BLOGGERS TAKE ON TELECOMS GIANTS TO SAVE SPIRIT OF NET

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Dr. Jai Maharaj

Bloggers take on telecoms giants to save spirit of Net

By Stephen Foley in New York
The Independent
Friday, June 9, 2006

Campaigners across the political spectrum are massing
against plans to introduce "congestion charging" on the
World Wide Web, which they say could kill the spirit of
the internet.

An army of bloggers has been joined by celebrities
including the singer Moby and the founders of Google and
Microsoft to fight a decision in the US House of
Representatives that allows telecoms companies to charge
popular websites for priority access to the Web.

A law that would have enshrined the neutrality of the Net
was voted down by congressmen late on Thursday.

Telecom and cable companies are in effect being allowed
to erect toll booths along the information superhighway -
and individuals who post their own videos or blogs online
could find their websites confined to the internet's B-
roads or even blocked altogether.

More at:
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/science_technology/article754416.ece

Jai Maharaj
http://tinyurl.com/a5ljc
http://www.mantra.com/jai
Om Shanti
 
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Thomas Armagost

In message <20060609QtkZ7T4517QpN306j9S86Ns@Sh49X>,
Bloggers take on telecoms giants to save spirit of Net
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The internet has no spirit. It is technology. You and I have spirit.
By Stephen Foley in New York
The Independent
Friday, June 9, 2006

Campaigners across the political spectrum are massing
against plans to introduce "congestion charging" on the
World Wide Web, which they say could kill the spirit of
the internet.
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Technology cannot be killed. Are we really talking about porn here?
An army of bloggers
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Blogging about clogging.
has been joined by celebrities including the singer Moby
and the founders of Google and Microsoft to fight a
decision in the US House of Representatives that allows
telecoms companies to charge popular websites for priority
access to the Web.
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Uh-oh. Here comes The Phone Company. I guess they found out that you
can make free long distance calls over the internet.
A law that would have enshrined the neutrality of the Net
was voted down by congressmen late on Thursday.
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Enshrined neutrality? Like a pagoda, you mean?

"In December of 1970, Charles A. Petrik contacted the U.S. Navy and
suggested that a special communications network, which the Department
of Defense had built for use in the possiblitity of a nuclear attack,
could also be used during peace time."

<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet#Creation_of_the_Internet>

That doesn't sound very neutral to me. Did you know that U.S.
freeways were originally planned to be military highways?
Telecom and cable companies are in effect being allowed
to erect toll booths along the information superhighway -
and individuals who post their own videos or blogs online
could find their websites confined to the internet's B-
roads or even blocked altogether.
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You can kiss free e-mail goodbye when The Post Office finally defeats
the internet that it so hates. ;-)

Usenet and text blogs are beneath the radar of the telecoms. However,
streaming real time video on your home page could be a problem. Maybe
bandwidth will someday be regarded as a finite resource akin to MPG.

The bottom line is that you might have to pay for the excesses of
bandwidth guzzlers in the form of a fatter bill from your ISP. What
can you do about it? Don't waste bandwidth yourself. And code clean
HTML. No tailgating on the InfoBahn, please.
 
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silly

In message <20060611INLi90l7zRdu4GalZBII6l2@Wp3XH>,
"Spirit" is also defined as:

"the general atmosphere of a place or situation
and the effect that it has on people. . ."
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<http://wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=spirit>

Okay. Should we start making sacrifices to the spirit of the net? At
the Burning Man festival, maybe? An IBM mainframe could be ritually
slaughtered. Actually, tithing to EFF is probably a better idea.

The internet is constantly changing and growing. Usenet is dwarfed
and obscured these days. Can something that's rapidly evolving have
a timeless spirit?
 
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Thomas Armagost

Save the Internet <http://www.savetheinternet.com/>

Okay, I'm up to speed now, I think. Net neutrality will spare our
favorite web content from being totally submerged beneath a gigantic
raging torrent of "premium" bandwidth spew.

"The SavetheInternet.com Coalition is a real grassroots alliance of
organizations, citizens, businesses and bloggers that have banded
together to protect Internet freedom."

<https://secure.freepress.net/05/net_neutrality>

Consider tithing to them.
 
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Dr. Jai Maharaj

Dr. Jai Maharaj posted:
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Okay. Should we start making sacrifices to the spirit of the net? At
the Burning Man festival, maybe? An IBM mainframe could be ritually
slaughtered. Actually, tithing to EFF is probably a better idea.

The internet is constantly changing and growing. Usenet is dwarfed
and obscured these days. Can something that's rapidly evolving have
a timeless spirit?
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DejaNews and now Google who bought Deja are trying to make
USENET appear as a part of the web. Also, Google has made it easier
to search the newsgroups, albeit secondary to searching the web.
As for "timelessness", well, "time" can be seen as future turning
into the past. So timelessness would require that perception to end
or be severely modified in some manner.

Jai Maharaj
http://tinyurl.com/a5ljc
http://www.mantra.com/jai
Om Shanti
 
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Dr. Jai Maharaj

Save the Internet <http://www.savetheinternet.com/>

Okay, I'm up to speed now, I think. Net neutrality will spare our
favorite web content from being totally submerged beneath a gigantic
raging torrent of "premium" bandwidth spew.

"The SavetheInternet.com Coalition is a real grassroots alliance of
organizations, citizens, businesses and bloggers that have banded
together to protect Internet freedom."

<https://secure.freepress.net/05/net_neutrality>

Consider tithing to them.
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. . . check out the Who's Who list of leftist groups and
individuals who supported the net neutrality regulations
that were defeated:

Charter Members:

Free Press -- Coalition Coordinator
Professor Lawrence Lessig -- Stanford
Professor Timothy Wu -- Columbia
Gun Owners of America
Craig Newmark -- Craigslist.com Founder
Professor Glenn Reynolds -- aka Blogger Instapundit
MoveOn.org Civic Action
Consumers Union
American Library Association
Parents Television Council
Consumer Federation of America
Office of Communication of the United Church of Christ, Inc.
Public Knowledge
Common Cause
Christian Coalition of America
American Civil Liberties Union
National Association of State PIRGs (U.S. PIRG)
SEIU
Rethinking Schools
Parent-2-Parent
Center for Digital Democracy
Afro-Netizen
The Agonist
Alliance for Community Media
Amazing Kids
AcornActive Media Foundation
Association of Research Libraries
Association for Community Networking
Scott Bradner -- Harvard Technology Security Officer
Brave New Films
Californians Against Waste
CCTV Center for Media and Democracy
Center for Creative Voices in Media
Chicago Media Action
ColorofChange.org
Community HIV/AIDS Mobilization Project
Community Technology Centers
Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility
Consumer Action
Consumer Project on Technology
Professor Susan Crawford -- Online legal expert
CUWiN
Democracy in Action
Educause
Feminist Majority
FreeNetworks.org
Future of Music Coalition
Game Overdrive
Internet2
David Isenberg -- Harvard Berkman Center
Independent Press Association
Kansas City Anti-Violence Project
Media Access Project
Media Alliance
MediaChannel.org
Sascha Meinrath -- Community Internet Pioneer
Music for America
National Video Resources
New Organizing Institute
NYC Wireless
Ohio Community Computing Network
OpenPrivacy
Open Security Foundation
Personal Democracy Forum
Prometheus Radio Project
P2Pnet
Quicksilver Communications
Reclaim the Media
Scott Kurtz -- Cartoonist
The International Webcasting Association
The Service Roundtable -- Small Business Network
David Weinberger -- Harvard Berkman Center (Joho the Blog)
Working Assets

Source: http://www.savetheinternet.com/=coalition

Posted on 6/09/2006 by VRWCmember

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End of forwarded message

Jai Maharaj
http://tinyurl.com/a5ljc
http://www.mantra.com/jai
Om Shanti
 
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Daniel Mandic

Dr. Jai Maharaj said:
DejaNews and now Google who bought Deja are trying to make
USENET appear as a part of the web. Also, Google has made it easier
to search the newsgroups, albeit secondary to searching the web.
As for "timelessness", well, "time" can be seen as future turning
into the past. So timelessness would require that perception to end
or be severely modified in some manner.

Jai Maharaj
http://tinyurl.com/a5ljc
http://www.mantra.com/jai
Om Shanti
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I can install UUCP and my Provider can support so - plonk (who needs
google??)



Best Regards,

Daniel Mandic
 
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Dr. Jai Maharaj

Daniel Mandic said:
Dr. Jai Maharaj posted:
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I can install UUCP and my Provider can support so - plonk (who needs
google??) Best Regards, Daniel Mandic
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UUCP -- haven't used a UUCP feed since the early '90s. It will be
fun to get back to the "real" high technology. Those were the days.
On a related note, I still have my first Sinclair computer (and others).

Jai Maharaj
http://tinyurl.com/a5ljc
http://www.mantra.com/jai
Om Shanti
 
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Thomas Armagost

In message <20060611MNLlTI93B5Yh43IfG4d3QJ8@XIea1>,
. . . check out the Who's Who list of leftist groups and
individuals who supported the net neutrality regulations
that were defeated:
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Leftists? Gun Owners of America, Parents Television Council,
Christian Coalition of America, and Game Overdrive are leftists?

Former librarian Laura Bush should be told that the American Library
Association and the Association of Research Libraries are on board.
Internet2 is also on board. <http://internet2.edu/>

Liberal groups support net neutrality, too, of course.
 
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Al Klein

. . . check out the Who's Who list of leftist groups and
individuals who supported the net neutrality regulations
that were defeated:
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Gun Owners of America
Office of Communication of the United Church of Christ, Inc.
Christian Coalition of America
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Now there's a list of left-leaning organizations - some of them so far
to the left that they've come all the way around to the Rabid Reicht.
 
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