Recently, members of the Facebook Cause for Net Neutrality made a very populat video about information they had received alleging that ISP's are secretly collaborating to end the internet as we know it. After their video went viral on Digg and YouTube, employees of Bell Canada and TELUS confirmed that cable and telecom giants are seeking to package websites into subscription services, charging extra fees for any website that is not part of the package.
Read more »How can we enable quality of service on the Internet?
Right now everything's a best efforts, throw everything through at the same time in the same way approach, but aren't there possibilities where prioritizing some traffic over others can be a great thing?
For example, creating a separate dedicated channel for your VoIP traffic so that calls aren't degraded whenever someone else in the house starts using P2P.
Is there any potential for a future where allowing some traffic to be prioritized over others to be a net positive for consumers, app developers, and network operators?
Read more »Is net neutrality essential for democracy?
Tim Berners-Lee once told technology journalist John Markoff that “the neutrality of the Net is a medium essential for democracy.” Do the other panelists agree? What would be the repercussions of creating different versions of the Web that were paid for by servers? Why can’t there be more than one version of the Web – the free web and the commercial Web?
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