Source »

This opportunity for discrimination is antithetical to both the theory and principles undergirding the Internet, which represents decentralized democracy in the abstract. It operates on principles of freedom and openness, mandating that all content on the Internet must be treated as equal and should be equally accessible to all users...

Author: By The Crimson Staff | Title: The Internet is Ours | 4/15/2010 | See Source »

...issuing a ruling that weakens the FCC’s power to enforce net neutrality, the court has made feasible a scenario in which ISPs like Comcast can charge users different prices for accessing different content. Thus, users who pay for access to the Internet would be subject to the vagaries of the market—Comcast could choose to charge customers more for access to sites that competitors own, like Time Warner’s CNN.com, while charging less for sites in which it holds a stake, like Hulu.com...

Author: By The Crimson Staff | Title: The Internet is Ours | 4/15/2010 | See Source »

...Clinton Administration, did not mince words with respect to those memos and the Administration that generated them. Rather, she spoke openly and critically about what she saw as the excesses of the Bush lawyers. Writing in a blog post three years ago, for example, she decried the "shockingly flawed content" of one of the memos, writing that it encouraged "horrific acts" and lamenting, "Where is the outrage, the public outcry?!" (See the top contenders to succeed Justice John Paul Stevens...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Obama Backed Down on an Embattled Nominee | 4/14/2010 | See Source »

Despite those restrictions, the Internet in China roils with debate over current events. China now has an estimated 384 million Internet users, more than the total population of the U.S. That size, combined with the growing popularity of interactive applications that allow users to generate their own content, has placed great strain on censors' ability to restrict the flow of sensitive information. Often news happens and discussion spreads widely before censors have a chance to decide how to manage the subject. "In this war, the censor is obviously not winning," says Xiao Qiang, the director of the China Internet Project...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Great Firewall: China's Web Users Battle Censorship | 4/13/2010 | See Source »

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