Wednesday, November 28, 2007

Not even they could stand it

Today I wandered on this post of "Hands off the Internet", a blogger or a group of bloggers that stand for "Internet Freedom". Before this morning I didn't know the difference between "Net Neutrality" and "Internet Freedom", but indeed there is. The first one talks about what the Internet should be, a democratic way to exchange information from one person to another, the second is about keeping the Government from regulating the ISPs (Internet Service Providers).

So indeed there is difference: one is about making sure that the message a person sends arrives with the same speed and same "priority" as any other message of any other person that uses that way to communicate, the other one is about making sure that the ISP are free to do what they think best. Can you see the difference here?

But with the post I read I found out that neither them could bare the fact that Comcast was delaying and stopping customers internet traffic. So, how come they don't agree anymore to their "Internet Freedom"? Do they still think ISP should be free to do anything they want on their network? And Comcast has 22% of the internet subscribers, which means a lot of people. It is in fact the biggest ISP in the US and the fact that they hijacked 22% of American’s internet traffic should make everyone (even the people of "Hands off the Internet") reflect about what just happened.

Are we going to let this happen again?


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