No Tolls on The Internet
am 08.06.2006 von Aktenvermerk
Article by Lawrence Lessig and Robert W. McChesney on Net Neutrality, and why it’s so important a concept:
Net neutrality means simply that all like Internet content must be treated alike and move at the same speed over the network. The owners of the Internet’s wires cannot discriminate. This is the simple but brilliant “end-to-end” design of the Internet that has made it such a powerful force for economic and social good: All of the intelligence and control is held by producers and users, not the networks that connect them.
The protections that guaranteed network neutrality have been law since the birth of the …
New Trends in Telecommunications 1 - Voice over Internet Protocol
Die neue Mehrsprachigkeit / One of the most important innovations which is likely to cause a revolution in the area of electronic communications is Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP). To explain it in a simple way it is making phone-calls over internet. I am sure that most of…
Lawrence Lessig on Net Neutrality
Handakte WebLAWg / My Senate Commerce Committee for the Net Neutrality hearing is here. Quelle: lessig.org vom 10.2.2006…
Social network analysis in Facebook
Obiter Dictum / From time to time I like to dabble in social network analysis. Now that Facebook has opened itself up to programmatic access, I thought I’d do some spelunking to see what I could learn. Here are a couple of questions I’d like to answer a…
General principles on regulating telecommunication markets in the EU (commenting on concerns regarding Deutsche Telekom)
Die neue Mehrsprachigkeit / The basic feature of the EU regulatory framework for electronic communications is that markets must be regulated. It is obvious that through liberalisation of, for example, fixed voice telephony markets no competition will occur by itself. The reas…
New Trends in Telecommunications 2 – Convergence
Die neue Mehrsprachigkeit / The most important implication of the technological innovations in the area of electronic communications (especially of the described proliferation VoIP technologies) is that the existing markets will converge in one market. Currently there are mark…
Lessig Audio Interview
Handakte WebLAWg / Cory Doctorow: The Digital Village podcast conducted a wide-ranging, 45-minute phone interview with Lawrence Lessig, the founder of Creative Commons and author of such important books on copyright and technology as Code and Free Culture. We intervi…
» No Tolls on The Internet
Congress is about to cast a historic vote on the future of the Internet. It will decide whether the Internet remains a free and open technology fostering innovation, economic growth and democratic communication, or instead becomes the property of cab…
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