[PLUG] Freedom to connect

[wes]

I think it's kind of a slippery slope deal. AOL tried this (rather
successfully for a while) where you paid for "net access" which only allowed
you to access AOL-controlled resources. There was a lot of smoke and mirrors
involved to try to keep people from finding out there was a bigger net out
there.

If some of the larger media corporations got together and mutually excluded
access to each others' resources, we could see a very big impact on the
effective size of the net we can reach. I agree that it is not currently
much of a problem, at least not in our country. but if it does become a
problem, it will become such a large problem so fast, that it's important
that we make very sure it never happens.

-wes

On Sun, May 10, 2009 at 11:02 PM, Ted Kubaska <tedkubaska at comcast.net>wrote:

> You know I did some reading about this today, and it seems to be tied
> up with "net neutrality" which right now seems to me to be a solution
> looking for a problem, rather than a problem. I guess, I mean, not a
> big deal ... more mole hill than mountain.
>
> But I'm willing to be educated if I got this wrong.
>   -ted
> On May 9, 2009, at 9:01 PM, Russell Senior wrote:
>
> >>>>>> "Ted" == Ted Kubaska <tedkubaska at comcast.net> writes:
> >
> > Ted> Has anyone had any dealing with "Freedom to Connect"?
> > Ted> http://freedom-to-connect.net/
> >
> > Yes, I went to it this year, back at the end of March.
> >
> > Ted> Specifically the "Homes with Tails" paper by Derek Slater ... and
> > Ted> the "glass roots" movement.
> >
> > Ted> Seems like good stuff but looking for some qualitative
> > Ted> comments. Thanks.
> >
> > I haven't actually read that paper, but I saw it, know generally what
> > it suggests, and I saw Derek Slater speak at F2C this year.
> >
> >
> > --
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> > russell at personaltelco.net
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