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Canadian ISPs are setting monthly bandwidth caps and charging $2 per GB after that, making it cheaper to transfer data by mailing expensive SSD hard-drives. If it can happen in America's hat, what's stopping it from happening here?
Tech Buzz Right now is a crucial time for Net Neutrality. Here are some perspectives from around the Web, and you can make your own voice heard on the issue at Save the Internet.
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The net neutrality rule will fall drastically short.
Google's rise to power and its recent privacy issues, as only the Taiwanese CGI treatment could depict it. Featuring Eric Schmidt toasting wine with the devil!
http://thehill.com/blogs/hillicon-valley/technology/11410...
They're arguing that “the government would be thwarting the free-speech rights of providers such as AT&T, Verizon and Comcast.” Does this drive anyone else crazy?
http://www.alfranken.com/index.php/splash/netneutrality
Stop jacking off about Keanu Reeves and Antwon Dodson for just one day. Sign Al Franken's Petition to Save Net Neutrality. Only 34,000 people so far.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2010/aug/05/gogle-de...
Search giant denies deal with US telco Verizon allowing the telecoms company to prioritise the order and speed in which it delivers content to users
http://www.cnn.com/2010/OPINION/08/05/franken.net.neutral...
“Our free speech rights are under assault — not from the government but from corporations seeking to control the flow of information in America.” — Al Franken
“Tonight I want to tell you, that I believe that net neutrality is the first amendment issue of our time.”
Tech Buzz Ruh-Roh. The status blog for 4Chan (the evil heart of the Internet) is reporting that they have been “explicitly blocked” by Verizon. Two big things this means if it's deliberate: 1) We're entering some uncomfortable territory where ISPs block sites for subjective reasons. 2) 4Chan will have their revenge!!1 For great justice? Come, on, guys, please? I'm bored. (Via Scott.)
Tech Buzz Tania Derveaux is offering to have sex with every virgin who defends net neutrality. Her quest is to “wage war with love” in defense of free speech and internet freedom. Any virgin who can prove that they defend net neutrality is eligible. However, the rules forbid any “surprise buttsex,” and services can be denied for hygiene reasons.
At a town hall style meeting in Portland, Maine today a woman…
Here we have Conan O'Brien shamelessly (and adorably) exploiting…
