Wednesday, May 10, 2006
Net Neutrality: an international issue
Ethan Zuckerman puts an international spin on network neutrality in the May 2006 issue of Inc. Magazine. [The article is not on the Web yet, if ever.] Ethan writes, in part,
Ethan's article is on some network somewhere, but not the one your connection connects to. Here's hoping this is the exception, not the rule.
Meanwhile, find the May edition of Inc at a news stand near you -- Ethan's article is on Page 29. You should be able to read it before the news stand attendant notices you're konsuming kontent.
[Network Neutrality] is under assault. Foreign countries have led the charge. Saudi Arabia blocks content that runs counter to the clerics' interpretation of Islam. China bars its citizens' access to sites created by, among others, practitioners of Falun Gong. [Apparently China also blocks pulver.com and pulvermedia.com -- David I] What results is the fragmentation of the Internet. The network we've grown accustomed to over the past decade is, in a very real sense, becoming multiple Internets, because the Internet you encounter from within China is different than the Internet you encounter in the United States . . .
Ethan's article is on some network somewhere, but not the one your connection connects to. Here's hoping this is the exception, not the rule.
Meanwhile, find the May edition of Inc at a news stand near you -- Ethan's article is on Page 29. You should be able to read it before the news stand attendant notices you're konsuming kontent.
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Comments:
Thanks for the plug, David. According to Inc's website, "The full contents of the May 2006 issue will be available online on May 23, 2006." So you can wait patiently or try your newsstand trick... :-)
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