Blawgosphere pay attention: AT & T might have lost its mind
I try very hard to keep this blog focused on criminal law issues. Sometimes, however, I see something that just blows my mind.
AT & T is considering filtering internet content. Odd, in light of the fact that Comcast might just get hit bigtime. For more on net neutrality (including: “What is it?”) go here.
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about 2 years ago
Too many people don’t know what Net Neutrality is (or understand it’s importance)
In a nutshell, without Net Neutrality, small sites such at this one will be put on a lower tier, than large sites willing to pay, for example, I’ll use Fox News and Disney.
So when Fox News and Disney are getting a lot of hits, their traffic won’t slow down, as it normally would, because they will be on a higher tier.
Bandwidth will instead be stripped away from lower tier sites, like this one, making it run slow or even inaccessible, so Fox News and Disney can satisfy an influx of hits, as they pay to be on a higher tier.
In the long run, corporate owned, big media (Fox News) will stifle alternative sources of news (Your local news blogs) by rendering them slow and inaccessible, thus creating a 1st amendment issue.
That’s how I see this issue, correct me if I’m wrong.
about 2 years ago
Really? I hadn’t heard that before. That is truly disturbing.