Threats to net freedom
Thursday, September 17th, 2009This broadband assault would reduce your choices and stifle the spread of innovative and independent ideas that we’ve come to expect online. It would shift the digital revolution into reverse.
Internet gatekeepers have already:
* Blocked services: In 2004, North Carolina ISP Madison River blocked their DSL customers from using any rival Web-based phone service.
* Blocked content: In 2005, Canada’s telephone giant Telus blocked customers from visiting a Web site sympathetic to the Telecommunications Workers Union during a contentious labor dispute.
If these media giants get their way, they’ll shut down the free flow of information and dictate how you use the Internet forever.