RSS Feed
Twitter
Over the weekend, a swarm of allegations hit the Internet to the effect that AT&T was blocking access to the the 4chan web site. This report from Techcrunch was fairly representative:
As if AT&T wasn’t already bad enough. In an act that is sure to spark internet rebellions everywhere, AT&T has apparently declared war on the [...]
Archive for July, 2009
Another Net Neutrality Meltdown
July 27th, 2009 
Richard Bennett 
Posted in 
DNS Redirection: Threat or Menace?
July 10th, 2009 Brett Glass An RFC (“request for comment”) recently submitted by Comcast — viewable here — seems to have induced apoplexy among a relatively small number of folks who believe that the Internet’s precious bodily fluids must at all costs conform to their very strict definition of purity. The topic of the RFC: redirection of Internet traffic bound [...]
Is Broadband a Civil Right?
July 1st, 2009 Richard Bennett Sometimes you have to wonder if people appreciate the significance of what they’re saying. On Huffington Post this morning, I found an account of a panel at the Personal Democracy Forum gathering on the question of who controls the Internet’s optical core. The writer, Steve Rosenbaum, declares that Broadband is a Civil Right:
If the internet [...]
